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Outlook: The wild ride of a Tamil comic book pioneer

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Picture: Vijayan Soundrapandian

10/11/2020 GMT

The wild ride of a Tamil comic book pioneer

BBC World Service - Outlook, The wild ride of a Tamil comic book pioneer

The Indian comic book enthusiast bringing his favourite characters to a Tamil audience

Indian comic book enthusiast Vijayan Soundrapandian has been working for decades to bring his favourite characters to Tamil Nadu.

This edition of Outlook is devoted to the impact of comic books and three remarkable journeys taken by artists and publishers who fell in love with comics as children.

Indian comic enthusiast Vijayan Soundrapandian has been working to bring his favourite characters to audiences in Tamil Nadu. His company Lion-Muthu Comics translates some of the world's most famous comics into Tamil. 

In 2017 Outlook reporter Daniel Gross went to South Africa to meet cartoonist Mogorosi Motshumi. Mogorosi witnessed the worst of apartheid, and in the 1970s and 80s, was one of the only black artists using comics to document township life.

And we stay in the Outlook archive by revisiting an interview Emily did with Chinese-American comic creator Gene Luen Yang, he's the author behind the first Chinese Superman. 

Main Image: Vijayan Soundrapandian    
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