Session for the Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival in association with Times of India at Oxford Bookstore organized by AISHEE.
The Members of the panel : Debkumar Mitra, Sarbajit Sen,Kaushik Majumder and Pinaki De.
Illustrated Literature is a hybrid narrative medium in which images and text work together to tell a story. It can take various forms, including fiction written for adults or children, magazine fiction, comic strips, and picture books.
Illustrated Literature combines visual and verbal narratives in a book format, most often aimed at young children. The images in picture books use a range of media such as oil paints, acrylics, watercolour, pencil, and computer graphics among others.
Illustrated Literature is a medium used to express ideas via images, often combined with text or other visual information.
Illustrated Literature sometimes takes the form of Comics. It frequently takes the form of juxtaposed sequences of panels of images. Often textual devices such as speech balloons, captions indicating dialogue, narration, sound effects, or other information. Size and arrangement of panels contribute to narrative pacing. Cartooning and similar forms of illustration are the most common image-making means in comics; fumetti is a form which uses photographic images.
Common forms of Illustrated Literature include comic strips, editorial and gag cartoons, and comic books. Since the late 20th century, bound volumes such as graphic novels, comics albums, and tankōbon have become increasingly common, and online webcomics have proliferated in the 21st century.
On the broadest level of illustrated book communication there is the story or narrative: what happens. However, a comic book does not visually, or even verbally, present each moment of action in the narrative. Certain moments of prime action from the narrative are selected by the writer and/or artist and encapsulated in a frame (a unit of comic book communication that is called a panel, irrespective of whether or not there are actual panel borders).The rhetorical act of creating a comic book consists of encapsulation, layout, and composition.
Kaushik Majumder took us through the short history of the Bengali Illustrated Literature. Kaushik spoke about the origin and development of Bengali Comics and graphic art from Nineteenth Century to Blog-age comics, its trend and will touch its memorable milestones.Kaushik has done pioneering work on History and evolution of world as well as Bengali comics His research on World Comics has been published recently by Lalmati named Comics Itibritto (2015).He is one of the most significant comics researcher in Bengal.
Sarbajit Sen spoke from his personal experience about the comics scene in Bengal and will reflect on his own favourite graphic artist from Bengal — Mayukh Choudhury.Sarbajit is one of the pioneers in sequential graphic narratives in India. He is a guest faculty with NID Ahmedabad for conducting Comic Book workshops with students of animation film design. He created comic strips and cartoons for some leading dailies in Kolkata, including The Statesman, The Economic Times and Aaajkal for more than a decade. His 4-page graphic narrative – on climate disorder – got the National award as the Best Comics in 1994.
Pinaki De located book illustrations (including children book illustration) in Bengal within a global context. He will also participate in deliberations associated with comics.Pinaki is an illustrator and graphic designer who have worked regularly with national and international publishers like Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Pan Picador, Hachette, Westland, OUP, Routledge, Orient Blackswan, Roli, Sage, Primus, Zubaan, Rupa and many others. His design and layout grace about 350 books including those by eminent authors like Ruskin Bond, Kunal Basu, Arvind Adiga, Anita Nair, Mahesh Dattani and Nemai Ghosh.
Debkumar Mitra illustrated the present state of comics/graphic narrative in Bengal and tried to map it in a global context. Debkumar is madly passionate about comics and visual arts. His special area of interest is alternative comics across the globe. He is a trained artist but chose Mathematics as his vocation.Debkumar is a Gordon M. Fisher Fellow from the University of Toronto, Canada. He has published Mindstretch (a book on mathematical puzzles and miscellany), The Mad, Mad world of Elections with Sudhir Dar, Penguin India Fact File, Business Traveller's Guide and States of India – all of them with Penguin India.
The rising popularity of the Illustrated Literature as an internal communication device for designers has increased our ability to engage our stakeholders as we build interfaces. Social service agencies looking to provide services to hard-to-reach groups like immigrants, cultural minorities, and the poor have taken pride in innovative outreach methods. In situations where traditional printed matter is a barrier, graphical methods can be used very effectively to communicate with audiences.
From guerilla theatre to testimonials, posters to graphic instructions, users have benefited from alternative communication methods, particularly in situations where education or cultural barriers make it difficult for people to access services important to their well-being and safety. In some cases, the comic book format has been used as a way to help people get access to critical legal help.
Aloke Kumar
_____________________
Talk on Bengali Comics at KLF'16
by Dr. Kaushik Majumdar
The Members of the panel : Debkumar Mitra, Sarbajit Sen,Kaushik Majumder and Pinaki De.
Illustrated Literature is a hybrid narrative medium in which images and text work together to tell a story. It can take various forms, including fiction written for adults or children, magazine fiction, comic strips, and picture books.
Illustrated Literature combines visual and verbal narratives in a book format, most often aimed at young children. The images in picture books use a range of media such as oil paints, acrylics, watercolour, pencil, and computer graphics among others.
Illustrated Literature is a medium used to express ideas via images, often combined with text or other visual information.
Illustrated Literature sometimes takes the form of Comics. It frequently takes the form of juxtaposed sequences of panels of images. Often textual devices such as speech balloons, captions indicating dialogue, narration, sound effects, or other information. Size and arrangement of panels contribute to narrative pacing. Cartooning and similar forms of illustration are the most common image-making means in comics; fumetti is a form which uses photographic images.
Common forms of Illustrated Literature include comic strips, editorial and gag cartoons, and comic books. Since the late 20th century, bound volumes such as graphic novels, comics albums, and tankōbon have become increasingly common, and online webcomics have proliferated in the 21st century.
On the broadest level of illustrated book communication there is the story or narrative: what happens. However, a comic book does not visually, or even verbally, present each moment of action in the narrative. Certain moments of prime action from the narrative are selected by the writer and/or artist and encapsulated in a frame (a unit of comic book communication that is called a panel, irrespective of whether or not there are actual panel borders).The rhetorical act of creating a comic book consists of encapsulation, layout, and composition.
Kaushik Majumder took us through the short history of the Bengali Illustrated Literature. Kaushik spoke about the origin and development of Bengali Comics and graphic art from Nineteenth Century to Blog-age comics, its trend and will touch its memorable milestones.Kaushik has done pioneering work on History and evolution of world as well as Bengali comics His research on World Comics has been published recently by Lalmati named Comics Itibritto (2015).He is one of the most significant comics researcher in Bengal.
Sarbajit Sen spoke from his personal experience about the comics scene in Bengal and will reflect on his own favourite graphic artist from Bengal — Mayukh Choudhury.Sarbajit is one of the pioneers in sequential graphic narratives in India. He is a guest faculty with NID Ahmedabad for conducting Comic Book workshops with students of animation film design. He created comic strips and cartoons for some leading dailies in Kolkata, including The Statesman, The Economic Times and Aaajkal for more than a decade. His 4-page graphic narrative – on climate disorder – got the National award as the Best Comics in 1994.
Pinaki De located book illustrations (including children book illustration) in Bengal within a global context. He will also participate in deliberations associated with comics.Pinaki is an illustrator and graphic designer who have worked regularly with national and international publishers like Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Pan Picador, Hachette, Westland, OUP, Routledge, Orient Blackswan, Roli, Sage, Primus, Zubaan, Rupa and many others. His design and layout grace about 350 books including those by eminent authors like Ruskin Bond, Kunal Basu, Arvind Adiga, Anita Nair, Mahesh Dattani and Nemai Ghosh.
Debkumar Mitra illustrated the present state of comics/graphic narrative in Bengal and tried to map it in a global context. Debkumar is madly passionate about comics and visual arts. His special area of interest is alternative comics across the globe. He is a trained artist but chose Mathematics as his vocation.Debkumar is a Gordon M. Fisher Fellow from the University of Toronto, Canada. He has published Mindstretch (a book on mathematical puzzles and miscellany), The Mad, Mad world of Elections with Sudhir Dar, Penguin India Fact File, Business Traveller's Guide and States of India – all of them with Penguin India.
The rising popularity of the Illustrated Literature as an internal communication device for designers has increased our ability to engage our stakeholders as we build interfaces. Social service agencies looking to provide services to hard-to-reach groups like immigrants, cultural minorities, and the poor have taken pride in innovative outreach methods. In situations where traditional printed matter is a barrier, graphical methods can be used very effectively to communicate with audiences.
From guerilla theatre to testimonials, posters to graphic instructions, users have benefited from alternative communication methods, particularly in situations where education or cultural barriers make it difficult for people to access services important to their well-being and safety. In some cases, the comic book format has been used as a way to help people get access to critical legal help.
Aloke Kumar
_____________________
Talk on Bengali Comics at KLF'16
by Dr. Kaushik Majumdar
