1. Comic con India 2012
A collective swarm to revive
childhood Heros/ fantasyland

2. A huge gathering of school and collage students,
graphic artists, illustrators, writers , young
publishers took place in Dilli-haat, New Delhi for
the sake of reviving childhood heros, love for the
comics (which still help to dream as well push
minds to fantasy lands), and the passion for the
graphic arts. This is an interacting platform for
aspiring writers and cartoonists to share their
work with comic enthusiasts as well as revival of
long forgotten comics such as Amar Chitra katha
and Indrajal (to name a few) and many more. It
was very good meet for the indigenous comic
group to showcase internationally and nationally.
The 2nd time comic con India was more
organised than 1st one. Inaugurated from
February 17th and lasted till 19th February,2012,
comic con this year registered innumerous
people, 80 participants with good sponsors(
Marvel, Flipkart and Inkfruit) and came up with
India’s very own superwoman character,i.e.
“superkudi” who flaunts “dupatta” as a cape in
her Indian attire with red stiletto.
This whole initiative has been done by
Twenty onwards media, a start up by an young
turk, Jatin Verma and his team.

5. Disney showcased new movie release “John Carter”

6. Various artists, writers, publishers and
related companies from India and across
the world has attended this fest. There
were many book launching session for
example Cyber Wit Publishers, The Indian
Time Traveller, Vizag Blue & Hyderabadi
Biryani took part of launching. some even
went one step further as Vimanika
edutainment launched their new title
,Moksha(vol#5) as well their apparel line.
One of the interesting session was the
“cosplay” in the fest which inspired many
young people to come ,register and relish
their” fantasy land character” feel.

7. A fan dressed as “superkudi” infront of Indian comic con mascot “ superkudi”.

8. a superman fan dressed as “superman “standing in front of the mascot
of comic con-2 India, “super kudi”

9. gimpses of cosplay

10. trend 1: villains are more popular than “super heroes”
visuals from cosplay

11. trend 2: women power
visuals from cosplay and logo

12. trend 3: revival of indigenous character power
( chota bheem, doga , chacha choudhury, billu, daku paan singh, nagraj)