<p>As a young chid, the first comic book that appealed to Mohit Srivastava was Nagina ka Jaal by Raj Comics. “It belonged to my elder sister. Of course I didn’t know how to read then but got enamoured by the colourful pictures and it is still dear to me,” says Mohit who started reading comics from a very young age, just like any other child.<br /><br /></p>.<p>While he grew up to make a career in the animation industry, he was least aware about what fate held in store for him, that he will write books and graduate from novels comics to graphic novels. “It is internet that introduced me to the genre of graphic novels,” says the young author of Satya Police who had a script in mind but was not sure about how it could be narrated. As his book released at Comic Con Express in Hyderabad, he could relate to the popularity of this genre. <br /><br />Over time, graphic novels have become the preferred reading option for those readers who want concise reading options . Since comics are traditionally associated with children, it is graphic novels which are capturing the imagination and the adult reading market.<br /><br />“These are nothing but larger volumes of comic,” says Suhas Sundar, author of a multi-volume story Odayan and a zombie thriller The Rabhas Incident. “Writing a graphic novel is almost like directing a movie and involves many layers of complexity, since the author will only write the book but then it will go to the artist who will design it.” So the product becomes easy to read but difficult to create!<br /><br />Surpassing this difficulty, authors are now experimenting with different topics as well. Recently, there was a graphic novel on the Partition and another one on Mahatma Gandhi’s life. While Mohit feels that graphic novels are free from a lot of restrictions that a TV or film script have and easy to interpret, Suhas thinks that the next two years will be interesting in terms of the kind of graphic novels that will come up, especially for the mature readers.<br /><br />But the treatment of the subject is equally significant. “If I have to show MK Gandhi with his wife in the train, I cannot overlook what other passengers would be talking around, since it is like composing a scene of the film. Like you want good scenes in the film, you would also want good scenes in your novel,” elucidates Jason Quinn, head of content at Campfire and author of the graphic novel Gandhi: My life is my message.<br /><br />Jason has previously written a similar graphic biography on Steve Jobs and feels that “If I were a student and want to know about any subject, say Mother Teresa, I would rather read a graphic novel on her than pick up a thousand page novel since I am more likely to remember the pictorial representation,” says Jason emphasising on the power of picture. <br /><br />While the attention span is reducing, these graphic novels play a large role in encompassing essential elements of a story as they narrate it in the pattern of a film. Probably, that is why these graphic novels are all able to succesfully arouse interest in <br />different subjects.</p>
<p>As a young chid, the first comic book that appealed to Mohit Srivastava was Nagina ka Jaal by Raj Comics. “It belonged to my elder sister. Of course I didn’t know how to read then but got enamoured by the colourful pictures and it is still dear to me,” says Mohit who started reading comics from a very young age, just like any other child.<br /><br /></p>.<p>While he grew up to make a career in the animation industry, he was least aware about what fate held in store for him, that he will write books and graduate from novels comics to graphic novels. “It is internet that introduced me to the genre of graphic novels,” says the young author of Satya Police who had a script in mind but was not sure about how it could be narrated. As his book released at Comic Con Express in Hyderabad, he could relate to the popularity of this genre. <br /><br />Over time, graphic novels have become the preferred reading option for those readers who want concise reading options . Since comics are traditionally associated with children, it is graphic novels which are capturing the imagination and the adult reading market.<br /><br />“These are nothing but larger volumes of comic,” says Suhas Sundar, author of a multi-volume story Odayan and a zombie thriller The Rabhas Incident. “Writing a graphic novel is almost like directing a movie and involves many layers of complexity, since the author will only write the book but then it will go to the artist who will design it.” So the product becomes easy to read but difficult to create!<br /><br />Surpassing this difficulty, authors are now experimenting with different topics as well. Recently, there was a graphic novel on the Partition and another one on Mahatma Gandhi’s life. While Mohit feels that graphic novels are free from a lot of restrictions that a TV or film script have and easy to interpret, Suhas thinks that the next two years will be interesting in terms of the kind of graphic novels that will come up, especially for the mature readers.<br /><br />But the treatment of the subject is equally significant. “If I have to show MK Gandhi with his wife in the train, I cannot overlook what other passengers would be talking around, since it is like composing a scene of the film. Like you want good scenes in the film, you would also want good scenes in your novel,” elucidates Jason Quinn, head of content at Campfire and author of the graphic novel Gandhi: My life is my message.<br /><br />Jason has previously written a similar graphic biography on Steve Jobs and feels that “If I were a student and want to know about any subject, say Mother Teresa, I would rather read a graphic novel on her than pick up a thousand page novel since I am more likely to remember the pictorial representation,” says Jason emphasising on the power of picture. <br /><br />While the attention span is reducing, these graphic novels play a large role in encompassing essential elements of a story as they narrate it in the pattern of a film. Probably, that is why these graphic novels are all able to succesfully arouse interest in <br />different subjects.</p>
