Amar Chitra Katha. Amar Chitra Katha offers a variety of illustrative and engaging stories for kids. Our online bookstore has a collection of moral stories that teach valuable lessons to children. Our online library has bedtime story books too.

One of my favourite Tennis star, has just created history by winning his 15th title. Amba simple class driver download. Thanks to Andy Roddick, for making this such an exciting match to watch. Certainly, a match to remember for all Tennis fans. As with Comicology, our recent post on the making News, brought the comics friends from all walks of life to commemorate the achievements of some among us.

I hope that we keep progressing through our unique medium of art with the same enthusiasm, and support from comics friends, in the process sharing and celebrating the 9th Art. To celebrate this occasion, let’s look into one another famous brand from our own Indian genre, which enjoys a fair amount of fanfare among our very friends, the legendary (ACK), and the most popular title in their ranks, Mahabharata. The name ACK derives from, one of the primary languages of India, which means Immortal ( Amar) Picture Stories ( Chitra Katha). ACK is known for inspiring a generation of readers through their retelling of mythological stories in picture format, and doing it professionally. Most of the mythological stories and decorated Leaders of India, as I still remember from my childhood, were inspired by what I envisioned through ACK’s picture based stories. As mentioned during our, ACK was the first venture started by the great, known fondly as Uncle Pai.

Pai was born on 17 Sep 1929, in Karkala, Karnataka, the Southern Indian state. Even though his major in college was Chemical Engineering, he always dreamt to publish comics for kids, which he incidentally started pursuing right after his studies. After a short stint with, where he was instrumental in the launch of erstwhile, before leaving them to explore options of starting his own venture.

Pai eventually co-founded ACK, along with (IBH), in 1967. Niv bible pdf free download. From then on, he went from strength to strength, by starting the county’s first-ever comics and cartoon syndicate, in the form of Rang Rekha Features in 1969; and then the legendary, the children's magazines in 1980, which is still issued monthly, with Mr.Pai serving as the honorary editor. ACK’s current image of Indian Authentic stories, was not to be seen in the initial 10 editions (which were printed in multiple languages), when it exclusively printed comic albums licensed from Disney, just like many other comic companies in India (For others like LM Comics, Chandamama Classics & Cartoons, who followed the same trend, refer to the page ). The cover-arts seem to have been drawn locally, which could have been done using the originals as samples.

Issue #11, was the landmark title, where ACK produced a comic album on its own, under the supervision of Anant Pai, who also wrote the script. The title was Krishna, a godly figure from the Hindu Mythology. For many ACK fans, they consider this title as the real number 1 issue of ACK, as that was the trendsetter, which saw it spanning over decades of dominance over Comics industry in India, eventually crossing the 90 million copies sales for the first-time ever. There is an interesting news about this very issue’s multiple versions printed by ACK, to read more about it, refer to on HMI blog. The original run of ACK lasted until 1991, eventually wrapping up with the Issue #436, which featured a story about India’s first Prime Minister,. This was the time when the TV industry was booming, and magazines and children classics, saw a erosion of sales.

Prompted by this change of ACK authorities, decided to concentrate on reprinting their legendary series, and avoid adding any more fresh titles to their list. So from 1991 to 2008, saw the second run of ACK titles which were numbered from #501 (which was incidentally the same title as, Issue #11 Krishna), to #744, this time issued in better paper quality and thick cover. Some 5 issues from this set consisted brand new titles. Most notable additions out of them were for Tatas, Kalpana Chawla, and Ram Charit Manas. A complete list of all the ACK titles, published in their entire run along with special issues, could be found on John Thompson’s personal.

For someone who is not Indian, his passion towards cataloguing his personal collection, is unseen even among Desi comics fans. Kudos to his extensive effort. (Thanks to Prabhat, for referring to his site) Just like Tinkle, ACK was also taken over by the newly formed ACK Media Ltd. In 2007, after which we only see the reprint titles from ACK time and again. As it stands, the chance of them producing new titles looks remote, as their current concentration seems to be on digitizing their brand through Mobile Games, Digital Comics, and few animated feature films.