Indie Comix Fest 2025: Watershed for artists

Park Street, YWCA hall hosted comic artists, graphic novelists, and writers from all around India for the annual Indie Comix Fest, 2025.

- MOHUL BHATTACHARYA

"This is a self-published festival for comics and graphic novels. I have brought my own comic anthology My Com, There's also a preview of Lovecraft in India, which will come out in April next year. There were three sets of discussions: History of comics in Bengal by Rituparno Basu and Swagata Dutta Burman, A look at the comics scenario outside Bengal by Charbak Dipta, Partha Pratim Sarkar, and Sourav Dutta. And the last one was Fictional and Nonfictional Narratives by Anandini Sengupta, Aafreen Islam, Wree, and Manimanjari Sengupta, which was moderated by Deotima Sarkar. This festival is happening in Kolkata after 5 years. We had to stop because of Covid. We will have one such event every year. We hope more people come and interact with us," said Harsho Mohan Chattoraj, one of the organisers for the event, and a published graphic artist with publication houses all over India.

There were also two workshops Charbak Dipta handled fiction comics and the making, and Harsho Mohan Chattoraj handled nonfiction comics and making. The Statesman focused on the various aspiring, veteran, and novel authors and artists who had come to the event: