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The 2016 Comix Creatrix: 100 Women Making Comics exhibition featured three Indian artists: Manjula Padmanabhan, Kaveri Gopalakrishnan and Reshu Singh. Amruta Patil, a prominent Indian graphic novelist, was not among them. The distinction reflects a deliberately limited exhibition, not a judgment that Patil’s work was unimportant.
What was the global 100 list?
Comix Creatrix: 100 Women Making Comics was an exhibition at London’s House of Illustration, open from 5 February to 15 May 2016. Co-curated by Paul Gravett and Olivia Ahmad, it brought together 100 women cartoonists from around the world. Its scope ranged widely across humour, horror, superheroes, autobiography, erotica, history, surrealism, reportage and science fiction.
India’s three representatives were Padmanabhan, Gopalakrishnan and Singh. The exhibition was a selection of work, rather than a definitive ranking of comic artists.
Who were the three Indian artists?
Manjula Padmanabhan: a newspaper-strip pioneer
Padmanabhan was among the pioneers of English-language comics in India. From 1982 to 1986, her strip Double Talk ran in the Sunday Observer; she was the first woman to run a newspaper strip there. Its protagonist, Suki, acquired cult status, and Penguin Books India later published the Suki stories.
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The strip did not win over every reader. Padmanabhan recalled complaints that it was “a horrible eyesore, ‘Double Gawk’, ‘dragging and brazenly repetitive.’”
Kaveri Gopalakrishnan: illustration and personal observation
A freelance comics artist and illustrator from Bangalore, Gopalakrishnan studied animation film design at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad. Her sequential graphic narrative Basic Space appeared in the anthology Drawing The Line: Indian Women Fight Back.
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She has described drawing as a way of paying close attention to people: “I used to document the things people did or said, ever since I started drawing as a toddler. This probably makes me an obsessively curious person; curious about other people and their quirks, which I still am.”
Reshu Singh: a short narrative in an anthology
Singh is an illustrator and artist from New Delhi and an alumna of the College of Art, New Delhi. Her short graphic narrative The Photo also appeared in Drawing The Line: Indian Women Fight Back.
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Why wasn’t Amruta Patil included?
Patil was described as India’s most well-known woman comics artist, but the exhibition had room for 100 creators from across the world. Co-curator Paul Gravett acknowledged the limits of that format: “With any exhibition, especially one limited to only 100 when as you know there are thousands of women making comics, past and present, worldwide, there will always be people and works left out.”
Gravett also explained that the curators wanted to include autobiographical pages by Singh and Gopalakrishnan from Drawing The Line. The anthology grew out of a workshop held in the wake of the Nirbhaya rape. Their inclusion highlighted work connected to that project; it does not establish that Patil was considered and rejected for a particular artistic or political reason.
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What did Amruta Patil make?
Kari: a long-form graphic narrative
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Adi Parva: the beginning of a Mahabharata trilogy
Adi Parva is the first part of Patil’s Mahabharata trilogy. Patil described it as the beginning of her relationship with paint and painters, and named influences including Odilon Redon, Paul Gauguin, Amrita Sher-Gil, folk art from the Indian subcontinent and Mexico, and fashion-magazine pages used for collage. She also identified the jewel box as an important motif.
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How the artists’ work differs
| Artist | Work and format | What distinguishes it |
|---|---|---|
| Manjula Padmanabhan | Double Talk, a newspaper strip; Suki stories later published by Penguin Books India | A pioneering newspaper-strip career and a recurring character with cult status |
| Kaveri Gopalakrishnan | Basic Space, a sequential graphic narrative in Drawing The Line | Illustration and close observation, presented within an anthology shaped by gender and social themes |
| Reshu Singh | The Photo, a short graphic narrative in Drawing The Line | An anthology contribution connected to the project’s autobiographical pages |
| Amruta Patil | Kari, a long-form graphic narrative; Adi Parva, the opening volume of a Mahabharata trilogy | Long-form graphic storytelling engaging sexuality, mythology and paint-based visual influences |
Where can readers find the works?
The 2016 account identifies the publications and collections below, but does not establish their current editions, prices, stock or availability. Check booksellers and libraries for present-day access.
- Kari and Adi Parva are the book titles to look for by Amruta Patil.
- Drawing The Line: Indian Women Fight Back is the anthology containing Gopalakrishnan’s Basic Space and Singh’s The Photo.
- For Padmanabhan, look for the collected Suki stories; the account identifies Penguin Books India as their publisher. Double Talk originally ran in the Sunday Observer from 1982 to 1986.
Scroll.in’s 6 February 2016 account of the exhibition and its artists is the source for the exhibition details and quoted comments.
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