Virgin Comics: Hindu Narrative Themes for a Cosmopolitan Audience.
Virgin Comics (subsequently known as Liquid Comics and Graphic India) was founded in 2006 as a comic book publisher that aimed to market Indian comics to a global, cosmopolitan audience. This article focuses on their Shakti line, which draws upon Hindu narratives about gods, goddesses, and holy peop...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Religion & Popular Culture Vol. 34; no. 3; pp. 172 - 190 |
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University of California Press
Dec2022
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