Author Appupen talks about his creative journey and the need to be sure of one’s content

YouTube video by Hyderabad Literary Festival (HLF)

Being an artist is not an easy trade anywhere in the world, and this holds doubly true for comic authors in India. But for nearly two decades, the comic author and artist who prefers to be known as Appupen has stayed the course, his body of work placing him among the country’s more prolific cartoonists. Among his more recent works is a graphic novel of C S Chellappa’s classic Tamil novel Vaadivaasal, with the adaptation co-authored alongside Tamil writer Perumal Murugan released in English, Tamil, Marathi, and Bangla in January this year.

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