Shamik Dasgupta is an Indian comic book writer. He has done work for

Virgin Comics Liquid Comics is an India, Indian comic book Publishers company, founded in 2006 as Virgin Comics LLC, which produced stories (many of which are Indian-culture related) for an international audience. The company was founded by Sir Richard Branson a ...

, specifically for '' Ramayan 3392 A.D.'' a series based on the ancient Hindu epic ''Ramayana'' and set in a distant future. He has also written a one shot horror graphic novel called ''Virulents''. He is the editor in chief of ''Arkin Comics'', a popular 3D

comic book A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine or (in the United Kingdom and Ireland) simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are of ...

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which is custom made to feature the comic reader. In 2012 he started working on a graphic novel named 'The Caravan' for

Yali Dream Creations Yali Dream Creations LLC, known as YDC, is an Indian comic books publisher, focused on creating original stories using comics and graphic novels. YDC was founded in 2012 by Asvin Srivatsangam, and published its first graphic novel in 2013, wri ...

. This was released in 2013. The Caravan is a horror graphic novel written by Shamik Dasgupta. Dasgupta described it as "a classic horror/action/adventure in the trend of From Dusk till Dawn and 30 Days of Night copiously coated with spicy Bollywood masala." For the same publisher, he did the graphic novel adaptation 'Devi Chaudhurani', which was originally written by Bankim Chandra Chatterji.

Career

His career started with

, and now he is employed by

as a Chief Creative Director. Since 2012, Shamik Dasgupta has created

The Caravan ''The Caravan'' is an Indian English-language, long-form narrative journalism magazine covering politics and culture. History In 1940, Vishwa Nath launched ''Caravan'' as the first magazine from the Delhi Press; it went on to establish its ...

, The Caravan Blood War, Devi Chaudhurani, Rakshak: Origin Series and The Village. He also created TNT for Speech Bubble Entertainment. Dasgupta's comic book series, Rakshak, has been acquired in December 2019 by director

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for motion film adaptation.

References

External links

Shamik Dasgupta Interview : I cannot do anything else but comics
Living people University of Calcutta alumni Indian comics writers Year of birth missing (living people) {{Comics-writer-stub