Showing posts with label Ashvin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ashvin. Show all posts

14 June 2018

Meet The Blanks

As we learned in the previous post, Meet The _______ was a strip appearing in Tinkle, the comic from India, which focused on a different creature in each episode. (Usually Fauna, but not always.) Last time i promised a collection of those strips, so let's jump right in.
All these strips were scripted by Ashvin and illustrated by Pradeep Sathe, whose work we saw on a few strips earlier today.









I mentioned plants getting coverage, but not just any plant. Unlike the animals, this one is written by S.M. Almeida, with artwork from J.P. Irani -


page art by Pradeep Sathe and J.P. Irani for Tinkle #s 5, 6, 14, 16, 19, 20, 22, 28, & 50 (1981-1984)

More Twinkles From Tinkle

In many ways, Tinkle, the children's comic from India at which we've been peeking, reminds me of old UK children's comics. The mix of fables and adventures with history and science strips felt quite familiar when first encountering the magazine. Beyond the folk tales mentioned earlier, they also often touched on things close to me in some way, like one of my heroes growing up - Benjamin Franklin...


Have i babbled on about Sun WuKong at all yet? Even those not fans of his tales are likely somewhat familiar with The Monkey King with all the movies that have been made touching upon the legends. (He was even the focus of the movie that brought Jackie Chan and Jet Li together. (And the character played by Jet))
But if you're a fan, before too long you're likely to encounter Hanuman. Hanuman came first, and it is said that Sun WuKong is a later incarnation. So before you go bury yourself in Journey To The West, maybe take a look at the roots of The Monkey King. And here, we have the roots of Hanuman himself, with Ram Waeerkar back once again for the artwork...


As mentioned above, Tinkle included comics featuring history and science - and sometimes both combined...


In the early days, Tinkle had a regular feature i enjoyed called Meet The _______. Each strip focused on a different animal, or sometimes even a plant. They ran from 2-4 pages, and covered a wide variety of creatures, ranging from Chickens and Worms to Pangolins and Tigers.

Here's a sample with Meet The Tiger...


We'll be back this afternoon with more Meet The _______ comics from Tinkle.
See you then.

page art by Pradeep Sathe and Ram Waeekar from Tinkle #s 4, 5, 13, & 14 (1981, 1982)