Birbal And The Ten Greatest Fools

No telling how the net connection is doing, so let's get straight to it.
Continuing from this morning's post, a tale of Birbal and Akbar...

The cover for this issue was shown in the previous post, so here's a couple more Birbal covers instead:

The Ten Greatest Fools from Birbal The Witty (2001?)

Inimitably Witty Birbal

One figure with great personal appeal to me whom you might find in comics from India is Birbal. Part Wise-Man, part Wise-Ass, he's highly relatable for me. He was a real person from the 16th century, Mahesh Das or Raja Birbal was a Hindu advisor to Akbar, the Mughal emperor. He is the subject of a great number of folk tales known alternatively as Birbal Tales or Birbal/Akbar Tales. Still highly popular today, the Cartoon Network in India has a couple of animated series based upon his tales - Chota Birbal and Akbar & Birbal.

Not surprisingly, many have been adapted to comic book form. So let's run a few short ones here, and if the connection allows, we'll be back with a 16 page tale later today.

You don't suppose that's where the expression "to curry favour" originated?

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