IR RICHARD BRANSON is planning to create an Indian equivalent of Japanese manga with the launch of two new ventures, Virgin Comics and Virgin Animation.
Virgin Group has entered a partnership with Gotham Entertainment Group, South Asia’s leading comic publisher, Shekhar Kapur, the filmmaker, and Deepak Chopra, the author, to launch two companies, Virgin Animation in Bangalore and Virgin Comics in New York.
Virgin Group said it hoped that the deal, understood to be worth about £10 million, would spark a “creative renaissance” in India and lead to a worldwide phenomenon similar to Japanese manga and anime.
Virgin expects India and other parts of Asia to become big producers and buyers of entertainment goods. Its deal takes Virgin into comics and animation for the first time.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13133-1974174,00.html
― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Saturday, 7 January 2006 00:54 (twenty years ago)
Have they been exporting Indian cartoons elsewhere for the last 50 years to pave the way for the Indian comics renaissance? Just asking.
― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Saturday, 7 January 2006 03:33 (twenty years ago)
What happened to the Indian Spiderman comic that was supposed to be big last year? I haven't heard a peep since...
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 9 January 2006 16:32 (twenty years ago)
It came out in America in Spring 2005! I read through the first two issues and thought it was a pretty clever transposition, actually.
― ng-unit, Monday, 9 January 2006 16:57 (twenty years ago)