Amar Chitra Katha Covers

Cover art play a major part in attractive appeal of comics,many of times the story illustration is not up to the mark but cover is so fascinating that readers go with it and tends to purchase/read the comic.
Covers of Amar Chitra Katha,Indrajal Comics are a important integral part of the comic itself as well as a important ingredient of nostalgia too.
Presented here are some of the attractive covers of ACKs for readers who admire the cover art too.One can easily differentiate between the vareity of art work,see how water colors are used in cover of 'Shah Jahan' to elaborate and highlight the high quality shading.

ACK-007:Birbal The Witty

Update (6th Jan 2009): Hindi version added.

Its again a contribution from Frank,thanks to him.Friends there is only one way to keep this blog alive and that is in form of contributions as to run two blogs simultaneously is a very difficult job for a single person.
So persons having scans of ACK are requested to contribute them and i will be posting them here or alternatively one can request TPH to allow him/her administrative rights so that he/she can post to the blog directly.

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"Hindi version was first posted at Ashish Pathak's Comic World by Ashish. He will contribute more ACK scans in future too. Thanks Ashish".- PBC (6th Jan, 2009)

ACK-006:Dashratha

Another contribution from a familiar friend and comic lover Frank,its very appreciative gesture from his side as he also runs a similar blog(Online Indian Comics).The scans are of crystal clear quality for which thanks and all credit to him.
The story is of Lord Rama's father Dashratha,which needs no introduction to any Indian.So right away enjoy this historical story......





















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ACK-003:Hitopadesha

3rd ACK in the series is presented hereby.'Hitopadesha' or 'sermons for welfare' is a collection of wise tales narrated using animals as symbols,'Jatak Kathayein','Panchtantra' and 'Hitopdesha' were among my favorites during childhood and i was fascinated by reading the stories in which animals were central characters,my little mind was able to grasp very quickly the moral given through these stories.
Choosing the medium of animals for delivering the moral of story to children is indeed a very impressive and successful idea.Our indigenous literature and books are full of wisdom but we are reluctant to read and harness from them.
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Hitopadesha (Good Counsel) is an 11-12th century Sanskrit collection of stories in four chapters instead of five in the Panchatantra on which it is based. Each chapter contains a string of stories, one emerging from the other, with each designed to render counsel on ethical worldly-wise conduct. The characters are living beings including humans and animals in the wild. The latter too are endowed with the reason and emotions of human beings. Thereby they come to represent types of human nature and behavior and one can draw morals from the stories.
In this collection, a tiger finds a gold bangle with which he allures a traveler to cross the river; stuck in mire, the greedy man falls easy prey to the tiger.In another story, a jackal feigns friendship with a deer who despite warnings from a wise crow joins the jackal and meets with a tragedy. An old blind vulture is offered shelter by birds in the hollow of a tree.He protects their fledglings. A cat pleads for living with them and the vulture agrees. The cat finishes the fledglings one by one and goes away. The birds suspecting the vulture kill him. Moral: Do not give shelter to the unknown. This collection is treasure house of such stories.

[Introduction:courtesy TPH]

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