The comics, both books and series published in newspapers, once took the older generations, especially children and students, by storm. But they are fast on the wane. Children of the past, including me, were fond of reading the comics published in newspapers. Needless to say, not a single morning would pleasantly pass without reading them.
In a way, the comics of yesteryear deeply inculcated the reading habit in children, besides kindling thought processes in them including imagining beyond the ordinary. Though some comic characters were doing unnatural, superficial and unbelievable adventures smacking of negative vibes, people, especially children, got attracted to them. They also helped children develop and enrich their thinking capacity beyond the run-of-the-mill. They also enabled them to think differently.
The status of the already steadily waning comic books industry became worse with the setting in of the COVID-19 pandemic. Comic books seemed to have emerged and gained popularity in the 1930s. English comic books and series in newspapers were introduced almost simultaneously in India along with the Western countries while the same made its foray into other Indian languages later through dubbed versions. Through slapstick humour, romance and adventure, the comic strip medium offered something for everyone.
