![]() ![]() As a first mover also, I had an easy run as there was little competition, but it also meant working with them as publishing houses had not worked on graphic novels before,” adds Patil, who studied art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University. I feel free to play around with form because I do not try to emulate other graphic novels, or a long lineage to draw from. “Not having read other graphic novels was liberating in a way, because I was free from the compulsion of following templates. So graphic novels were a logical path to take, to work on my two skills together.” The author, who received the Nari Shakti Puraskar in 2017, will give a talk in the city today.Īt the session titled ‘Creative Journey’ hosted by the Loft Forum, Patil will share her experiences of working on each of her books, Kari, The Parva duology - Adi Parva:Churning of the Ocean (2012) and Sauptik: Blood and Flowers (2016) - and the recently published Aranyaka: Book of the Forest (2019), in collaboration with author Devdutt Pattanaik. But it came naturally to me because my brain is really partitioned into processing text and images. ![]() Now the author of three more books, the writer–painter Patil says, “I had not grown up reading graphic novels. ![]() When Amruta Patil began working on Kari (2008), her first graphic novel, it was an instinctive move. By Kinjal Sethia Today, attend a talk by Amruta Patil, India’s first female graphic novelist, who will speak about her art and her books ![]()
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