Stories never stand still. They shift with every medium, every place, and every person who retells them. This combo pairs MAP's anthology on India's visual storytelling traditions with a set of four interactive zines that invite you to join the retelling yourself.
What's in the set:
A Moving Line: 1500 Years of Indian Visual Storytelling (Book)
From temple walls and painted scrolls to comics, graphic novels, and webcomics, India's history of visual storytelling is long and rich. This book traces that history and draws surprising connections between works rarely seen side by side. Its eight essays and eleven graphic narratives, by scholars, practitioners, and artists, range from the timeless to the future-forward.
Spin-Offs: A Set of Four Zines
Four interactive zines exploring how stories change across mediums, identities, places, and retellings:
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The Travelling Whispers by Vani Chutani follows stories as they echo through generations, changing meaning with each new narrator and context.
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Alt-Verse by Ashlin Sara Paul questions familiar character tropes and plotlines, and nudges you to build an alternate comic universe of your own.
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The Place Between Stories by Deepesh Sangtani looks at how maps hold many stories, prompting reflection on place, identity, and belonging.
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The Phoney Jackal by Keena unpacks retellings, likens the evolution of stories to genes, and includes a step-by-step guide to making your own zine.
Why you'll love it:
- Read the history, then make your own: the book gives you the big picture, and the zines get you creating.
- Twelve-plus voices across essays, graphic narratives, and zines in one set.
- A thoughtful gift for comic readers, illustrators, zine makers, designers, and students of art history.
