Newshunt & Graphic India partner to launch digital comics

The partnership will build a new comic offering on Newshunt's platform, bringing Graphic India's digital comics to mobile devices

BestMediaInfo Bureau | Mumbai | June 5, 2015

Newshunt, a leading news and eBooks app, has entered into a strategic partnership with Graphic India, a premier digital comic company focused on creating characters, comics and stories through mobile and digital platforms.

The partnership will build a new comic offering on Newshunt's platform, bringing hundreds of Graphic India's digital comics to mobile devices across English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and other local languages. A vast majority of the comics will be made available free for users of Newshunt and supported through advertising.

Vishal Anand, Chief Product Officer, Newshunt, commented, “Graphic India's groundbreaking digital comics and creative content makes them the perfect partner to help Newshunt aggressively scale this new segment on our platform. We are thrilled to be working with them to bring characters and stories like 'Chakra The Invincible', 'Devi', '18 Days', 'Ramayan 3392AD' and many more to new comic book readers all across the country through their mobile device.”

Sharad Devarajan, CEO and Co-Founder, Graphic India, added here, “This amazing partnership with Newshunt will allow us to build a passionate community of superhero, sci-fi and mythology fans through Graphic's content and characters. To help spark this new comic-culture in India, we will be giving away daily digital comics for free to Newshunt users across all major Indian languages, reaching millions through mobile phones.”

Graphic's stories include, 'Chakra The Invincible', the first superhero for India from Spider-Man and The Avengers creator, Stan Lee; '18 Days', a reimagining of the Mahabharata by Batman comics writer, Grant Morrison; 'Sholay: Gabbar', featuring the never before seen back story of cinematic villain, Gabbar Singh; 'Devi', a female superhero from filmmaker Shekhar Kapur; 'Ramayan 3392A.D.', 'The Sadhu' and many more.

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