Английская Википедия:Arun Prasad

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Arun Prasad is an historian specialised in the history of karnataka, a comics archivist and a pannapictagraphist (comics collector).[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] He is also a researcher, freelance writer[8] and columnist on the heritage of Bangalore[9][10] [11][12] and presently the Project & Research Head of Discover Bengaluru, an organisation documenting the Bangalore city's heritage and history.[3][6][12][13][14][15] [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]

His comics collection includes more than 17,000[7] rare and old Indian/Western comics including rarest of Amar Chitra Katha, Indrajal Comics, Tinkle, Mandrake the Magician and The Phantom.[1][6][12][20][25][26] He also possesses the complete collection of Indrajal Comics (published by Bennett, Coleman).[20][21]

Awards and recognition

  • He was described and called as "one of India's most serious comic collectors" and "India's comic king" by the Mid-Day Magazine in December 2013.[26]
  • In August 2014 he was one of the featured collectors on The Great India Collectors Ride (History Channel).[27][28]
  • He won Indian Comics Fandom Award 2014 for Best Comics Collector in November 2014.[29][30]
  • One of the featured Pannapictagraphists (December 2014 - February 2015) in daily e-paper World Comics & Graphic Novels News(WCGNN) published by Freelance talents.

References

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