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<div style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:32px"><b>Bharath Murthy:</b></span><br>
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Trouble growing up</b></span></div>
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<p style="margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left">The talk will take you through a brief history of Indian comics and offer some speculations on the present and future of comics in India, from the perspective of a practicing cartoonist. </p>
<p style="margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><b>Bharath Murthy</b> is a cartoonist and filmmaker. He works on publishing, film and animation projects as a partner in <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://wordpress.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=76b20cf515abdd6afee242d49&id=1e5b798044&e=61af794d5a__;!!KGKeukY!lOE-c6doJhsK-kuK5iltSFqxsm09vNgCx9GB9MrHzIEu-doY908kgTYNWiLBrrozmxs16zm7jGdL$" style="color:#007c89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Studio Ekonte</a>. He edits and publishes <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://wordpress.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=76b20cf515abdd6afee242d49&id=4c6295dc3d&e=61af794d5a__;!!KGKeukY!lOE-c6doJhsK-kuK5iltSFqxsm09vNgCx9GB9MrHzIEu-doY908kgTYNWiLBrrozmxs16_kFQHxl$" style="color:#007c89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><i>Vérité</i></a>, a comics magazine for adults, under the <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://wordpress.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=76b20cf515abdd6afee242d49&id=ac75eb27ad&e=61af794d5a__;!!KGKeukY!lOE-c6doJhsK-kuK5iltSFqxsm09vNgCx9GB9MrHzIEu-doY908kgTYNWiLBrrozmxs160G5e8Jg$" style="color:#007c89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><i>Comix India</i></a> label. His first book-length comic, <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://wordpress.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=76b20cf515abdd6afee242d49&id=2e3f04ca6a&e=61af794d5a__;!!KGKeukY!lOE-c6doJhsK-kuK5iltSFqxsm09vNgCx9GB9MrHzIEu-doY908kgTYNWiLBrrozmxs1665URbqh$" style="color:#007c89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><i>The Vanished Path: A Graphic Travelogue</i></a> was published in 2015 by HarperCollins, India. He has also taught film direction at Film & Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune.</p>
<p style="margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left">In 2017, he co-founded <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://wordpress.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=76b20cf515abdd6afee242d49&id=83f56b7119&e=61af794d5a__;!!KGKeukY!lOE-c6doJhsK-kuK5iltSFqxsm09vNgCx9GB9MrHzIEu-doY908kgTYNWiLBrrozmxs162_EfO-Y$" style="color:#007c89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Indie Comix Fest</a>, a festival for self-published comics.</p>
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