# One Post, Many Thoughts!

दोस्तों इस बार काफ़ी सारे ख्यालात ज़हन में घुमड़ रहे है जिन्हें आपके साथ बांटना है पर सोच रहा हूँ की कहाँ से शुरू करू!..क्या पहले उस कॉमिक की बात करूँ जिसके बारे में बात करने की पिछली पोस्ट में बात हुई थी या फिर मरहूम शेहाब जी की उस कॉमिक की बात करू जो इस पोस्ट में आपके साथ मिलकर पढना चाहता हूँ या फिर उस कम्युनिटी के बारे में आप लोगों को बताऊँ जो न चाहते हुए भी हालातों के मद्देनज़र मुझे बनानी पड़ी.
चलिए सबसे पहले उस कॉमिक की ही बात करते हैं जिसके बारे में बात करना पिछली पोस्ट में तय हुआ था और वो कॉमिक है 'वन-वीर लोथार'.दोस्तों ये सिर्फ महज़ एक आम मैन्ड्रेक कॉमिक नहीं है जिसमे मैन्ड्रेक हमेशा की तरह अपराधियों से अपनी जादुई शक्ति के बल पर लड़ता है,बल्कि ये एक ऐसी कहानी है जो यह बताती है की मैन्ड्रेक और उसका जिगरी दोस्त लोथार कब और कैसे मिले.
 

 

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# Tribute To Shehab Ji

From a long time i was longing for a snap and other details about Shehab Ji as about him very less information is available even with his close associates such as Pran,Hussain Zamin etc.
Though in a previous post Alok Bhai has already given some precious information about Shehab Ji but after coming across his first snap of any kind i felt to dedicate one more post on him along with some more details about him.
Recently Anupam Bhai provided some of the rare information about Shehab Ji as well as other artists in this post,from this very post we at least got an opportunity to view Shehab Ji's lone snap up till now and some more information about him that he was from Allahabad and his famous creation Chotu-Lambu was being published in Parag from 1958.
We also came to know that Shehab Ji's lived a very struggled life and even worked as a carpenter to earn his living in his childhood as his parents died when he was a child only and due to poor condition he wasn't able to study after 10th.This struggle and poverty clearly reflects in his cartoons and characters very well.
Shehab Ji started his career with 1/2 page cartoon space and later on he was assigned by Diamond comics publication to create a full 32 page comic of Chotu-Lambu.
Shehab Ji holds some of the glorious creations like Manglu Madari-Bandar Bihari,Chimpu,
Chaman Charlie behind him.His cartoon used to be a simple characters which uses the day-to-day happenings to turn in humorous situations.Though Shehab Ji excelled in both 1/2 page and 32 page comic format but personally i felt that he was better in 1 or 2 page space rather than a full 32 page comic.

His USP was to portray a full humorous situation without the use of dialogues,he excellently generated sharp humor in his creation Chimpu(Indrajal comics)in the absence of any sort of dialogues using only the sign language,here one can easily find a striking similarity with Charlie Chaplin's mute comedy.
Perhaps Shehab Ji was greatly inspired by Chaplin's methodology as later on he created a character called 'Chaman Charlie',clearly inspired by Charlie Chaplin.


















(Image courtesy:Anupam Bhai,Atul Vishwakarma)

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# 3rd Anniversary Post

Friends and comic lovers from all over the world,it gives me immense pleasure to welcome all of you at this memorable day which is the 3rd birthday/anniversary of this blog.
First of all let me thank my dear friend Comic Crazee for designing this fabulous header specially for Comic World's 3rd Anniversary post.Many-many thanks to him for this magnificent gift.
To start the celebrations,let me present another one of my dear and close friend Kuldeep Bhai who is eager to welcome all of you.Here are his words right away.

"Hello every one..My welcome greeting to you all and thanks everyone for joining us to celebrate another wonderful anniversary of this blog.This blog is not a website like millions others available on internet but it is a place where we see a pristine pond filled with warm memories of our childhood and we all want to jump to feel the old days when we were care free, pure hearted and dreamed to do something big.. Welcome all.. jump and feel the joy, happiness and lets promise ourselves that we will keep on filling this pond with our thoughts, appreciation,knowledge sharing,old memories so that more and more will be joining us in coming days to make this place the only 'mecca'/'Kumbh' of Comics world .. On this blog we have seen so many wonder ful post(Sholay,Hindi novels,satyakatha,bal pocket books,comics artist, writers....).. so many old thoughts ('par-tilli' , comics reading in Lantern light, efforts took to get comics...) we met so many wonder ful people who have such vast knowledge on comics,collection and we learned a lot about comics,comic culture ,reading habits in India and around the world. So much have been shared,posted so far and amazing part is that ' we want more' what best could happen to this blog other than this that instead of quenching the fire it is making it more and more big like adding more fuel (with every new post.) we have shown our appreciation to 'Zaheer bhai' so many time and on this occasion I salute his great work again on behalf of all of us and congratulate him again on 3rd anniversary of 'Comic world'.
Lage raho Zaheer bhai ... and Yes.. ALL IZZZ WELL.. keep it rolling.. Have a wonder ful time friends.. Kuldeep

As you all know about Kuldeep Bhai that he is living encyclopedia of comics,he has vast-vast treasure of knowledge and nostalgic moments attached with comics which he regularly keeps on sharing with all of us in his unique and unmatched style of words of which we all are fond of.If topic comes about Ved Prakash Sharma then he is simply unmatched and a living data base of his novels...simply mind blowing...i have never seen a passionate comic reader and lover as he is....and talking about his human side,he is a good human and friends of friend.How many of us can send quite a costly comics to a person with whom we don't have that much of 'terms' and acquaintance and that also without expecting any thing in return!!!Truly,a most humble attitude which is highly appreciated.
Kuldeep Bhai,many thanks for your kind and warm feeling toward this blog,i hope to see you all along with this blog like you are.As a small token of gift here is that ad page of unpublished novel of Ved Prakash Sharma which you were looking for.Hope you will like it.

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