1. Narayan Debnath was an Indian comics artist, writer and illustrator.
16 Facts About Narayan Debnath
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Narayan Debnath created the Bengali comic strips Handa Bhonda, Bantul the Great and Nonte Phonte.
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Narayan Debnath holds the record of longest running comics by an individual artiste for Handa Bhonda comics series which completed its continuous 53 years of running.
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Narayan Debnath was the first and only comics artist in India who has received a D Litt.
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Rajar Raja, it was illustrated by Narayan Debnath and written by Bimal Ghosh to celebrate the birth centenary of Swami Vivekananda.
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Narayan Debnath was born and spent most of his life living in Shibpur, Howrah, India.
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Narayan Debnath's family hailed from Bikrampur in what is Bangladesh but had migrated to Shibpur before his birth.
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Narayan Debnath did not continue to get his degree but instead discontinued in his final year.
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Narayan Debnath began as a freelancing comics-artist and soon went for comics on his own.
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Narayan Debnath had been familiar with foreign comics, but comics in Bengal, to his belief, had yet to take off.
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Handa-Bhonda was initially penciled and inked by Narayan Debnath and had no coloured frames.
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Apart from Batul the Great, Narayan Debnath illustrated Rabi Chobi, written by Bimal Ghosh about the childhood days of Rabindranath Tagore.
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Narayan Debnath made Bantul a superhero able to take on tanks, aircraft, and missiles.
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Narayan Debnath had started his freelancing artist career from 1950 in Shuktara magazine and did the record of doing highest number of illustrations in Bengal.
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Narayan Debnath was admitted to a hospital on 24 December and died of heart related ailments on 18 January 2022 in Kolkata, at the age of 96.
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Collections of Narayan Debnath's comics have been published serially in Shuktara and Kishor Bharati and irregularly in Kishor Mon, Chotoder Asar, Pakhkhiraj etc.