BookishDramas

Billoo and Olympic Games  From the Inside Flap In 1973, cartoonist Pran was looking for a school going teenage boy who could feature in the comic strips. Thus he created a boy with a long hair covering his eyes and named him BILLOO. This lanky was liked by the readers so much that the editor of the magazine asked the cartoonist to increase the episodes from one page to two. Billoo is seen roaming the streets with his pet pup - Moti. When he is at home, he is stuck to the TV.Billoo and his gang which includes Gabdu, Jozi, Mono, Bishamber etc; are at loggerheads with Bajarangi, the wrestler and his aide Dhakkan. They are always in search of some excuse to showdown each other. Jozi is friendly to Billoo, but her dad Colonel Three - not - Three doesnot like the boy and always points his gun at him. Billoo and his friends are often seen playing cricket in lanes of the block, and their score is few smashed windows. The stories here are filled with fun and frolic and these comic short sto...

  Archie & Friends: Summer Vacation #1  Get ready for a BEACH PARTY BONANZA with Archie and all his pals 'n' gals in RIVERDALE! It's time for pool parties, barbecue blowouts, and maybe even a little summer romance... hopefully no one gets too sun burned! There are 4 major stories in the book all new and being a vacation book has all to do with summer and beaches. We have the entire gang echoing the vibes of summer with the heat making its presence felt. As a child I discovered the Archies in the folds of the Sunday weekly magazine that used to come bundled with our English newspaper. There used to be 4-5 pages of various comics, majorly in B/W and I waited every week eagerly for the weekend and would be extremely heartbroken in the weeks where the magazine would be missing due to various reasons. I started buying the Digests and Double Digests from 1990 when after a long struggle was able to convince the newsstand vendor to give these to me.  Digital access then was a...