Saurav Mohapatra

Saurav Mohapatra is an Indian comic book writer based out of Massachusetts[2], USA. His credits include the Devi (#11 onwards), The Sadhu : "The Silent Ones"[3] and Deepak Chopra's India Authentic from Virgin Comics. He is the co-creator/writer of the crime-noir comic book series Mumbai Confidential from Archaia.

Saurav Mohapatra
Saurav Mohapatra
Born1978[1]
Khurda, India[1]
OccupationComic Book Writer
NationalityIndian
Period2006 –
Website
www.mohaps.com

His most recent work includes Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s Chander pahar into a graphic novel called Moon Mountain[4] for Penguin Random House (India) and Sholay: Gabbar, an authorized prequel graphic novel for the iconic Hindi feature film Sholay.[5]

Biography

Born in 1978 in Khurda, India, Mohapatra attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and later emigrated to United States in 2000.

He is also the co-founder of Dimdim inc., an open source web conferencing company.[6]

Bibliography
  • Sholay: Gabbar (Westland/Graphic India)
  • Way of the Warrior, The Legend of Abhimanyu (Penguin India)
  • Moon Mountain (Penguin India)
  • Mumbai Confidential (Archaia)
  • Witchblade (issues 140-141 co-written with Ron Marz (Top Cow)
  • India Authentic (Virgin Comics)
  • Devi #11-onwards (Virgin Comics)
  • The Sadhu : "The Silent Ones" (Virgin Comics)
  • Jimmy Zhingchak - Agent of D.I.S.C.O. (one shot) (Virgin Comics)
  • Mumbai Macguffin (one shot) (Virgin Comics)
gollark: Wait, if America is as non-free as China, and the UK is generally considered less free than America... the UK is more authoritarian than China?
gollark: Decent prosperity and continually advancing technology?
gollark: *Somewhat* more.
gollark: I said "somewhat more".
gollark: People might have different criteria for these and it's irrelevant and pointless to say "well, yours are wrong".

See also

References
  1. , www.mohaps.com
  2. https://mohaps.com/about
  3. Forum Archived 2007-03-03 at the Wayback Machine, Newsarama
  5. Maniar, Parag (2014). "Sholay's Gabbar Singh immortalised in comic book". Times of India.
  6. About Dimdim Archived 2010-08-22 at the Wayback Machine, www.dimdim.com
  • Devi #11 on Forbidden Planet
  • India Authentic #1 Ganesha on Mile High Comics
  • Saurav Mohapatra's Website and Blog-
  • Ron Marz interview on Newsarama
  • Dimdim Management Team
  • Creator details page at Archaia
Preceded by
Samit Basu		 Devi writer
2007		 Succeeded by
–
Preceded by
–		 India Authentic writer
2007		 Succeeded by
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