Saurav Mohapatra

Saurav Mohapatra is an Indian comic book writer based out of California, USA. His credits include the Devi (#11 onwards), The Sadhu : "The Silent Ones"^[2] 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. His latest work is adaptation of Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s Chander pahar into a graphic novel called Moon Mountain.^[3]

Biography

Born in 1978 in Khurda, India, Mohapatra attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and later emigrated to United States in 2000.^[4]

He is also the co-founder of Dimdim inc., an open source web conferencing company.^[5]

Bibliography

• 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)

See also

• Indian comics
• Virgin Comics

References

• 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

External links

• Saurav Mohapatra's profile at ComicSpace