Children, who have admired the enchanting and inspiring stories of great Indian heroes, now get a chance to narrate their own tales and share it with other users.
The best feature of the website is their interactive section, Create With Us, where the reader can write stories or draw art. Predictably, it has a shop where one can order comics online. You can read one for 99 Cents (Rs 45.50) or if you are lucky, you can avail ACK's best discount offers. To give the visitor a feel of reading a real comic book, it flips the pages as if you were holding the comic in your hands. Currently, they are available in regional languages, including Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Gujarati, Bengali and Marathi. There are a lot of novel features and topping them all is the digital versions of the comics that can be read online. Although the website is not visually appealing, it makes sure that the content makes up for it. The homepage is divided into a five sections with maximum weightage given to the Digital ACK section, which includes the Story of Week and E-comic. The website, just like the original, takes you on a cultural ride to the world of great epics, Indian mythology, history and folk tales.
In fact, ACK laid a foundation of comic culture in India and gave India the much-needed boost in comic readership.Īnd now, keeping in tune with the changing times, ACK has launched their website. But like a lone soldier on a shipwreck, Amar Chitra Katha, India's most popular comic series, launched by Anant Pai in 1967, has managed to survive the advent of Archie Comics, Adventures of Tintin and DC comics to India. Technology has changed the rules of reading and the Internet takes away from the charm of buying books from our pocket money. The fact is we just don't need them anymore. There is a reason why moral story books are gathering dust on our shelves.
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