Drighangchoo Issue 3 Arriving in July

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Ah, the third issue of Drighangchoo will be finally out in a week, i.e. in early July, 2010.The above is the promo poster. We're going for a larger print format this time, and we've increased the print-run to 500 copies (given the unexpected reception of the first two issues) .

We're yet to start direct-to-home deliveries as our experiment with crows as reliable carriers hasn't even reached the beta stage. But if you're living somewhere in Kolkata and want to have a copy (or more), just send us an email. We'll work out an appointment as how the issue/s can directly reach your hands faster than a stale green pizza. The same holds if you're living elsewhere, but have some friends visiting the city who might be interested in forwarding to you. Or if you're willing to pay for the postage, we'll send the mag sailing to you through the old postal traffic routes.

Limited numbers of the above poster will also be available in print after the release of the third issue. If you want one, mail us early, or let us know on our Facebook page here.

Er, the magazine is for private circulation only, and NO commercial motives are involved (if you don't believe it, once again read this!). The use-value of the magazine is modestly set at Rs. 50 ($ 2 for people outside India). If you want older issues of the mag together with the new and/or are a student who eagerly wants to put it to some decent use with your privileges of finding the use-value of the mag a bit immodest, we are always willing to rework the use-value thing for you.

It's always your reading that is important.

Drighangchoo Issue 3- Submissions Wanted

Attention folks! Drighangchoo Issue 3 will be published.
 Er, soon.

The 'er' becomes important when you're wondering hard when the next issue will come out. Well, not exactly. From the start, we had decided that Drighangchoo is better off as an irregular publication than a magazine that tries to stick to monthly deadlines, or trimonthly ones, and ends up failing those, and readers' expectations. Better to be (er) regular, than irregular.

What will be in this issue? Let me highlight just three of them.

1) An interview with David B, the legendary French comics artist and storyteller who enthralled us during his visit to Kolkata. No, we didn't ask David stupid questions like "Did you like Indian curry, and do you know about Indian graphic novels?" Of course, he knew better than the people asking those questions. We were asking serious questions. And we got wonderful answers. Just wait to read those!

2) What happens when, for the umpteenth time, and propelled by his sadomasochistic sex drive, Devdas travels, that is, before the end, to meet his ex-GF ? In "Paro, Her Story Retold", Madhuja Mukherjee explores some interesting possibilities in the graphic form.

3) Once upon a time, lived a nawab who loved kebabs but who was melancholic and perennially down with huzn, the Orhan Pamuk way. The nawab wondered about the flight of the migratory birds who came to his garden but disappeared each day. To trace the birds' flight, the nawab sent out emissaries throughout the world... What follows is a wonderfully illustrated comics strip. The artist and writer of this is Vaswar Maitra, a student of architecture, presently staying in Bangalore.

Apart from these, the regulars of the previous issue are working away right now in mysterious seclusion; their cellphones keep ringing. Who knows what will emerge?

If you're interested, you too can send in your comics and submissions (check here for submission guidelines).There's no deadline, but after May 5, 2010, we round off stuff for editing, and have plans of going to press after that.

Do hurry, unless what you submit gets assigned for the next.