How Bakarmax Is Leading India's Underground Comics Renaissance

From searing political insight to poop jokes, Sumit Kumar’s Bakarmax is at the vanguard of India's underground comics scene.

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Krish Raghav

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May 28, 2019

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5 min

In 2016, when webcomic Bakarmax became his full-time job, Delhi cartoonist Sumit Kumar set himself three simple rules: no punchlines, no consistent art style, no single protagonist. In other words, he was breaking the three foundations of all successful webcomics, from xKCD to The Oatmeal.

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