Orijit Sen: ’I try to confront the idea of fear’
Artist-activist Orijit Sen is busy with a new project. The first issue opens with The Plague Doctor’s Apprentice, in which journalist Indrajit Hazra and artist and photographer Mad Paule bring to life 17th century Florence, wracked by the bubonic plague. The first issue of ‘Comixense’, themed on ‘Machine and Masters’, features stories such as ‘Love For Dummies’ and ‘The Captain Sen, 58, who created one of India’s first graphic novels, River Of Stories, in 1994 to examine the implications of the Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada, had been wanting to bring out a comics magazine since he was eight years old. Starting a comics magazine was a dream but it involved a team of people, logistics and funding support,” says Sen. Last year, he was approached by Sanjiv Kumar of the Takshila Educational Society and Ektara Trust, who has been involved in children’s education for a long time. Recently, when cartoonist Manjul got a law enforcement notice from Twitter, Sen put out a post: “Cartoonists’ Ink: The only known cure for chronic Fascisitis.” In an interview to The Indian Express in May, Sen noted: “A lot of my work combines images and words, because that is also what the comics medium is about.
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