The burgeoning Asian webtoon market is set to expand further with the April 2021 launch of Graphic India’s Toonsutra, a comics platform for mobile devices.
In addition to standalone comics, Toonsutra will offer exclusive original web comics based on hit Indian film and TV properties, including S.S. Rajamouli’s Baahubali film franchise, recent animated streaming series, “The Legend of Hanuman”, and new original webtoon comics based on Chakra The Invincible, the Indian superhero film franchise created by Stan Lee and Graphic India co-founder, Sharad Devarajan, Variety magazine has reported.
Available for free download on both iOS and Android platforms, Toonsutra will release new free stories every day from Indian creators, and also global properties in Hindi and other Indian languages. Genres include superhero, fantasy, romance, sci-fi, Bollywood, mythology and action.
Indian properties will include “18 Days: The Mahabharata” and the female super-heroine series “Devi” created by filmmaker Shekhar Kapur, in addition to “The Sadhu,” “Mistry P.I.,” “Shadow Tiger,” “Unholi,” “Reincarnation Man,” “Shikari Force,” “The Mighty Yeti,” “Dragonfly” and “Avatarex Destroyer of Darkness”, according to Variety.
The app will also feature titles from U.S. publisher Valiant Entertainment, including “Bloodshot,” “Shadowman,” “X-O Manowar,” “Harbinger, “Archer & Armstrong,” “Ninjak” and “Rai”.