CulturePOPcorn: Striving to bring back the glory days of the Indian comic book industry

When and how did you start?

 Comics in India have seen better days and this is a critical period for the Indian comics industry.

Right steps taken at the right time could prove to be a huge turning point for the dwindling Indian

Comics Industry. And that’s the exact thing CulturePOPcorn is trying to do. Mr. Kishan

Harchandani, a serial entrepreneur from a Pink city, Jaipur who is also a lifelong comic book fan,

started CulturePOPcorn in May 2016. It’s only appropriate that India’s leading comics new portal

was founded by a person who is a devoted fan himself and is passionate about what he is doing.

How did you come up with the idea? Your inspiration moment

 In today’s society when people, especially kids have not involved any kind of creative activities,

comics books can be a very important tool to make our kids and young generation, more creative

and open-minded. We have our own comic book industry and people involved there are doing

such creative and great things. Comics are our legacy and it’s our responsibility to preserve it

for next generation. We believe future of comic books is bright because there is lot’s of

happening in the comic industry, new players coming regularly with unique storyline and creativity.

Comic-Con India is Indian POP culture event and it’s very successful every year. Once you attend

a comic con you will really feel, you are in another world. It doesn’t matter whether you read

comics or not, but when you attend one comic con, you definitely start reading comics.

 Brief about organization and founding members

 We are for the fans, from the fans type of organization. Kishan Harchandani is the only founder of

CulturePOPcorn, but we have lots of contributors who are submitting articles on regular basis.

Some of them are well-known writers and have great followings, so connecting these people with

CulturePOPcorn is plus point for us.

What We Do?

 1. Articles are published on a daily basis by serious comic book enthusiasts and professional

bloggers, highlighting the current happenings in the world of Indian comic Industry.

2. Regular reviews are posted for the newest comic book offerings in the market by several of the

emerging publications like Raj Comics, Holy Cow Entertainment, Yali Dream Creations, Speech

Bubble Entertainment, Graphic India, Diamond Comics and many more.

3. These articles and reviews reach a large audience and thus ensures that the folks in the

industry, as well as the fans, are abreast with the latest ongoings.

4. Apart from these, CulturePOPcorn is also supporting publishers in more ways than one. The

exposure that these publications are getting via CulturePOPcorn is staggering, to say the least!

The detailed journey, like what all you want to share with readers.

We really want to aware next generation of Indian comic books. Apart from International

characters like Batman, Superman, Avengers, Punisher, we want that our kids read desi

superheroes as well as Nagraj, Doga, Parmanu, Chacha Choudhary etc.

Challenges and Opportunities/ Marketing Strategies

Right now there are very specific people who are interested in Indian Comics, you can say target

readers are very low in numbers. Most of them don’t even know if Indian comics still publishing or

not. So you can say it’s both challenge and opportunity for us because due to low numbers of

readers no one wants to touch this segment but at the same time, there is a great opportunity

because there is no competition or low competition.

Future plans and funding

 We want more user involvement and interaction in CulturePOPcorn. There are lot’s of fans with

great knowledge of comics, so, we have “Become an Author” program on CulturePOPcorn, which

means anyone who has a good hold of the English or Hindi languages, excellent writing skills and

someone who has a passion for comics can share articles or anything related to comics to

CulturePOPcorn. The best part of this program is that the article will be published in

CulturePOPcorn with credit to its original author along with Name, Social handle Link and some

more Information. We don’t take credit for anyone’s work because my primary motto here is not

to commercialize CulturePOPcorn but we want to see this portal as a Haven for all Comics Book

Lover.

A quote from the founder on the journey, or dealing with the challenge, or any inspiring moment.

For me, Comic books are a treasure of creativity. You cannot find this kind of innovation and

creativity in any other medium. For example, if you are watching a movie, you don’t need to

imagine anything, because it’s already there. You just need to watch it and understand the story,

but in a comic book, you need to read dialogues and immerse yourself into the artwork, and

according to the character’s dialogues and expressions, you have to imagine what’s actually

happening in there. It’s a unique and creative medium of storytelling.

Your website/apps / and contact details .

Visit our Website: https://www.culturepopcorn.com/
Mail Address: bang@culturepopcorn.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/culturepopcornindia/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Culture_POPcorn
Google: https://plus.google.com/+Culturepopcorn/