Bangalore: Liquid Comics that owns comic libraries based on Indian characters by Indian creators have launched ‘Graphic India’, a new digital platform to promote comic books in India and showcase young artists and writers in the country.

Graphic India intends to be India’s premiere graphic novel platform and community, leveraging Liquid’s large library of high quality content created by Indian creators, while also aggressively commissioning and showcasing numerous original stories by India’s greatest new visionaries.

Co-Founded by entrepreneurs, Sharad Devarajan, Gotham Chopra and Suresh Seetharaman, Liquid Comics is a digital entertainment company focused on creating cinematic and mythic graphic novel stories with filmmakers, creators and storytellers. The company uses the medium of digital graphic novel publishing to develop properties for theatrical live-action films, animation and video games. Liquid Comics currently has a number of film and television projects in development based on their properties.

Sharad Devarajan, Co-Founder and CEO, Liquid Comics, said that India is a home to some of the most creative minds in the world, and they believe that the country is ready to change the world through their stories. Through Graphic India, they want to find, nurture and promote these creators, leveraging the power of digital media to potentially reach millions around the world.

Deverajan is a media entrepreneur, creator and producer. Prior to this, he was the Co-Founder, CEO and Publisher of Virgin Comics and Virgin Animation, a set of companies he and his partners originally co-founded in 2005, with Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, author Deepak Chopra and filmmaker Shekhar Kapur. In 2008, they renamed the company as Liquid Comics. Prior to forming Liquid Comics, Devarajan was Co-Founder and CEO of Gotham Entertainment group. Before this, he worked with Marvel to reinvent Spider-Man as an Indian boy growing up in Mumbai. He holds a BFA from Syracuse Univerisity, where he has also served as a Visiting Professor to Fine Arts undergraduate students, and an MBA from Columbia University where he is an Adjunct Associate Professor regularly teaching, Media Marketing and Entrepreneurship, at Columbia Business School.

Over the next few months, Graphic India intends to expand its digital platform across mobile through various partnerships and apps. Beyond digital comics, content will soon include episodic animated shows, digital trading cards and social games based on Liquid’s leading character properties.