MUMBAI: In a first for the homegrown comics market, Toonsutrahas arrived on the scene as a webtoon comics platform for mobile devices for free download on both iOS and Android devices.
Toonsutra, a subsidiary of Graphic India, will launch in April to bring Indian audiences hundreds of high quality webtoon formatted comics optimised for mobile devices. The new platform will release new free storieseveryday from groundbreaking creators and storytellers in India as well as top global comics made available in India and in Hindi and other regional languages for the very first time.
The Toonsutraapp will feature a wide range of content for audiences across superhero, fantasy, romance, sci-fi, Bollywood, mythology, action, and more.
“Toonsutrawill become India’s new storytelling home for disruptive creators across the country to experiment, innovate and create engaging webtoon comic stories for the world,”Graphic India co-founder Sharad Devarajan said.“Webtoon platforms have become an explosive phenomenon across Asia with top webtoon apps cumulatively reaching over 70 million monthly users and over a 100 billion views a year. For the first time, we want to make a webtoon app dedicated for Indians and spark a mobile webcomic revolution.”
In addition to comics from around the world, the platform will showcase and promote emerging rising star creators across India and give them a home to tell there stories. Using the medium of comics and webtoons these new voices can express every type of genre and story all with the support, guidance and expertise of Toonsutra'steam to make it easy to collaborate with other creators, develop ideas and make those stories a reality.
On top of showcasing breakthrough Indian talents, Toonsutrawill also offer users exclusive original webcomics based on some of the country’s biggest hit properties in film and TV such as the mega-blockbuster filmBaahubali,and the recent animated hit streaming seriesThe Legend of Hanuman;as well as new original webtoon comics based onChakra The Invincible, the Indian superhero created by Stan Leeand Graphic India’s Devarajan.
Graphic India’s large library of comics will also be adapted into the vertical scroll webtoon reading format bringing their hit properties including,18 Days: The Mahabharata;the female super-heroine seriesDevicreated by filmmaker Shekhar Kapur as well as other Indian webcomics including,The Sadhu, Mistry P.I., Shadow Tiger, Unholi, Reincarnation Man, Shikari Force, The Mighty Yeti, Dragonfly, Avatarex Destroyer of Darkness,and many more.
The Toonsutraapp will feature international superhero comics from leading US publisher,Valiant Entertainmentbringing their hit charactersBloodshot, Shadowman, X-O Manowar, Harbinger, Archer & Armstrong, Ninjak, Raiand more to Indian audiences in Hindi for the first time.
