Arun Prasad
Arun Prasad is an historian specialised in the history of karnataka, a comics archivist and a pannapictagraphist. He is also a researcher, freelance writer and columnist on the heritage of Bangalore
and presently the Project & Research Head of Discover Bengaluru, an organisation documenting the Bangalore city's heritage and history.
His comics collection includes more than 17,000 rare and old Indian/Western comics including rarest of Amar Chitra Katha, Indrajal Comics, Tinkle, Mandrake the Magician and The Phantom.
He also possesses the complete collection of Indrajal Comics.
Awards and recognition
- He was described and called as "one of India's most serious comic collectors" and "India's comic king" by the Mid-Day Magazine in December 2013.
- In August 2014 he was one of the featured collectors on The Great India Collectors Ride.
- He won Indian Comics Fandom Award 2014 for Best Comics Collector in November 2014.
- One of the featured Pannapictagraphists in daily e-paper World Comics & Graphic Novels News published by Freelance talents.