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A great deal of discussion followed on a number of topics, including the crucial question of whether, when the warrior Arjuna disguised himself as a dancing teacher, he was a) in drag, b) temporarily a eunuch due to a curse, c) temporarily a hermaphrodite, d) temporarily impotent.
I grew up on these comics and I love them, but the art is variable, to say the least. The artist who did "Tansen" and "Mirabai" did beautiful work, but I still cannot wrap my mind around the images in "Karna," in which that tragic son of the Sun looks like a perky sixteen-year-old girl with a sixties flip hairdo and gigantic blue plastic earrings.
telophase has posted some rather hilarious images from Indian comic books to reading_maha. A great deal of discussion followed on a number of topics, including the crucial question of whether, when the warrior Arjuna disguised himself as a dancing teacher, he was a) in drag, b) temporarily a eunuch due to a curse, c) temporarily a hermaphrodite, d) temporarily impotent.
I grew up on these comics and I love them, but the art is variable, to say the least. The artist who did "Tansen" and "Mirabai" did beautiful work, but I still cannot wrap my mind around the images in "Karna," in which that tragic son of the Sun looks like a perky sixteen-year-old girl with a sixties flip hairdo and gigantic blue plastic earrings.