Newshunt, a news & eBooks app with over 20 million monthly active users and over 3 billion page views monthly, has partnered with Graphic India, the country’s premier digital comic company focused on creating characters, comics and stories through mobile and digital platforms.
The partnership will build a new comic offering on Newshunt’s successful platform, bringing hundreds of Graphic India’s digital comics to mobile devices across English, Hindi, Tamil, Telegu, Malayalam and other local languages. A vast majority of the comics will be made free for users of Newshunt and supported through advertising.
Newshunt, chief product officer, Vishal Anand commented: “Graphic India’s groundbreaking digital comics and creative content makes them the perfect partner to help Newshunt aggressively scale this new segment on our platform. We are thrilled to be working with them to bring characters and stories like Chakra The Invincible, Devi, 18 Days, Ramayan 3392AD and many more to new comic book readers all across the country through their mobile device.”
Graphic’s stories include, Chakra The Invincible, the first superhero for India from legendary Spider-Man and The Avengers creator, Stan Lee;18 Days, a reimagining of the Mahabharata, by acclaimed Batman comics writer, Grant Morrison; Sholay: Gabbar, featuring the never before seen backstory of cinematic villain, Gabbar Singh; Devi, a female superhero from acclaimed filmmaker, Shekhar Kapur;Ramayan 3392A.D., The Sadhuand many more.
Graphic India CEO & co-founder Sharad Devarajan added: “This amazing partnership with Newshunt will allow us to build a passionate community of superhero, sci-fi and mythology fans through Graphic’s content and characters. To help spark this new comic-culture in India, we will begiving awaydailydigital comics for free to NewsHunt users across all major Indian languages, reaching millions through mobile phones.”
