First Hand: Graphic Non-Fiction from India - Volume 1

First Hand Volume 1 a collection of new non-fiction graphic narratives features works by independent writers artists reporters researchers designers anthropologists academicians and filmmakers based in India who comment on and describe their world through comics in six genres: biography autobiography oral history documentary commentary and reportage. By combining image and word to tell stories that range from urgent contemporary narratives to more exploratory historical perspectives to simply the extraordinary lives of ordinary people First Hand: Volume 1 offers new worlds through which we can re-enter our own. Whether it be reporting the murder of an RTI applicant or an account of the Gujarat riots or a biography of Begum Akhtar or a narrative about becoming familiar with one’s city through the use of its public transport system each comic tells the story of an Indian reality bringing alive what has only been encountered in word till now visually.