Parents, students and comic fans assembled in a retail outlet in the city to interact with British graphic novelist Tony Lee. Lee was in Bangalore as a part of Lit Sutra, a programme of cultural relations through reading and writing, organised by the British
Council.
The journalist-turned-author spoke about his evolution as a comic writer to his young fans. “I used to read comic books when I was seven years old. I have been writing for different forms of media and finally started writing graphic novels.” On the film adaptations of his books, Lee said, “Many times, the adaptations just take the name of the protagonist; the plot will be completely different from that of the original book. But there are movies like Batman, which are done really well.”
The council held a drawing competition for children. The participants of the competition drew their own versions of characters that appear in Lee’s novel like
Robin Hood,
Dr Who,
King Arthur,
X-Men,
Spider Man and
Dracula. “Indian students are pretty good. The biggest difference between interacting with children in India and other countries is that students here are familiar with my works,” he said.
