Harappa between the lines

Nikhil Gulati and Jonathan Mark Kenoyer provide a clean but unconventional look at history

The people of the Indus and the birth of civilisation in South Asia

Authors:  Nikhil Gulati  and Jonathan Mark Kenoyer 

Publisher: Penguin

Pages: 192 (Hardcover)

Price: Rs 510

Ligne claire or the “clear line” sub-genre of comic art was pioneered by Hergé, renowned author of The Adventures of Tintin. The term was coined in 1977 by another follower of the unique drawing style, Dutch cartoonist Joost Swarte. Today, even as the term has expanded into a broad category of comic art styles, two central aspects remain — cartoonish or abstract-seeming characters set against detailed but clean-drawn backgrounds.

Of the several comics artists who have adopted and adapted