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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
