Amar Chitra Katha scripts comeback with Mother Teresa

ACK Media, the publisher of the country’s largest selling comic book series, Amar Chitra Katha, is launching a new title on Mother Teresa after a hiatus of four years.

Savita Pai, vice-president, product management, ACK Media, said: “Mother Teresa is a figure of international acclaim. Despite being an Albanian by birth, she devoted her life to this country. Our new title will celebrate her 100th birth anniversary.”

“Our last title was launched in 2006. With the title on Mother Teresa, we will initiate the launch of a new line of ACK series, based on characters across the entire gamut of history, mythology, epics, fables and classical literature,” Pai said. The new titles will be launched every two months, starting August 2010.

 

Apart from the title on Mother Teresa, five more titles are in the pipeline. Work is at an advanced stage and the products are expected to be launched over a year.

The titles would adhere to the traditional ACK format of story telling. Modern technology would be used to sharpen graphic representations of characters.

Apart from the print version, the title on Mother Teresa would be available online at the group’s website, indiaplaza, indiatimes, flipkart. It would also be available on Vodafone and iPhone as a mobile comic, and on Amazon and Kindle.

Since its launch in 1967, Amar Chitra Katha has been sold 90 million copies in more than 20 languages. The imprint has more than 300 titles that retell stories from Indian epics, mythology, history, folklore, and fables in a comic book format.

It was created by Anant Pai and published by India Book House. In 2007, the imprint and all its titles were acquired by a new venture, called ACK Media. On September 17, 2008, a new website by ACK Media was launched.

ACK is into the production of audio and video animated contents, apart from the publication of pictorial magazines and comic books.