[Reader-list] [Announcements] Attn: The Second Comic Book Reading

[Amitabh Kumar]

Sarai-CSDS and the French Information  Resource Center (FIRC) have  
collaborated to produce a series of events to popularize and promote  
a wider dissemination of comic books, graphic novels and graphic  
literature

The first such event made its debut with Orijit Sen talking about his  
work and practice in FIRC on the 26th of October 2007.

Continuing this effort to popularise comics practice in India, we are  
happy to announce  the second Comic Book Reading with Shuddhabrata  
Sengupta.

Date: 14th  November 2007

Time:5:00 p.m

Venue: Sarai- CSDS,

               29,Rajpur Road,

               Civil Lines

                Delhi-110054

  Shuddabrata Sengupta  will be talking about 'THE INVISIBLES' comic  
book series.



What is THE INVISIBLES ?

Considered by many as the blueprint on which various super hero  
saga's (like the Matrix) have been based, the plot follows  a single  
cell of The Invisible College, a secret organization battling against  
physical and psychic oppression using time travel , magic ,  
meditation , and physical violence. For most of the series, the team  
includes leader King Mob; Lord Fanny, a Brazilian transgendered  
shaman; Boy, a former member of the NYPD; Ragged Robin, a telepath  
with a mysterious past; and Jack Frost, a young hooligan from  
Liverpool who may be the next Buddha. Their enemies are the Archons  
of Outer Church, interdimensional alien gods who have already  
enslaved most of the human race without its knowledge.

Every conspiracy theory you've ever heard, every urban legend that  
stretches our perception of reality is true. Those in authority  
really are working from ancient, Freemason-approved schematics  
designs to alter the world and corral individuality. The anarchists  
are in the right, and there really are subliminal advertisements in  
the commercials for cereal and Must-See TV meant to keep the great  
unwashed subservient and stupid.

As a comic, you can't get much better a premise to use the  
conventions of the medium. The cosmos, machinery, violence,  
dimensional hopscotch and dramatic poses . It's a counterculture  
battle. And those who would demand more from such a story need only  
follow a reference to McKenna, the I Ching, voodoo, sigils and  
cyberpunk. And those who would demand even more can follow the  
philosophical implications of human evolution helped along by a game  
including transvestites, blue mold and Molotov cocktails.




Shuddabrata Sengupta is a co-initiator of the Sarai Programme at the  
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and a media  
practitioner, artist and writer with the Raqs Media Collective.  
Sengupta lives and works in Delhi, India. Raqs Media Collective works  
in contemporary art, media practices, and curation. Sengupta works at  
the Sarai Media Lab and is member of the editorial collective of the  
Sarai Reader Series.
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