Narayan Debnath

Who is Narayan Debnath?

Narayan Debnath is senior and popular comics-artist of India, who is the creator of popular Bengali comics including ‘Handa Bhonda’, ‘Batul The Great’ and ‘Nonte Phonte’. He holds the record of longest running comics by an individual artiste for Handa Bhonda comics series which have now completed its continuous 52 years of running.

His other creations include Detective ‘Koushik Roy’, ‘Bahadur Beral’, ‘Danpite Khadu Aar Tar Chemical Dadu’, etc. Having contributed to the early development of Bangla comics and its growth in a career spanning more than fifty years, he is still read in West Bengal, India and Bangladesh. Apart from comic books and strips, Narayan Debnath is also an artist who has illustrated several children's novels. Many of his comics are serialized in popular children’s magazines published from Kolkata including Shuktara and Kishor Bharati

In 2011, Narayan Debnath Comics Samagra was published by Lalmati publication in four volumes, which includes all his comics characters together for last 50 years. The Executive Board of the Sahitya Akademi chose Narayan Debnath’s Comics Samagra for its Bal Sahitya Puraskar for 2013.