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Narayan Debnath ((ベンガル語:নারায়ণ দেবনাথ) born in 1925 ) is senior and popular comics-artist of India, who is the creator of popular Bengali comics including 'Handa Bhonda' (in ''Shuktara'' magazine since 1962), 'Batul The Great'(in ''Shuktara'' magazine since 1965) and 'Nonte Phonte'(in ''Kishor Bharati'' magazine since 1969). He holds the record of longest running comics by an individual artiste for ''Handa Bhonda'' comics series which have now completed its continuous 53 years of running. He is the first and only Comics-Artist in India who has received D.Lit degree (Doctor of Literature). His other creations include Detective 'Koushik Roy' (in ''Shuktara'' magazine from 1976), 'Bahadur Beral' (in ''Shuktara'' magazine from 1983), 'Danpite Khadu Aar Tar Chemical Dadu' (in ''Chotoder Ashore'' magazine from 1983), 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 serialised in popular children's magazines published from Kolkata including ''Shuktara'' and ''Kishor Bharati'' ==Early life== Narayan Debnath was born and spent most of his life living in Shibpur, Howrah, India. His family hailed from Bikrampur in what is now in Bangladesh but had migrated to Shibpur before his birth. In an interview published in ''Narayan Debnath Comics Samagra'', published by Lalmati, Debnath confessed to being interested in the visual arts from a very early age. The family business was retailing gold and he had ample scope to design patterns for jewellery. During the time of World War II, Debnath would study fine arts at the Indian Art College for five years. He did not continue to get his degree but instead discontinued in his final year. For the next few years he freelanced for advertising agencies creating movie slides and logos. In 1950 he was introduced to Dev Sahitya Kutir, a major publishing house through a friend. People such as Pratul Chandra Banerjee, Shailo Chakraborty, Balaibandhu Roy, and Purnachandra Chakraborti were associated with the press at the time. From 1950 to 1961 he illustrated a number of children's books including adventure novels and Western classics in translation. His journey in Comics world started in 1962 with 'Handa-Bhonda' in ''Suktara''. He began as a freelancing comics-artist and soon went for comics on his own . However, when still a struggler-freelancer, he was instructed by the publisher to adopt 'well accepted foreign comics' to made comics for their magazine(s) to get easy business. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Narayan Debnath」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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