Barath Murthy writes up some thoughts on how to build a successful Indian comics publishing scene here;
This essay is a presentation of my views on the comics medium in India, and my solution for the growth of the form. These ideas are the result of the last few years spent trying to understand the medium. My background is in painting, (I studied painting in college) and I want to create as well as publish comics successfully to the end of my life. These views come from this commitment to the form. I also studied film making, and strangely enough, I had an opportunity to make a feature length documentary film in Japan about its vast self-published comics (doujinshi) culture. I learnt about the manga industry and found out why it is the the most successful comics industry in the world. I met many manga authors, publishers, printers, readers and realized how little westerners and Asians like us know about Japanese manga. Before making this film, I also sniffed around a little bit into the Indian comics scene, having received a grant from the India Foundation for the Arts, Bengaluru, to study Indian comics. I wrote a 5000 word essay about Indian comics which is to be published in Marg magazine. While doing this, I started a discussion forum on the Internet called Comix Discussion Board of iNDIA (CDBi) http://www.comixindia.com/cdbi .What follows is a ‘fact finding report’, and the ‘recommendations’ of this report on how we can have fun, make money and generally enjoy creating and consuming comics in India.
While we are on the topic, visit Barath Murthy’s site (we are wordpress theme-buddies), read his books, Learning to See and the Collected Blog Writings and then buy them. Also have a nose around the fascinating Comix.India site.