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Wilf Day
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posted 08 February 2004 03:58 PM
To confess my ignorance, I've just found India has for the past two years had a daily comic strip called Dubyaman, in their largest daily, with a circulation of 2.2 million. I see that it
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catapulted President George W. Bush into Indian fame as an idiot Superhero. Since then, the cartoon has lampooned the U.S. president every day in the pages of the country's most widely circulated English language newspaper. It is India's most popular comic, and its popularity has only increased since the war on Iraq. . . Dubyaman, with pumped up biceps under a tight blue bodysuit, emblazoned with a red W, with a red cape flying behind him and a goofy look of existential perplexity on his face. . . .He has regular chats with an ineffective, gluttonous Indian prime minister and is regularly duped by a scheming Pakistani president. But mostly, Dubyaman flies around mispronouncing the names of the places he has bombed and crashing into world monuments, and battling his primary nemesis, the Statue of Liberty. Dubyaman is something which is unprecedented. There has never been a comic strip about a current politician in the Indian English language press.
You can see a bunchhere. [ 08 February 2004: Message edited by: Wilfred Day ]
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