Chacha Chaudhary, created by Pran Kumar Sharma, is among India's best-loved children's comic characters. Over the decades, the comics have inspired millions of daydreams about fantastic adventures. A couple of years ago, the turbanned character inspired Delhi cartoonist Sumit Kumar to create some ingenious fan art: he decided to mash up the worlds of Chacha Chaudhary and Tintin, Georges Remi's classic boy detective.
Sumir Kumar has been a former writer for the Savita Bhabhi erotica series and in 2011 was part of the team that organised the first Comic Con in India in, a comic book convention that is an annual event in the US.
Here are the adventures of the character Kumar calls Chinchin.
However, not everyone is impressed. Here's one counterpoint.
Credit: Sumit Kumar
Corrections and clarifications: An earlier version of this article had suggested that Kumar created Chinchin after Pran Kumar Sharma's death in August. The work was actually created earlier.
Sumir Kumar has been a former writer for the Savita Bhabhi erotica series and in 2011 was part of the team that organised the first Comic Con in India in, a comic book convention that is an annual event in the US.
Here are the adventures of the character Kumar calls Chinchin.
However, not everyone is impressed. Here's one counterpoint.
Good concept, but sad to know whom most Indians imagine as racialized Others. | http://t.co/H7WKKXBlkH via @SahilRiz pic.twitter.com/IgMSpUSf0C
— Mario da Penha (@mlechchha) September 25, 2014Credit: Sumit Kumar
Corrections and clarifications: An earlier version of this article had suggested that Kumar created Chinchin after Pran Kumar Sharma's death in August. The work was actually created earlier.
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