Saurav Mohapatra

Saurav Mohapatra
Saurav Mohapatra Saurav Mohapatra
Born	1978 Khurda, India
Occupation	Comic Book Writer
Nationality	Indian
Period	2006 –
Website
http://www.mohaps.com

Saurav Mohapatra is an Indian comic book writer based out of California, USA. His credits include the Devi (#11 onwards), The Sadhu : "The Silent Ones" and Deepak Chopra's India Authentic from Virgin Comics. He is the co-creator/writer of the crime-noir comic book series Mumbai Confidential from Archaia. His latest work is adaptation of Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s Chander pahar into a graphic novel called Moon Mountain.

Biography

Born in 1978 in Khurda, India, Mohapatra attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and later emigrated to United States in 2000.

He is also the co-founder of Dimdim inc., an open source web conferencing company. Mohapatra stayed in Hyderabad for some time while working for Dimdim in India.

Mohapatra is married and has two pet cats named "foo" and "bar" ( from Foobar). He plays baseball - and played cricket for Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur team.

Bibliography

• Mumbai Confidential (Archaia) [4]
• Witchblade (issues 140-141 co-written with Ron Marz (Top Cow) [5]
• India Authentic (Virgin Comics)
• Devi #11-onwards (Virgin Comics)
• The Sadhu : "The Silent Ones" (Virgin Comics)
• Jimmy Zhingchak - Agent of D.I.S.C.O. (one shot) (Virgin Comics)
• Mumbai Macguffin (one shot) (Virgin Comics)

See also

• Indian comics
• Virgin Comics

References

• Devi #11 on Forbidden Planet [6]
• India Authentic #1 Ganesha on Mile High Comics [7]
• Saurav Mohapatra's Website and Blog- [8]
• Ron Marz interview on Newsarama [9]
• Dimdim Management Team [10]
• Creator details page at Archaia [11]

External links

• Saurav Mohapatra's profile at ComicSpace