Nonte Fonte is a Bengali comic-strip creation of Narayan Debnath which originally was serialized for the children's monthly magazine Kishore Bharati. The stories featuring in the comic strips focusses ...

Eminent Indian cartoonist Narayan Debnath, creator of "Nonte Fonte" and "Bantul the Great", passed away in Kolkata on Tuesday (January 18) morning. He was 97 years old at the time of passing. The ...

Debnath breathed his last at around 10am at a private hospital in Kolkata on Tuesday, nearly a month after his admission, the Indian media reported. He was cremated in Howrah district’s Shibpur, where ...

The first and only Indian comic artist to have received a D.Litt degree, Debnath holds the record for the longest-running comic -- Handa Bhonda (1962)-- by an individual artist. The comic has been ...

On a particularly slow day, all I have to do is sit down with a Nonte-Phonte comic book, and my troubles will lay forgotten to one side. I imagine it's the same for most people who are fans of Narayan ...

For more than six decades a man entertained a series of generations with his magical comic strips and still now is considered one of the best sellers in Kolkata Book Fair, is none other than Narayan ...

The death of the comic artist and writer, Narayan Debnath, brought waves of nostalgia. Debnath regaled readers through such comic characters as ‘Nonte-Fonte’, ‘Bantul the Great’ and ‘Handa-Bhonda’.

Researcher Swati Moitra also concurs: Even before I could read, I would hold the Nonte Phonte comic books upside down and read out loud whatever I remembered from it, complete with sounds effects like ...

Comics. The very mention usually brings to mind Tintin or Asterix. These iconic com series have also been translated into Bengali. And then there was the Indrajaal series that brought to Bengali ...

Cartoonist Narayan Debnath, the creator of Bengali comic characters ‘Bantul The Great’, ‘Handa Bhonda’ and ‘Nonte Phonte, passed away after prolonged illness on Tuesday. He was 97. Kolkata, Jan 18 ...

Legendary cartoonist, noted illustrator and litterateur Narayan Debnath passed away in Kolkata on Tuesday, January 18, 2022. He was 96 and was undergoing treatment at a private hospital in the city ...

Cartoonist Narayan Debnath, the creator of famous Bengali comic characters ‘Nonte Phonte’, ‘Bantul The Great’, ‘Handa Bhonda’, passed away in Kolkata on January 18, 2022, at the age of 97. Narayan ...