Stan Lee, Grant Morrison, Deepak Chopra partner with Graphic India to bring out digital comics

NEW DELHI: Comic greats Stan Lee and Grant Morrison together with Indian-American author and wellness guru Deepak Chopra have partnered with publisher Graphic India to bring out digital comics to raise money for charities in India. Under the partnership, comics written by Lee, Morrison and Chopra are being offered exclusively as a package on Humble Bundle, a pay-what-you-want programme that works with publishers to offer huge collections of comics in one go.

The deal includes a global exclusive release of the first chapter of the superhero comic book Avatarex, a sequel to the epic Mahabarata set in modern India by Morrison, who has authored bestsellers like Batman. The announcement was made by the writer on Thursday at the ongoing Comic-Con event at San Diego. Avatarex is the first digital venture by Morrison, whose retelling of the Mahabharata in comic book format '18 days' with illustrations by Mukesh Singh was published in 2010.