A student of Indian College of Arts and Draftsmanship, Kolkata, he was greatly influenced by then famous Bengali illustrator Pratulchandra Bandyopadhyay. In spite of the reluctance of his father Hemchandra Debnath who was a goldsmith, Narayan Debnath, born in 1925, pursued his passion and started drawing from the age of 12-13. He is the only comic artist to have been honoured with a Doctorate in Literature, and has ruled the Bangla comics and illustrations scene from 1962 till date. Narayan Debnath’s works were regularly published in Shuktara, a then prominent Bangla magazine from the house of Deb Sahitya Kutir Publishers. Born and having lived all his life in Shibpur, a suburb in the city of Howrah, 9 km west of Kolkata, this wonder-artist’s characters Bantul the Great, Handa Bhonda, Nonte Fonte, Bahadur Beral, Detective Koushik Roy among others are an inseparable part of the lives of Bengali kids born prior the internet age. Few comic writers/artists like Narayan Debnath can have the record of continuing their gigs single handedly for more than 60 years.
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