Joshy Benedict is a National Award-winning animator, freelance artist, and comic book writer. He started his career as an artist after earning a degree from the Government College of Fine Arts in Thrissur. Joshy’s graphic novel Pig Flip, translated into English by K. K. Murlidharan, was published by HarperCollins India. His work blends humor with social commentary, reflecting his keen observations of contemporary life.

​Likla Lall writes children's books about art with Art1st. She is the author of the IPPY award-winning Art is a Verb and the evocative Somnath Hore: Wounds. Passionate about experimenting with narrative formats, she is a creator at PanicNot!, a storytelling collective and community. Likla is also a regular contributor to the WinC (Women in Comics) Magazine in New York. Beyond her love for books, she finds joy in a lifelong practice of dance and movement.

Sharad Sharma is an Indian cartoonist and founder of World Comics Network. Through World Comics India, founded in the late 1990s, he pioneered the concept of grassroots comics, empowering people to express themselves through simple storytelling. His cartoon strip Developmentoon has been published internationally. Sharad has worked with small organizations in remote areas to initiate social campaigns on issues like infanticide, foeticide, corporal punishment, and stereotypes, using grassroots comics as a tool for social change.

Arunava Banerjee is an independent new media scholar exploring the intersection of comics studies and the arts for over a decade. With MA degrees in English and Film Studies from Jadavpur University, his research focuses on how form evolves within the comics medium, particularly in relation to poetry and cinema. He has curated comics exhibitions at the Alipore Jail Museum and contributed to anthologies like Famine Tales (2022) and Max the Demon of Entropy (2025) for Jadavpur University Press. He is currently Senior Communications Associate at the Council on Energy, Environment and Water, New Delhi.

Kripa is a Children’s book illustrator based in Mumbai. She took up teaching Art and Design after completing Fine Art from Sir JJ school of Art. She has been an Art educator, and worked with institutions like Srishti school of Art design and technology. She is a visiting faculty at The Ecole Intuit Lab in Mumbai. Her book Art is a Voice recently won the Sustainability Award from the Bologna Children’s Book Fair.

​Canato Jimo is an artist, illustrator, and picture-book maker from Nagaland, currently working as an art director at Pratham Books. He has illustrated picture books like The Very Wiggly Tooth and Bobo and the Worms, and has both written and illustrated Asamo, Is That You? (with Ogin Nayam) and Snip, a wordless picture book for emergent readers. His work, inspired by everyday life, is characterized by detailed and vivid illustrations that bring his stories to life.

Harsho Mohan Chattoraj is a graphic novelist and illustrator based in Kolkata. With two decades of experience in the comics medium, he has created artwork for publishers and commercial clients across India, Switzerland, the UK, and the US. Known for his intricate and evocative style, his recent works include Pagla Sahib’s Grave, Destiny Awakes, Chotushkone. He has also worked as a journalist, visualiser, storyboard artist, voice-over artist and promo producer.​

Haris Qadeer teaches at the Department of English, University of Delhi. He was a visiting fellow at Potsdam University, Germany (2019), and King’s College, London (2022). An accomplished translator, he brings stories and poems from Hindi and Urdu into English. His editorial work includes Sultana’s Sisters: Genre, Gender, and Genealogy in South Asian Muslim Women’s Fiction (Routledge, 2021) and Medical Maladies: Stories on Disease and Cure from Indian Languages (2022).

Rohan is the creator of Green Humour, a celebrated series of comics and illustrations on wildlife and nature conservation. He has authored seven books, including Green Humour for a Greying Planet, Naturalist Ruddy, Pugmarks and Carbon Footprints, and has received awards from UNDP, Sanctuary Asia, WWF International, the Royal Bank of Scotland, and the Green and Bangalore Literature Festivals.

Sarbajit Sen is a cartoonist, graphic artist, and filmmaker. Over the past two decades, he has contributed comic strips and cartoons to leading dailies like The Statesman, The Economic Times, and Ajkal in Kolkata. His debut film, Painting in Time, won the National Award for Best Film on Art & Culture in 1995. His graphic narrative The Divine Escape, was featured at the Mangasia: Wonderland of Asian Comics exhibition at the Barbican Centre, London. 

Onkar Nath Bhattacharya is a self-taught illustrator, painter, children's book writer, and comics artist. One of the leading comics artists from Bengal, he is known for bringing iconic Bengali characters like Byomkesh Bakshi to life through comics. His illustrated book Jhummi, a heartwarming tale of a street dog, became a bestseller in the Bengali literary world. Currently, he documents his children's daily adventures through a humorous comic series, blending personal storytelling with playful artistry.