Tinkle Comics

Book Reviewed By: George Panikar Joyal- MBA-I

This is very well produced had boned set. It has not just the classic memorable stories it every indeed tinkle covers from the every days and stories behind the original create at Tinkle it also world great to get the little ones to reading it invades the first appearance of iconic Tinkle tons such as supped shabby char taka, Kaila the crow doab -doom and read warm summer evening; you have just come home after playing with your friends. The moment you enter, you see a fresh new Tinkle waiting to be read. You flip through the pages, and finish it within minutes. But that’s not enough; you keep re-reading it till you memories every single word. When someone says children books, the first thing that pops in a 80’s kid mind is Tinkle! That’s the impact of Tinkle on all our childhoods. There’s a reason why Tinkle is one of the most revered childhood story books in the country. They were among the most confiscated books in school, the books siblings who grew up in the 1980s and the 1990s would fight over. Free periods were idled away by telling each other jokes from the books, and guffawing incessantly after. Long train journeys to one’s grandparents’ place in the sweltering summer were thoroughly enjoyable thanks to the company they provided. We would run through them so quickly, driven by the anticipation of buying the subsequent volume at the next big station. Their dimensions were so perfect that slipping a book into a science textbook was ever so easy; our unsuspecting mothers would never know. It’s been a long time since the first issue of Tinkle was released in November 1980. ‘Shari’ Shamburg is now a conservationist, Spandex has a girlfriend, and Tanti is finally King. Kaila the crow hits the Big Four-Oh next year. He’s become more complex over the years, expanding his social circles as he moved from the little forest he was born in, to colorful Big Baan. He is not the only character from the well-loved Tinkle universe that is suddenly all grown up. Tantric the Mantra, the prime minister who was as incompetent as he was ambitious, has finally become king, after just four decades of devious plotting.

The feel of the comic we had in the 80s’, the simplicity of it, has somewhat been lost over the decades. I was never a fan of the ‘Tinkle Digest’ of the 90s’, though they provided with more stories at the expense of size. Over the years my Tinkle collection has been misplaced, borrowed or just lost. My younger brother still has his collection though, his subscription running throughout his childhood and teenage years. Last time when we visited my hometown, the twins were all over the comics, we even got some of them with us. Hence when I saw this collection of ‘Tinkle Origins’ I knew, I had to buy them for the kids. Tinkle Origins Pack of 10 contains issues from the early years of Tinkle. It has issues from the December 1980 to March 1998The format is the same art style with which you were familiar with as a childhood.