Liquid Comics

Liquid Comics is a New York-based comics company, which completed a management buyout of Virgin Comics on September 24, 2008.  The management buyout of Virgin Comics led by the founding management team of Gotham Chopra, Sharad Devarajan  and Suresh Seetharaman. Liquid Comics will continue to develop innovative digital, film, animation, and gaming projects for its original character, stories and other properties.

Founded in 2006 by Richard Branson, Deepak Chopra and more (including Chopra’s awesomely named son, Gotham), Virgin Comics launched with a simple mission: Bring international narratives, especially those of indigenous Asia, to America and beyond.

Commenting on the change, Sharad Devarajan said, “Virgin Group has been a fantastic partner with whom to work and together we have established a strong foundation of great character properties and media partnerships.

We remain fully committed to continuing our mission to provide a home for innovative creators and storytellers across the world.” .

Liquid Comics’ mission is not really different than Virgin Comics, just smaller, tighter, and more focused, says Gotham Chopra.  The mission is really to look to India and its creators for their creative potential, “we think of our guys as a source of innovation, creativity, and imagination as opposed to outsourcers or  back office guys that should be coloring in pictures for big western media companies”, adds Chopra.

The art of Jeevan Kang, Mukesh Sing, Dean Hyrapiet, and Edison George to name a few speaks for itself. It’s on part with the best in the world and they are collaborating with the likes of John Woo, Guy Ritchie, Deepak Chopra, Nic Cage, Grant Morrison, big media companies like Sci Fi channel, Freemantle Media and more so it’s not really what they are aiming to do but what they are doing.

They believe that the next big iconic franchises will be born out of India and her imagination. “We have such a dynamic and rich culture – full of the divine and the diabolical, sacred and profane, beautiful and ugly – an hour in India is an intoxification of the senses so there is no shortage of ideas and stimuli to draw from…”, says Gotham.