Comments on Comicology: Chandamama - Collectors Edition | 2008

3rd part of texwiller story is still not released ...

2011-06-26T04:16:06.192+05:30

3rd part of texwiller story is still not released from lion comics. Vijayan sir - dont make us to wait too long

Simply Superb

2011-06-26T04:16:05.785+05:30

Simply Superb

Expecting the review of Ramayan.... THe Aug Chanda...

2011-06-26T04:16:05.328+05:30

Expecting the review of Ramayan.... THe Aug Chandamama had a CD with Jan - Jun 2007 archives of Chandamama

@ Anony: Who can forget Balamitra, which went toe to toe with Chandamama, during its golden run. I actually liked Balamitra more than Chandamama, in it's later days.

Unfortunately, I had to shed my Chandamama and Balamitra collection, in order to safeguard other relics from its time. Partly due to space constraint. I would try to source some Balamitra edition, and would plan for a post with the same.

Keep visiting dude, and by the way do consider leaving a nickname at least in your next visit. It does help to recognize your revisits.

Hello Co-visitors. Happy to revisit the good old c...

2010-08-13T02:47:06.492+05:30

Hello Co-visitors.
Happy to revisit the good old childhood memories. I have seen lot of people appreciating the chandamama series and their archives.. I too enjoy reading them from the archives. But I used to like Balamitra equally. I request you (any one who is visiting or the author) to provide any kind of links or source to find some mid 90's balamitra magazines (atleast a scanned copy of yours uploaded).

Waiting for links...from all the comic lovers...
Once again..good contribution...

@ Priya: Who cannot admit that their childhood was made more fun and richer, by Chandamama, among many others. Art works were down right in line with our culture, and the stories were such moral boosting, and path showing.

As you pointed out, the current version is a poor shadow of it's former glorious self. It's quite ironic, that when the print and presentation medium has improved for betterment, the quality of the artwork and stories have nosedived to oblivion. The paper quality is shining, but too thin, that it spoils the moment you start flipping them while reading. Overall, a total disappointment, to say the least.

But, I doubt about the comic not coming in market on time. I have been seeing the Monthly editions on stands right by the 1st week of the month, and since I subscribe, I get it a couple of days earlier to that even. This I refer to, as experience from Chennai. Is it differing in any way in other cities ?

And thanks much for alerting me on the availability of a look-a-like Chandamama, by name of Chandrabala. I went through the site, and was impressed that Shaktidas is still active in reviving the old Chandamama ways in his new magazine. I am planning to subscribe for the English edition, and would reserve an article for the same over here at Comicology, in near future.

Thanks for your visit and informational comment. Looking forward for your presence among us, more than ever.

Chandamama is really a great treat in my childhood...

2010-03-18T14:29:21.518+05:30

Chandamama is really a great treat in my childhood, I use to read chandamama every month and the art works was really good.

But it is very sad to see that the magazine gone done in quality and the magazine also not coming in the market in time.

But the great thing is when i went to market to buy chandamama last month i saw a magazine called chandrabala which is coming from august 2009. The art work and content was good and came to know that the publisher and the editor is Mr shakthidass who did cover design for chandamama after Vapa. I was really impressed when i checked their website. www.chandrabala.com

@ Chandamama: Dear Chandamama Team, I hope ...

2010-01-02T01:26:56.538+05:30

@ Chandamama: Dear Chandamama Team, I hope that your noble venture of honoring the creators behind those classic stories. Something, which our Indian publishers, generaly feel finicky about.

Wish you all the best on your search, and looking forward to read their history.

By the way, the archive pages of Chandamama... are well maintained. Congrats on the same.

Dear Chandamama Readers and well wishers We are c...

2009-12-23T12:54:28.359+05:30

Dear Chandamama Readers and well wishers

We are collecting the life history and art drawing detals of the greatest artists of Chandamama - chitra, MTV Acharya, Sankar, Vapa etc- We have already collected 100 pages data on Chitra, Sankar, Vapa with their photos. but we are having very little info on MTV Acharya till now. We dont know about his biodata and other details in brief.

Can you pleace send the information on Sri MTV Acharya in English and Kannada langugaes for chandamama history sake? Pleace send any data,links, urls, websites which reveals the legend artist of Chandamama -MTV Acharya gaaru- to my below mentioned email ids.

krajasekhara@gmail.com (personal)

rajasekhara.raju@chandamama.com (offcial)

K.Raja Sekhara Raju.

Associate Editor
Chandamama -Telugu-

NB: Old copies of Chandamama -from 1947 to 2000- are avilble in Chandamama online now. pls see this link and select your language, year, month for see your respective languages.

http://www.chandamama.com/archive/storyArchive.php?lng=TEL
http://www.chandamama.com/archive/storyArchive.php

Thank you Rafiq Raja ji for providing best flatform to share with Chandamama readers

@ அம்புலிமாமா: Dear Ambulimama Team, It&#...

2009-10-29T22:01:11.216+05:30

@ அம்புலிமாமா: Dear Ambulimama Team,

It's so good to have the presence of Admins behind our childhood favorite magazine, Chandamama, on Comicology. I have been closely watching the developments which are going on in the website, and I am amazed by the amount of detail by which it is getting updated on a regular basis. In particular, the ARCHIVES section of old magazines.

Wish you many more entertaining days with Chandamama, and thanks much for those sweet comments about our blog.

Really wonderfull service you are doing. this is t...

2009-10-12T15:42:39.213+05:30

Really wonderfull service you are doing. this is the best place for the people who fond of comics and children stories. chandamama's website has been updated and included with lot of attractive features. the address is www.chandamama.com.

And the good news for Tamil அம்புலிமாமா reades is, all the issues (from 1947) and old advts from www.ambulimama.com.

keep up the great work

Ambulimama team

@ Joe: Good to meet another Chandamama fan,...

2009-10-01T15:09:00.227+05:30

@ Joe: Good to meet another Chandamama fan, Joe (who is not :)). The archives of all Chandamama from the past were available ordered sequentially on chandamama official website itself, some months back. Even I was astonished to see their willingness to share their precious collection in such an open forum.

But, it seemed that the idea was too much for them, and it was taken offline. Now only a handful of collection is online in protected format, on their website, and they promise to keep adding to the list as time progresses.

And when you buy Chandamama monthly edition, sometimes they used to give you an archive cd of past issues as a gift. It used to be a regular feature a year back, but now that is reserved only for occassions. Poor we :) :(.

Hello friends, I am a fan of Chandamama. I was won...

2009-10-01T13:42:37.822+05:30

Hello friends,
I am a fan of Chandamama. I was wondering if any of you know if one could access editions from 1947 onwards. Is there any archive of there is an archive in the book form.

@ Raju: So good to have an official face of...

2009-09-30T23:21:20.893+05:30

@ Raju: So good to have an official face of Chandamama on our humble blog. Nobody can deny the fact and joy they enjoyed during their childhood reading one of the best Childrens' magazines that time. So, it's good to see that they are coming up with multiple language blogs to connect with all those cherished readers.

I only wish that this increased focus also pushes them to realign their efforts in bringing back the past glory to their current line-up. It's so sorry to see the poor worked editorial efforts which is felt all through the pages, even thought in a better format available at present. Hope good sense prevails finally.

I can't read Telugu, but I can visualize the amount of information your blog has on the history of Chandamama by browsing through the posts. Would love to read them in a translated manner, for which I will use some of Telugu friends. Keep the great work going.

Dear All Very happy to meet all chandamama fans an...

2009-09-29T19:55:48.302+05:30

Dear All
Very happy to meet all chandamama fans and well wishers, Please see my blog on entire Chandamama History and memories of Chandamama in Telugu only..

blaagu.com/chandamamalu

pls forward this blog link your telugu friends anywhare in the world.. I think Chandamama is creating it's own blogs in all online languages it is starting (six languges till now) for contacting and communicating with the chandamama fans.

please canvey your openions on chandamam to these links mentioned below''

feedback@chandamama.com (English)
abhiprayam@@chandamama.com (Telugu)
abhipray@chandamama.com (hindi)
online@chandamama.com ( online editor)
editor@chandamama.com (Chandamama Editor)

I will tell Tamil, Kannada, Marathi languages feedback link tomorow

K.Raja Sekhara Raju
Associate Editor
Online Chandamama (Telugu)
telugu.chandamam.com

@ Keshav: Good to meet another Chandamama ...

2009-08-26T15:44:02.988+05:30

@ Keshav: Good to meet another Chandamama fan, which we never have a dearth among all the 80's and 90's generation.

It's true, Chandamama had such a good competition among many other magazines, but it's true form of individuality coupled with wonderful illustrations, made it a whirlwind success.

I pretty much would have liked their existence to continue, but at present, the quality of their editions are such lowly that we couldn't compare it with their golden genre. For that fact, isn't all the present day long running magazines suffering from a similar fate ??

It should be appreciated that they are able to keep their business floating even today, despite it being restricted for a reduced audience.

I wish you all the best for your Kannada collection. Hopefully you will find a good soul who can share his stuff with you. It's true that Chandmama chennai office doesn't have any backissue collection, as they have mostly pushed them out on a regular basis, and at present are converting them to digital archives, which are distributed in CDs now and then along with their monthly editions.

If not the original issues, you can try subscribing for their monthly editions to own them at least on soft copies.

Happy reading dude, and welcome to Comicology.

Dear Chandamama Fans, It is indeed a joy to talk ...

2009-08-26T14:29:31.424+05:30

Dear Chandamama Fans,

It is indeed a joy to talk with Chandamama Fans, I used to read Kannada CHANDAMAMA from 1970 to 1985 and enjoyed every bit of it! During those days, CHANDAMAMA competed with Balamitra (in Kannada and Telugu)and Bombemane(kannada)-Bommarillu(Telugu)-Bommai(Tamil). Of course CHANDAMAMA was way ahead in the race!

I wanted to buy the back issues of CHANDAMAMA from the very first issue. but when I contacted the publishers in Chennai, They said they didn't have the back issues in Kannada - which I found strange!
I request if any of you fans have back issues of Kannada CHANDAMAMA in any state or shape and willing to sell them, please contact me on my mail. I would be grateful to you if I can get them!

Keshav

Expecting the review of Ramayan.... THe Aug Chanda...

2009-08-03T14:21:05.738+05:30

Expecting the review of Ramayan.... THe Aug Chandamama had a CD with Jan - Jun 2007 archives of Chandamama

@ ERB: Yes I still remember the day. At fir...

2009-06-18T19:59:54.001+05:30

@ ERB: Yes I still remember the day. At first, I wasn't pretty impressed, but talking to you, you made me not only buy the Cofee Book edition, but also to subscribe for Chandamama.... hmm... I should start avoiding calls from you hereon.... :)

I will soon collect my long pending Ramayan copy from you. I am hopeful to follow that, with a review post on that will follow once I read through it.

Rafiq, I remember I was the one who gave you the n...

2009-06-16T08:40:47.026+05:30

Rafiq, I remember I was the one who gave you the news that the Collector Edition was available for Chandamama. I should say that I did not like the book too.

Heah, you are yet to review the Ramayan published by Chandamama. Your copy is with me for a long time.

Ram: Thanks for your visit and comment. I h...

2009-03-28T02:53:00.000+05:30

Ram: Thanks for your visit and comment. I hope yo do scrouge for the comics/children magazines listed here. in the old book shops... as all the ones listed over here are still in publication, and no one would be willing to get into any legal tangle with the publishers :)

hello Mr.Rafiq this was relly good i used read com...

2009-03-24T23:36:00.000+05:30

hello Mr.Rafiq this was relly good i used read comic book in my grandpa's home and those were very precious days if anybody can send soft copies of those old great books plz do send to pgramss@gmail.com

Ramana: Thanks for your comment. Why not leave you...

2009-02-15T11:31:00.000+05:30

Ramana: Thanks for your comment. Why not leave your comment about the edition too, if you had bought or seen that so far.

Krishna: I too agree with your view point. The collector editions did miss out on mentioning the talented writers and artists who made it's golden genre all the more famous. Obviously, this is the reason why this edtion is not cherished among comic fans and collectors. A lesson to be learnt by other publishers, if they ever decide to release a collectors item. Hope someone is taking it into account.

Very disappointing for me. I wish it had more cont...

2009-02-15T04:02:00.000+05:30

Very disappointing for me. I wish it had more content on biographies of great talent which made chandamama possible. Great artists like Chitra, Shankar, MTV Acharya, Vapa and writers such as Dasari really made what Chandamama was at his golden age.

Simply Superb

2009-02-11T14:40:00.000+05:30

Simply Superb