ACK scripts comeback with Mother Teresa

ACK Media, the publisher of the country’s largest selling comic book series, Amar Chitra Katha, is launching a new title on Mother Teresa after a hiatus of four years.

Savita Pai, vice-president, product management, ACK Media, said: “Mother Teresa is a figure of international acclaim. Despite being an Albanian by birth, she devoted her life to this country. Our new title will celebrate her 100th birth anniversary.”

“Our last title was launched in 2006. With the title on Mother Teresa, we will initiate the launch of a new line of ACK series, based on characters across the entire gamut of history, mythology, epics, fables and classical literature,” Pai said. The new titles will be launched every two months, starting August 2010. Apart from the title on Mother Teresa, five more titles are in the pipeline. Work is at an advanced stage and the products are expected to be launched over a year.

The titles would adhere to the traditional ACK format of story telling. Modern technology would be used to sharpen graphic representations of characters.

Apart from the print version, the title on Mother Teresa would be available online at the group’s website, indiaplaza, indiatimes, flipkart. It would also be available on Vodafone and iPhone as a mobile comic, and on Amazon and Kindle.

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