Updated On: 06 October, 2023 07:38 AM IST | Mumbai | Devanshi Doshi
An interactive workshop at a Colaba venue borrows from the pre-existent term of comix, and uses a balance of words and images to bring stories of people alive

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Do you read comics?” This is the first question that co-mix artist Chaitanya Modak AKA Won-Tolla asks this writer. Like with any subject expert, he attempts to understand our comprehension of this subject before giving us a deep-dive. Not comics but manga, we reply to his query. “What’s the difference?” He asks, after which we are taken on a 360-degree perspective about the concepts over a phone call. Modak explains what the term co-mix means to him, and how it is different from and yet, somehow similar to comics and any other term in the graphic universe.
Come Sunday, Modak will share these lessons in a class at Colaba’s Apre Art House over a four-hour relaxed but hands-on workshop. “It is called Lie down: tell me your story and make a Co-mix, because, one I want people to lie down with themselves, and take stock of their own story, their daily challenges and what helps them sail through. And two, because not everyone’s version of the story has to be completely true. After all, it is a story. Hence, the wordplay in ‘lie’,” he tells us.