Popularity
Collections of Debnath’s comics have been published serially in Shuktara and Kishor Bharati and irregularly in Kishore mon, Chotoder asor, Pokhkhiraj etc.. His comic books featuring Handa Bhonda, Batul the Great and Nonte Phonte have been published since the early 1980s. Since the late 1990s, the Nonte Phonte comics have been anthologized and published in softcover format. From 2003 onwards, the earlier comics have been re-inked and published in full-color, Recently, Debnath gave permission for animation film based on the characters from Batul, Handa Bhonda and Nonte Phonte, and these provide access to the original stories to a whole new generation of children. Narayan Debnath's Handa Bhonda and Nonte Phonte are now also downloadable through an Android app published by Comixphere.com.
Debnath's style incorporating characters speaking in the typical language of Adda (quintessential Bengali gossip lasting hours) and hundreds of nonstandard yet most commonly used in daily life expletives like "Uls" (describing reaction to a delicious food) or Aoofs,Yiofs,arghhh(similar to ouch).
Subtle punning is also aplenty in his comics but the main source of comedy is Slapstick.
Though his comic characters have immense popularity, Narayan Debnath himself has rather lived reclusively, distancing himself from publicity and media.
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