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Editor | P. K. Bajaj |
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Categories | Comic book |
Frequency | Fortnightly |
First issue | 1969 |
Company | Mayapuri Group |
Country | India |
Language | Hindi, English |
Website | lotpot |
Lotpot is an Indian bilingual comic magazine published by Mayapuri Group. Lotpot title was registered by P. K. Bajaj in 1969 and the first issue came out in the same year and has been published without a break since then.
Initially it was a weekly magazine which later on switched to fortnightly magazine after 2011. Later on, the magazine started publishing in English as well as Hindi. [1] [2] [3] The circulation of Hindi versions reached 175,000 and of English version to 225,000. [2]
Lotpot Comics belongs to the Mayapuri Group. [4] It was started by late P. K. Bajaj, who successfully ran a printing press for calendars after he migrated from Pakistan to India in 1947. After the success of Lotpot Comics, he launched Mayapuri Magazine, which is for Bollywood journalism.
Characters of Lotpot Comics got the opportunity to feature on air and became television shows for children such as Motu Patlu and Sheikh Chilli on Nickelodeon and Discovery Kids respectively.
Comic character Chacha Chaudhary was created by Pran Kumar Sharma in 1969 for Lotpot magazine, though it made its first appearance in 1971 in Lotpot. [5]
Lotpot Comics has had popular brand associations and collaborations in the past few years. Below are some of the associations.
The main comic strip characters of the magazine are: