After launching Vimanika in UK, Vimanika Comics, founded and spearheaded by Karan Vir Arora and creators of well received graphic novel titles like Shiva- The Legend of Immortals, Dashavatar, Kalki, Moksha, has launched their very first flagship store in India at Bandra in Mumbai.
This store, offers Vimanika fans exclusive and wide range of Vimanika comics, T-shirts, framed posters, digital paintings on canvas done by the best and some of the most talented comic artists of India.
So what is Karan Vir’s vision with this store? He shares thiswith AnimationXpress.com, “We want to connect well with Vimaniks (our fans) and offer them our products which aren’t available in all the retail stores in the city. With launching a comic book store we’re pushing the envelope and leading our growing Indian Comic industry to the next level.”
With its new flagship store, that has received large footfalls, Vimanika is also focusing to reach their audiences through digital medium and has started this by launching Vimanika Comics app on the android platform and has plans to launch it for the iOS users too.
Karan adds, “Our app has been powered by Cloud 9 Comix and very soon we wish to launch our bestselling title ‘Shiva the legends of the Immortal’.”
In the near future, the studio plans to fill in the store with more designs/Tshirts in apparel line, vast variety in merchandise including mobile skin covers, character mugs, key chains, pens and more of graphic novels.
Karan Vir says that he wishes for the store to be grand success so that he can start giving away their franchising rights to passionate people to build a strong network of Vimanika Stores Pan India and Abroad.
“We wish to sell our franchise rights in the metropolitan cities, but we are always open to any place as long as the partner is passionate about our products, concept and vision” concludes, Karan Vir