Siapa di sebalik Gotham Comics?

Saya baru sahaja menghabiskan baca dua buah komik terbitan Gotham-Virgin Comics iaitu Devi dan The Sadhu, dua buah karekter komik yang berdasarkan senario dan mitos India. Bagi peminat dan pengumpul komik US, nama Gotham Comics memang tidak asing lagi. Nama kompeni ini sering dikaitkan dengan Marvel Comics yang membawa masuk komik-komik US ke Malaysia khasnya. Sedikit info mengenai Gotham Comics, sebenarnya beroperasi di Lady Curzon Road, Bangalore, India. Siapakah tokoh di sebalik Gotham Comics? Beliau tidak lain dan tidak bukan Gotham Chopra, dan info tentang tokoh ini dipetik dari wikipedia.

Gotham Chopra dengan kerjasama Shekhar Kapur, seorang tokoh perfileman Bollywood (peminat komik) telah berusaha membawa karekter-karekter berdasarkan mitos India dan budaya negara tersebut yang kaya raya dengan kesenian dalam komik.

Gotham Chopra (born Gautama Chopra on February 23, 1975 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an author and entertainment/media entrepreneur. He is the son of bestselling author Deepak Chopra.

He started his career as a correspondent and news anchor for Channel One News, a short television program shown in selected high schools throughout the United States, and went on to host the program 'Current Soul' for Current TV. In 2002, he published an account of his travels and interviews entitled Familiar Strangers: Uncommon Wisdom in Unlikely Places with Doubleday. He was story editor for the comic book Bulletproof Monk and executive producer for the 2003 film adaptation starring Chow Yun Fat. His first book, Child of the Dawn, a parable based on the principles of his father's highly successful book, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, was published in 1996, and written while Chopra was still an undergraduate college student at Columbia University.

Around the time he began his career at Channel One News, Chopra changed the spelling of his first name from the traditional "Gautama," which evokes the ancient spiritual teacher and founder of Buddhism, to "Gotham," a nickname for New York City and later appropriated as the fictional setting of the Batman comic book series. Chopra has said in interviews that he changed his name because "Gotham" sounds more hip and that he was tired of "Gautama" being mispronounced in the United States.[1] The pronunciation of both versions is very close.

Gotham is a partner in Chopra Media, with his sister, Mallika Chopra. Together they have launched www.intentblog.com and Virgin Comics. Gotham now serves as Chief Creative Office for Virgin Comics which is based in Bangalore, India.

In the March 2004 edition of Newsweek Magazine, he was identified as one of the "most powerful and influential" South Asians worth watching.

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