Arun is a practicing pannapictagraphist (comic book archivist), history researcher, artist and freelance writer based in Bangalore. He began his career as a journalist and then decided to dedicate his time exclusively towards nurturing his lifelong passion – collecting and researching comics. Since 1998, he has travelled extensively, gathering, collecting and piecing together old and out of print Indian comic books, comic strips and other comic related materials from different parts of the country to create an extensive repository of Indian sequential art and illustration.