Nepal, April 5 -- If anyone had told Prachin Siddhi Bajracharya, as a child, that his interest in reading comics would lead him to a career in graphic designing and illustration, he would have had a hard time believing it. Now, his life circles around creating art in digital form for events, t-shirts, posters etc. and all this has created a pathway for Bajracharya to channel his inner emotions and ideas.

Along with reading graphic novels, Bajracharya was one of those students whose last pages of copies were filled with doodles and scribbles. "Back then, the internet was not as easily available as it is now, so we had to resort to our own creativity to kill time," he says. It was only in 2005, after completing his Bachelor's degree, that ...