An Appeal For Cartoonists

I speak very truly (rare, is it not, for an Ironist to do so?) when I say that I have learnt everything that I love about the English language from two series of comics, Tintin and Asterix and Obelix. (Indeed, my spirits are always dampened when I receive the reply 'No' from a person whom I have asked, 'Have you read any Tintin or Asterix?') And now I want to start a series which I shall (perhaps) call The Tribal Ironix, for which I need a cartoonist who would ideally have some acquaintance with the history of British India.

This is the 'template' for the series :

The year is 1905. The whole of India is under the British Raj. The whole? No, not quite. For there still holds out in the Central Provinces a group of tribals who are resisting the inroads being made by the firangs into their territory. The British have placed a Cambridge-educated Resident, Lord Stifflippix, in Indore, the nearest city, and the Resident has been trying to get the tribals to sign an Accord with Her Majesty's Government for the last five years. The trouble is that the tribals are represented by The Tribal Ironix who picks holes in every Accord that the Resident draws up. As a young boy, he studied at a Jesuit school in Bihar where he diligently and patiently ploughed his way through volume after volume of British history, law, politics, philosophy, literature, and poetry; consequently, no sooner has he glanced at the Resident's Accord does he see through the contradictions, latent and manifest, that it is riddled with. In the meantime, while he and the Resident hold heated discussions at the Lodge in Indore, the other tribals, in true subaltern fashion, carry out nocturnal raids on British property in Bhopal.

So, then, the 'basic idea' is that I shall do the writing (yes, leave the irony to me!), but I need a skilful cartoonist who can invent some colourful ('indigenized') characters for me. I think I shall need a few 'uneducated' tribals who are militia-guerillas; a few who know English and can mingle with the 'educated Nehru-types' in Bhopal; a few 'reformists' who get in touch with the Mira Ben sort of nativised Englishwomen; a few 'moderates' who urge their fellow tribals to embrace English-ness; a few 'radicals' who have as their motto, 'Proud To Be Tribal'; and so on and on.

The first title in the series will (perhaps) be called The Ironix And The Resident; we can then work on subsequent titles.