Lotpot

*Lotpot*
Categories	Comic book
Frequency	Weekly
First issue	1969
Company	Mayapuri Group
Country	India
Language	Hindi, English
Website	lotpot.com

Lotpot is a Hindi comic magazine published by the Mayapuri. Lotpot title was registered by Mr. A.P. Bajaj in 1969 and the first issue came out in the same year and has been published without a break since then. Initially it was a fortnightly magazine which later on switched to weekly mode.^[1]^[2]^[3] Later on, the magazine also was published in English. The circulation of Hindi versions reached 175,000 and of English version to 225,000.^[2]

The main comic strip characters of the magazine are:

Motu Patlu – Two friends, one fat man (Motu) and another slim man (Patlu) based on Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, who were shown being involved in silly plots and appeared as a fool, but in the new episodes, they were shown as heroes. The supporting characters with them were Dr. Jhatka, Ghasitaram, Chelaram, Dhelaram and Angoothanand. Kripa Shankar Bhardwaj was the original creator of these characters. They also published under the signature of Ajay Bhardwaj.^[3] Most of the post-Bhardwaj features of Motu-Patlu in Lot-Pot were created by Manik and Harvinder Mankkar.
Chacha Chaudhary – the famous and legendary cartoon character of Hindi comic strip, was created by Pran Kumar Sharma in 1969 for Lotpot magazine, though it made its first appearance in 1971 in Lotpot.^[4]
There were other comic strips, in the magazine of characters like Jasoos Chakram & Chirkoot, Deepu, etc.

In December 2010, Lotpot had tied up with Ajay Devgan's animation film for children Toonpoor Ka Superhero and has come out with six special editions of the Lotpot.^[5]

In 2021, Cosmos-Maya acquired all of the Lotpot characters and brands from Mayapuri.^{[citation needed]}