My cartoons at Hyderabad Litfest.

BREAKING NEWS!! I finally made it to a lit fest. CEEW'S "What On Earth!" cartoon series on climate and sustainability made by Shaunak Samvatsar and Anoop Radhakrishnan, will be on across a 3-day exhibition at the #Hyderabad Literary Festival on 24,25 and 26 January 2025 at the Sattva Knowledge City, hitec city, Hyderabad! Do visit and let me know what you think of my cartoons. So all Hyderabad people do visit. The exhibition went live, look at the audience. Thank you CEEW and Alina for making it happen. My loss as I could not attend it.

Ranbhoomi - Kurukshetra wins in Communication Design at DNA Paris

The game was an effort of love, research and design. Built on a shoestring budget with passion it is a bestseller in the Indie games category of India. Congrats to the Sutradhar team that worked on it. Gaurav Tiwari Satish Meena Anupam Tathawadekar Keyur Karvande and myself Shaunak Samvatsar. A good decision was to take on Studio Bandwagon Vivek Vikram Singh and Akash Ranjan to design the game to a finished product. The game launch was an adventure in itself. Most Indie games are launched with explainer videos, we wanted a marketing video which external vendors quoted 8L for. We shut them down and decided to do inhouse. Gaurav and I designed the narrative, I storyboarded the same with limited camera moves, dynamic angles and careful blocking. Anupam did the 2D animation and Keyur used his blender knowledge to animate. We created a blockbuster. https://dna.paris/winner/zoom.php?eid=71-92123-24 https://playranbhoomi.com/

Story Shortlisted for San Diego Comic Con 2024.

A few days ago I came across a call for stories by the legendary Scott Morse, his goal was to turn them into 1 page comics live at San Diego Comic Con. I jumped at the opportunity to showcase my work to an international audience and wrote a few stories outside my comfort zone of comedy as the theme was Space/Crime. An lo I was shortlisted!! So if anyone in my network is going to #SDCC24 please to visit Scott.

EcoGPX residency

Co-facilitated a workshop on sustainable practices with the talented Alice Motta as a part of the #EcoGPX Coventry Residency organised by Intercultural Roots for Public Health .It was a great learning experience interacting with artists and citizens of Coventry to chart a path for the city. Thanks Alex and Wendy for having me.

Then we had a wonderful session on zines workshop facilitated by @franklin.lavender @laurenelizjames & @gnomi_omiart. A manifesto was created with these residents of Coventry for a path towards the future, responsibility and sustainability. With materials and artists zines took on varying forms.

About Carl Barks

I discovered the beauty of Carl Barks in my 30's. What a talent. Great to learn about him.

First book contribution.

Felt really nice contributing Verite'01 to the library of Cartoon Museum Pune. My first graphic essay "Research Ramblings" is a part of this anthology.

Cartoon Museum Pune University, 1st Anniversary

On the occasion of the first Anniversary of the "Cartoon Museum" at Savitribai Phule Pune University, the team has organized an exhibition of the works of certain cartoonists. I am privileged to have a few of my works displayed at the same. Please do attend.

Update: It was a nice small event. Pune University offered the cartoonists the best support for the progress of cartoons as an academic as well as art pursuits. The cartoon museum is hosted in the heritage main building of Pune university. All cartoonists who come to Pune please do visit the museum and meet the team. Help in all possible ways to help this art form flourish.

The chief guest was Dr.Sanjeev A. Sonawane Pro-Vice Chancellor

Inside the museum hall.