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.

Comic for Bakarmax

I had met Sumit at an Indie Comic Fest some 3 years ago, he had asked me to contribute.
Finally it took a pandemic for me to make a comic for Bakarmax.

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IDC Golden Jubilee Celebrations

Today at the IDC IITB Golden Jubilee celebrations. My graphic story "Research Ramblings" was a part of the display and a copy is now available at the IDC library as well. So happy and proud that independent storytelling still counts.

Special thanks to my ex-employee and Verite editor Bharath Murthy whose vision made this anthology possible.

Blue Jackal

A few days back Blue Jackal comics had invited entries for their "Situation Comics", 

The comic was to be based on a a sound piece composed by Sun Ra - 'I Seek a New World’. The lyrics were so strange and made no sense to me.. but reading them in reverse did provide visual stimulus to make the comic.

Here is a note from Blue Jackal regarding the "Situation"

Sun Ra (1) was an Afro-American jazz composer, bandleader, poet and philosopher known for his experimental music and "cosmic" philosophy. Born as Herman Blount, he disowned the "slave name" he had been given at birth, becoming instead Le Sony'r Ra. Defying the Second World War draft, he became one of the first black conscientious objectors and served time in prison. He is considered one of the pioneers of Afrofuturism (2) . Mark A. Rockeymoore writes "Afrofuturism ... is not a mechanical, technology driven vision of the future because an afro ain't never been about anything constricting or orderly, in the hierarchical sense. Rather, an afro is free-flowing, loving the wind. Changing, shifting and drifting on the breeze, bending this way, puffing out or just plain swaying gently from side to side, following the whimsical inclinations of the melanated person upon who's head it is perched."(3)

Each of the entries we received this time, has imagined and invented a different, a new world. This world sometimes manifests as a memory and sometimes looms in a moment yet to come. It sometimes counters existing reality and at others simply takes off beyond its given coordinates. The imaginative remains at the centre of many of these expressions of resistance, widening the scope and understanding of political action itself.

BlueJackal would like to thank all the contributors for their entries to Situation Comics 2. The contributors include Anarya Dodes, Sonam Chaturvedi, Raih, Shaunak Samvatsar, Vasvi Oza, Gagan Singh, Chakupa Banda, Karthik KG, Treibor Mawlong, Vivek Moktan, Pallavi Arora, Lokesh Khodke, Anupam Roy, Blaise Joseph, Jithinlal and Akshay Sethi.

 My work at Blue Jackal

Dial-a-Mechanic

I was commissioned by a certain Mr.X to do infocomics for his soon to be launched service. My job was to make short stories involving the need of such a service, the characters and finally the comics. Here are two of the three stories from this assignment and the chara roughs and vectors as well.