Comics Waiting Room (vol. 3 / issue 19)
I recently did an interview with Mukesh Singh (DEVI, Gamekeeper, Shadow Hunter) for Comics Waiting Room.
Mukesh was the artist for issues 1-5 of DEVI for Virgin comics and then moved on to Gamekeeper and Shadow Hunter. He was a Russ Manning award nominee for promising newcomer artist at San Diego Comic-Con 2008.
Currently he is working on the concept art for the MBX webisodes scripted by Grant Morisson.
On a personal note, even though I never directly worked with him, I’m a big fan of his work and believe that the comics world will be hearing more of his name in the near future.
The interview is online now and can be read here.
I write a (very infrequent, but that’s going to change 
) column for Comics Waiting Room called Nine Panel Grid. I just posted the fifth installment of that titled “22 Pages of Doom“. 9PG is an attempt to share whatever I learned from exploring the craft of writing comic books as a writer starting out.
You can read all the posts here.
- KRATHA by Saumin Patel
Saumin Patel, my collaborator on Mumbai Macguffin and Devi has posted a lot of the behind the scenes type artwork showing the evolution of the concept visually. Do check it out at his blog/portfolio site - http://pictorialcinema.blogspot.com/
He also has the art of one of my favorite DEVI stories (the KRATHA short from DEVI #11). Scroll down to see it.
Hi there,
Welcome to the first iteration of “Gruntled and Illusioned” - part webcomic + part anecdotes = full time nerd humor. Today’s story:
A secretary had just completed a memo and was having problems saving it. “Do you have enough space?” asked the local computer expert.
“Oh sure,” she replied. “I’ve got a message that says ‘Disk space OK.’”
The computer expert looked over her shoulder, and sure enough there was the message:
Then he deleted some files and the message read “Disk space: 4K.” After a few more deletions the message read “Disk space: 32K,” and she was able to save her memo.
Lately I have been interested in the nuts and bolts so to say of the comic book publication business. I found a simple but very nice data model for breakeven analysis on digital webbing forums posted by Stephen Smirl.
So in my spare time I decided to create a web based wizard for that model. I hacked up a quick and dirty version using Google Web Toolkit and it can be viewed at http://www.mohaps.com/breakeven/
It’s butt ugly, but functional
Do use it and let me know your comments, crits and feedback.
ComicsBulletin has posted a review of Mumbai Macguffin.
fun, like a summertime action flick.
12 Aug, 2008
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I did a WordPress upgrade today. If you accessed the site between 11:15 AM EST - 11:30 AM EST on 12th Aug 2008 and got some weird stuff in your browser, I apologize for that.
New WordPress version seems to be rocking … so far 
Mumbai Macguffin - a 48 page one shot I wrote is out in stands today. It’s a fun action-comedy title about a CIA spy tracking a downed spy sattelite through the underbelly of Mumbai. It’s my first Mature rated title — so a lot of cussing both in chaste mumbaiya hindi and english 
The story has a crazy mix of russian mobsters, a cult led by a figure called Sky Baba, a gangster named Fukku Bhai…. you get the idea… Shantaram meets Snatch
Anyways here is the comixology snippet on the book.
BTW, if you live near Worcester, MA, you can pick up the copies of the book signed by me from the shelf at That’s Entertainment.
