Dec 28th, 2009
by mohaps.
Christmas came early this year. As promised, we are posting a preview of Chapter 1 of Mumbai Confidential Book 1 “Good Cop, Bad Cop“.
NOTE: The preview requires Flash and on low b/w connections might take a bit of time to load
So we’ll be back in Jan with new exploration and never before [...]
Oct 20th, 2009
by mohaps.
Liquid Comics has put their back catalog (most of it) on Issuu.com and you can read Mumbai Macguffin for free.
Mumbai Macguffin is sort of like Three Days of Condor meets Slumdog Millionaire meets Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Enjoy!
MUMBAI MACGUFFIN
Writer: Saurav Mohapatra
Artist: Saumin Patel
Synopsis:
A high-octane adventure through the never-before-seen underbelly of Mumbai, [...]
Aug 13th, 2008
by mohaps.
ComicsBulletin has posted a review of Mumbai Macguffin.
fun, like a summertime action flick.
Jul 30th, 2008
by mohaps.
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 [...]
Jul 10th, 2008
by mohaps.
My first ever published short story was a flash fiction piece for an e-zine called Heavy Glow edited by Stacy Taylor. I really enjoyed writing small less than 750 word pieces for Heavy Glow and also wrote/drew a serial graphic short/web comic strip (gritty b/w crime/noir shorts) for them. In short, I had a whale [...]
Jun 29th, 2008
by mohaps.
[digg-reddit-me]I received my comp copy of DEVI vol 4 TPB collecting issues 16-20 of Virgin Comics’ DEVI (created by Shekhar Kapur and your truly as writer) in the mail yesterday. It feature a cover by Luke Ross (SAMURAI : HEAVEN and EARTH). G. Willow Wilson (CAIRO, AIR) was kind enough to write a warm foreword. [...]
Jun 18th, 2008
by mohaps.
More zhingchak… this time from CNN/IBN.
Full Story
Here is the Video Link on AOL video.
Excerpt from the article
Bring out the bell bottoms, pump up the disco music and prepare for a blast from the past – Jimmy Zhingchak-Agent of Disco is the latest superhero to dance his way into a graphic novel by UTV Spotboy [...]
Jun 15th, 2008
by mohaps.
DNA (Daily News and Analysis) has posted a nice article about Jimmy Zhingchak – Agent of D.I.S.C.O. (thankfully they got the name right and it’s not typo’d as Jimmy Zhinchak ).
Full Article Text
Excerpt from the article :
The comic is replete with other Hindi film references, dialogues and situations: Mithun’s sidekick-turned-girlfriend is Agent [...]
Jun 13th, 2008
by mohaps.
Well looks like lotsa folks are writing about Jimmy Z, but they have typo’d the title as “Jimmy Zhinchak” instead of Jimmy zhingchak. Who cares… a rose by any other name… blah blah…
but wait… google does differentiate… so here goes google foot print of Jimmy Zhingchak/Zhinchak
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=zhinchak+comics&btnG=Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=zhingchak+comics&btnG=Search
For those who googled for zhinchak [...]
Jun 13th, 2008
by mohaps.
No, not the one that wants to phone home, but Economic Times, one of India’s leading business daily’s has been swept up in the Zhingchak fever.
Here is the link