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Read Mumbai Macguffin for Free

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, [...]

Mukesh Singh interview

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 [...]

Interview by Venetia Ansell of "Sanskrit Literature"

I was recently interviewed by Venetia Ansell, who runs the “Sanskrit Literature” blog, about India Authentic and the retelling of ancient Indian myths for a new generation.
Here’s the link to the full interview.

Sequential Tart Interview

I was recently interviewed by Rebecca Buchanan of Sequential Tart. Here is the link to the interview.

NYCC documentary

While attending NYCC ‘08, I was approached by Luis Medina, a filmmaker who was making a documentary about [sic] “People of color in comics”. While I made my views clear on that “classification” (the only part that made it into the final cut is at 02:06 on the video), it was kind of interesting to [...]

Interview with India New England

I was recently interviewed by DAVE MORAN for INDIA-NEW ENGLAND. Here is the link to the published interview.
Here is the short url : http://tinyurl.com/3cbwet
that redirects to the actual article

Comic Book Resources coverage of India Authentic

Comic Book Resources (http://www.comicbookresources.com) covered [digg-reddit-me]“India Authentic” series from Virgin Comics. Even though I might not be the best of objective observers in this case , but I do feel it is a great writeup that touches the core vision of the “India Authentic” project. Read more about it here (http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=12351)

SILVER BULLET COMICS interview

I was recently interviewed by Matthew McLean for Silver Bullet Comic Books. The interview is now posted on the SBC site. This is my first interview as a comic book creator, so savoring the moment
The link to the interview is : http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/f … 406253.htm

Ron Marz Talks Virgin Comics

Ron Marz (WITCHBLADE / TopCow, THE PATH / CrossGen, SOJOURN / CrossGen, SAMURAI : HEAVEN and EARTH / Dark Horse, GREEN LANTERN / DC) speaks about his upcoming stint on Virgin Comics as editor of the SHAKTI line that includes SADHU, DEVI and RAMAYAN 3K.
He is my editor for SADHU and DEVI and so [...]