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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 [...]

Mumbai Macguffin behind the scenes :)

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 [...]

DEVI vol 4 (#16-20) TPB out

[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. [...]

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 [...]

WORKLOG for MAR 2008

Worklog for the month of march

DEVI #20
INDIA AUTHENTIC #13 – LAKSHMI
West Coast Customs Presents RYDERS (One-shot)
The Mumbai Macguffin (One-shot)

DEVI 17 Review at ComicsBulletin.com

DEVI 17 Review has been posted at comicsbulletin.com (Formerly Silver Bullet Comic Books).
The reviewer gives it 4 out of 5 stars.

WORKLOG

[digg-reddit-me]Okay hard at work on my three series plus some more goodies to come/be revealed later
DEVI #17
SADHU SILENT ONES #4 and #5
INDIA AUTHENTIC #9
Plus have started work on two hush hush projects will update more about those soon-ish.
cheers
mohaps

DEVI next arc covers sneak peek

whew! The DEVI arc Karmageddon (#11-#15) is done. Saumin is hard at work on DEVI #15 as i posted earlier and that looks awesome.
We got some of the hottest artists on the block today to do some covers for DEVI next arc (#16-#20). (Yeah! I’m doing that one too ).
First up is [...]