The website for my new graphic novel project “A Heaven for Trishanku” (drawn by R. Manikandan) is live at AHeavenForTrishanku.com. Mani and I did Sadhu volume 2 : The Silent Ones together and it is a real kicker to be working with him again.
As a story AHFT is very different from anything I’ve done so [...]
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A Heaven for Trishanku
Mumbai Confidential Chapter 1 Preview posted online
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 [...]
Mumbai Confidential site now has a new look
I decided to unleash my nerd-ery to try and code a new wordpress template for Mumbai Confidential website. So read up a few resources on the web and one night’s coding binge got the new theme (aptly called “Mumbai Confidential Custom 1“) up and running.
Details are here.
About Mumbai Confidential
Mumbai Confidential is a crime noir comic [...]
More Toughguys with guns
I just can’t stop drawing these
Artdump
Lately I have been experimenting with a minimal black and white style for hardboiled crime novels. As befits my limited artistic talent, I have been working off of photo references. Here are some of the pieces I have done in recent times.
Here’s lookin’ at ya, kid!
So last night while waiting for someone I had a meeting with to show up, I decided to doodle and chose to try my hand at drawing a very hard boiled Humphrey Bogart Here’s the piece with one of my favorite bogie lines from Cassablance. Done with the mouse and GIMP
By the time [...]
Mumbai Confidential cover
Cross-posting from Mumbai Confidential
About Mumbai Confidential
Mumbai Confidential is a crime noir comic book series created by writer Saurav Mohapatra (DEVI, SADHU, MUMBAI MACGUFFIN, INDIA AUTHENTIC, JIMMY ZHINGCHAK) and artist Vivek Shinde (PROJECT: KALKI, SNAKEWOMAN) set in (of course!) the Indian city of Mumbai.
Worklog update
Well, it’s been a long time since my last post. Just been busy. Not too many gigs to speak of. Most in progress are stuck with artists. One interesting bit though, just now putting finishing touches on a short story commisioned for an anthology based ona favorite character of mine. Will post more details as [...]
Worklog Update (V-Day+1 '09)
NYCC 09 was … ummm… fruitful.
Things got moving. Am currently discussing two OGN’s with a reputed publisher. One of them of course is Mumbai Confidential and the other is tentatively called “A Heaven For Trishanku” about a man released from jail after 40 years and finding that the world outside has moved on.
Greatbong pointed out [...]
The once and future worklog
Ever since the “Liquification” of Virgin Comics things have been a bit light on the writing front. So I decided to take some time off to focus more on life especially my daughter, Adya.
I just sent in a script for a graphic novel commisioned by an indian publisher about the legend of Abhimanyu from the [...]
