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A Heaven for Trishanku

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 [...]

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 [...]

Trying my hand at drawing :)

Had some free time. Did a doodle of DEVI (Virgin Comics). click for a hires version. The pose is from an Aeon Flux poster (one of my favorites as was pointed out recently by a friend )

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.