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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 [...]

Jimmy Zhingchak on Wikipedia

Ha! saw this during a wikipedia browsing session. Kinda made my day! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Zhingchak_(comics).
JZ was a real blast to write. I have fond memories of writing it. The character of Bhappi-da, the last of the DISCO gods is hands down my favorite ever, closely followed by Fukku Bhai from Mumbai Macguffin. Last I heard [...]

CNN/IBN on Jimmy Zhingchak – Agent of D.I.S.C.O.

More zhingchak… this time from CNN/IBN.
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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 [...]

D.I.S.C.O. in the D.N.A.

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 ).
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Excerpt from the article :
The comic is replete with other Hindi film references, dialogues and situations: Mithun’s sidekick-turned-girlfriend is Agent [...]

Zhinchak or Zhingchak? :P

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 [...]

Back to the grind and Jimmy Zhingchak FTW

Okay, first of all personal updates:
On Feb 6th my daughter Adya was born and last couple weeks have been spent in adapting to fatherhood and perfecting premeptive diaper change techniques.
On the work front things have been slow. Apart from my regular monthlies DEVI and INDIA AUTHENTIC, there are three one-shots that I’m working [...]