What I’ve Been Up To

December 7, 2024

Read this on my blog. What I’ve Been Up To I’ve been struggling with writing this blogpost for the last few weeks. I want to start properly posting on the...

The Fables of Erlking Wood

November 25, 2024

Read this on my blog. The Fables of Erlking Wood This one’s coming to you folks much later than I’d intended, but it’s been a busy month. Nearly a month ago,...

Daredevil: Born Again

October 24, 2024

Read this on my blog. Daredevil: Born Again Just got to reading this for the second time ever – which is an odd thing to say about a comic I own two...

The Tiny Onion Artists in Residence Program

October 15, 2024

Read this on my blog. (This post went to my blog subscribers four days ago, but because it’s been so long since I posted anything, I … er … forgot that I...

Fiction and Non-Fiction in Film

August 23, 2024

Read this on my blog. Fiction and Non-Fiction in Film In an interview with Anurag Minus Verma (whose podcast is easily the best Indian podcast around, though...

Life/Death Update

August 13, 2024

Read this on my blog. Life/Death Update I haven’t written here in a few weeks – I was working on the next Weeknotes (Weeknotes 29 – for reference, we’re now...

Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 28: Woo-Woo

July 15, 2024

Read this on my blog. Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 28: Woo-Woo This one’s coming to you closer to the weekend, if not quite within it. I count that a victory. I...

Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 27: Second Half of the Year

July 11, 2024

Read this on my blog. Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 27: Second Half of the Year This is coming later than I’d like, but I was pretty slammed with work Monday and...

Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 26 Part 2: Watching and Reading

July 4, 2024

Read this on my blog. Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 26 Part 2: Watching and Reading This is a couple of days later than I’d like, but I was under the weather again...

Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 26 Part 1: Updates

July 1, 2024

Read this on my blog. Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 26 Part 1: Updates As mentioned, there was no newsletter last week, since I was in Goa with some friends, and...

Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 24: The Mystery Gods

June 16, 2024

Read this on my blog. Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 24: The Mystery Gods After the eventful weather of last week, it’s been pleasant to have a week with not much...

Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 23: Strive to Fail

June 11, 2024

Read this on my blog. Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 23: Strive to Fail It’s been an interesting week here in India. For one, Pune has been bombarded by torrential...

Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 22: Things and Places

June 4, 2024

Read this on my blog. Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 22: Things and Places It’s been a nice week at Casa Bidikar. I’ve finally started working out regularly again....

Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 21: Good Weather

May 27, 2024

Read this on my blog. Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 21: Good Weather After a very hot first half of the month, May has settled into surprisingly pleasant weather...

Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 20: Playfulness

May 21, 2024

Read this on my blog. Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 20: Playfulness The other day, I read Annie Mueller’s notes on the book Finite and Infinite Games by James P....

Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 19: Rest & Relaxation

May 12, 2024

Read this on my blog. Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 19: Rest & Relaxation It’s been a good week – light on work. I’ve been trying to cook at home more (the...

Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 18: It’s Already May

May 7, 2024

Read this on my blog. Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 18: It’s Already May I’ve decided to start calling these “weeknotes”, since the term makes a lot more sense,...

Status / 2024 / Week 16: Live and Learn

April 22, 2024

Read this on my blog. It’s been a while since I sent one of these. Two months, to be precise, but I needed the break. Nothing spectacularly off about these...

Reading the X-Men Krakoa Era

April 19, 2024

This is a special notification for my newsletter readers about a series of blogposts I’ve been doing. I’ve been reading the Krakoa era of the Marvel’s X-Men...

Autopilot Scheduling

March 28, 2024

Read this on my blog. Autopilot Scheduling After almost two years, I’m now working on enough projects at once that I needed to bring back a degree of...

Status / 2024 / Week 07: Minor Breakages

February 21, 2024

Read this on my blog. Status / 2024 / Week 07: Minor Breakages I haven’t sent out a status update for the last couple of weeks, and I haven’t posted on my...

Status / 2024 / Week 05: Past Lives

February 5, 2024

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Status / 2024 / Week 04: (Re)Organisation

January 30, 2024

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Status / 2024 / Week 03: Chronic

January 23, 2024

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Status / 2023 / Week 02: Along We Rumble

January 16, 2024

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Status / 2024 / Week 01: Part 2 – Reviews for the Week

January 10, 2024

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Status / 2024 / Week 01: Part 1 - Best of 2023

January 8, 2024

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Status Update / 2023 / Week 52

December 31, 2023

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Thoughts on Seven Years of No Smoking

December 7, 2023

Read this on my blog. Thoughts on Seven Years of No Smoking (Content warning: This post describes the act of smoking several times, sometimes positively. If...

Status Update / 2023 / Week 48

December 5, 2023

Read this on my blog. Status Update / 2023 / Week 48 Writing this one from K’s house. It’s a lazy Sunday afternoon, and we just finished rewatching Scott...

Status Update / 2023 / Week 47

November 27, 2023

Read this on my blog. (Note: In case your mail client truncates this email, you can click on “Read this on my blog” to get the full post.) Status Update /...

Status Update / 2023 / Week 46

November 21, 2023

Read this on my blog. Status Update / 2023 / Week 46 (Note: This one’s longer than usual. If you’re reading this on email – which you are if you’re seeing...

Status Update / 2023 / Week 43

October 30, 2023

Read this on my blog. Status Update / 2023 / Week 43 A quiet Saturday at my end. I’m writing this from my parents’ home, where I’m tending to dad while my...

Status Update / 2023 / Week 42

October 22, 2023

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Strange Animals: Finalé? Reboot?

October 17, 2023

Hey, folks! It’s been a while since I’ve written you here in newsletter-land. And it’s my fault, of course. But I come to you with joyous news, or a good...

Strange Animals / 2023 / #5: Why You and Nobody Else?

September 3, 2023

I got a couple of messages recently enquiring if I’m alright, so it seemed like a good time to send out one more of these. Turns out that people who know me...

Strange Animals / 2023 / #4: Learning Is Juggling

June 6, 2023

Here we are again, one month from the middle of the year. Time. What a twat. /// May was the busiest month of this year for me. It usually is. A couple of...

Strange Animals / 2023 / #3: Down the Layers

April 3, 2023

Hey folks! Hope you’ve been well here in newsletter-land. Sometime last week marked three years since the first Covid lockdowns in India. Three bloody years,...

Strange Animals / 2023 / #2: A Cover and an Explanation

January 27, 2023

Let’s get right to this one, shall we? Unlike most instalments of this newsletter, I’ve got something to sell you. (Not something I avoid on purpose, mind...

Strange Animals / 2023 / #1: Wrap Up and Go Forth

January 5, 2023

Hello, my gentle people. I hope your new year is going well. Mine began on a nice note – surrounded by close friends and good vibes. For one reason or...

Strange Animals / 2022 / #8: We Made a Comic!

December 16, 2022

Most likely the final newsletter of the year. I averaged one per month-and-a-half, which isn’t horrible, given the rollercoaster this year has been for me....

Strange Animals / 2022 / #7: Ten on Twelve

October 11, 2022

I took a fairly long pause from writing this newsletter, as you might have noticed. With the last edition, I told you how I was taking a hiatus from my work....

Strange Animals / 2022 / #6: Halfway There

July 7, 2022

Half the year is done, and I think, like a lot of other people, this one kinda broke me. I know we’ve jokingly been saying “worst year yet” since at least...

Strange Animals / 2022 / #5: Between a Quarter and a Third

April 16, 2022

I’ve got myself into this terrible habit of writing half a newsletter, and then coming back to it much later, and what I was trying to say is either already...

Strange Animals / 2022 / #4: The Comics Creator’s Technical Handbook (Part 2)

March 2, 2022

April last year, I posted the first part of The Comics Creator’s Technical Handbook, as I called it. Crowd goes wild! It was easily the most shared article...

Strange Animals / 2022 / #3: Yeses and Nos

February 12, 2022

One of those lovely Twitter bots tells me that more than 10% of the year is already done. It’s been an interesting couple of months. I’ve actually managed to...

Strange Animals / 2022 / #2: Atomic

January 25, 2022

Funny story. After I got my first newsletter of the year out on the 8th, I – quite optimistically – made a private resolution to send one of these out every...

Strange Animals / 2022 / #1: Ways with Words

January 8, 2022

Hi! I hope your first week or so of 2022 has passed reasonably well. If it makes you feel better, everything happening in the world now has happened before...

Strange Animals / 2021 / #11: You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello

December 20, 2021

Let’s do a final one for the year, shall we? This is the 11th newsletter this year, so I managed almost one every month. I don’t think that’s too bad, though...

Strange Animals / 2021 / #10: Writing Writing

August 24, 2021

This newsletter thing is really blowing up, isn’t it? I don’t mean my specific newsletter – but newsletters in general. As a lot of people have been saying...