Mad Scientist Quarterly

If the Times group ever brought out a magazine targeted at Dr.Kalam and his weirder science buddies, it would probably look like this. They'd somehow manage to make even a science mag Bollywood-centric!

Click the thumbnail for the full image.

Filmfart - Issue 1

Filmfart is a spoof magazine I created for the now-defunct Gilfosia magazine. Though Sacred Cow is most definitely a comics blog, I thought visual humour along these lines is a good fit, too.

Dillekoo : Harry Potter and the half-wit greedy creator

Sometimes it's amazing how short-sighted and greedy billionaires can get. Check this link for the latest from JK Rowling - showing that she is truly a master of fantasy!

The below strip is a reaction. Click on it to enlarge.

The medium and the message

Scott McCloud continues to pioneer.

For those of you who haven't already suffered my enthusiastic recommendation of his seminal work 'Understanding Comics', here : "You really should read 'Understanding Comics'. It's essential for anyone even slightly interested in comics as a form."

Now, with this promotional/evangelistical comic for Google's Chrome, McCloud is again at the forefront of taking the medium to new places.

I have always believed, and often said aloud, that modern media like games and comics can, and indeed should, be used to deliver content other than pure entertainment. The medium is always separate from the message. Imagine if the visual medium was used purely for feature films (no advertisements, no funny YouTube clips, no fitness videos, no wildlife documentaries), or if the printed word was used only to deliver works of fiction (no Godel Escher Bach, no newspapers, no textbooks, no comics).

So why do we limit our perception of game engines and comics? 

Google's comic isn't the first instance of comics being used to convey instructional information, but it is in my memory one of the highest-profile efforts, and one of the better ones. Hopefully, it will help other people recognize the power of the comics medium to deliver any kind of non-fiction content.

Hey, maybe someone will use the Unreal engine to deliver an interactive product brochure. I don't think it's very far off.

The 12th Man

Most of you have seen this strip before - I wrote and drew it for the Kolkata Knight Riders during the first IPL season. But since this blog is supposed to be a collection of my comics work, and I've been to lazy to draw any new stuff, I'll compile the entire season 1 here. Hope you like em.

[you can click the images for a slightly larger pic, in case you're finding it hard to read the text]















Drawing a regular strip was a great experience for me - you actually get to know your characters better as you go along, It's like hanging out with new friends. Great fun. We hope to revive the strip as we get closer to season 2 of the IPL, so that would be nice.