The Year of the Snake, a 10 page all-colour (who knows when we’ll do that again!) comic by Manta Ray is now out in Motherland magazine’s Prisons issue.
Here’s the story of the story; and a two-page preview, too!
Lots of process pics and promo posters and other workwhile goodies here. And to buy the magazine and find the comic in it, go here.
Here’s the Snake spotted at Comic Con 2012 in New Delhi by Arjun Kolady.
A day in shades of grey.
A cup of tea that cools about as soon as it’s poured.
A walk through the neighbourhood, hands stuffed in unwarm pockets.
Moisture settling in damp waves on nose.
This day, the kittehs stay indoors.
Mandelbrot’s wowbagging cauliflower fractals in Brainwave magazine‘s January issue.
Pratheek Thomas models the Icecream Headache Tee by Manta Ray‘s cool-stuff-making imprint Art You Can Wash.
Editorial illustrations for Current Conservation magazine, with those firecracker folk at Pencil Sauce.
The boundaries between leopard and people habitats blur and intertwine and tangle. Now, the dark adventures of the new urban leopard?
“Toasted“, a new comic for The Small Picture by Manta Ray, published in the Mint newspaper on 9th November, 2011.
Words straight of Arjun Kolady‘s crystal-gazing head. Art by me and edits by Dileep Cherian.
Read a large version of it here.
Meanwhile, I’ll have a butterscotch sundae I guess.
…and the Antics they get up to; the newest book by avid bird-dude Ranjit Lal with Scholastic. I’ve read his writings on birds as a little kid, and it was quite a thrill to work for the cover of this one! It’s a chatty, neighbourly account of the birds Mr Lal literally has a birds’ eye view upon. These beautiful pictures of my book cover and title page are taken by the awesome Archana Srinivas, who’s got an eye for the pretty things lying all around waiting to be noticed!
Read Archana’s post on the book 
