Black Bread White Beer

Here’s the cover of Niven Govinden’s new book, Black Bread White Beer with HarperCollins, featuring lots of hand-lettering and chessboard endpapers.

Birds from my Window…

…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 here and more of her work!

Wild Howlses.

The Sound of Mewsic.

This here is the cover for Brainwave magazine, the September issue!

Inside, there’s a highly wacksome illustrated article (linking Pythagoras, pigeon-poo covered telescopes, and atmospheric buzz) called The Music of the Spheres that I wrote and you can read.

The Twistery Chemistry Mystery

Just illustrated a wacky, black-paint-splattered 14-pager comic for Brainwave (the August Issue #9) – featuring the adventures of the cutesy (but dangerous) elemental being Bhoo as a spry little noir-style science sleuth.

The Secret Keeper

Cover design for “The Secret Keeper”, Mitali Perkin’s new book with Harper Collins.

A Momentary Lapse in Conversation.

Madness Mandali’s book is out – the much-awaited Kavikala. This book, this page, this illustration. On a loopy piece on the Awkward Pause, aptly called “____________” by the Scribbler, Amit Charles.

Fish Kitty and Friends.

She nosed through the backyard, walking daintily on the surface – paw following paw without so much as a backward glance. Watching shapes forms thoughts appear and vanish vaguely in the murky depths. To reach out and catch one of them would be too much of a task, especially when it meant cutting through surface tension and wetting one’s limb in dark coffee. Tantalising they were, though – and she stared eagerly into the distance, wondering if the clutch of fresh buildings across the horizon meant more fish for a hungry kitty – or simply more stones and streetcars? I’ll go ask Alice, I think she’ll know.

Prabha Mallya’s posters (on Haruki Murakami, Coffee and Cigarettes, Lost in Translation and Alice in Wonderland) for Counterculture by Pencil Sauce.

 

The Black List.

Hush Puppy.

Pull-out poster you can find inside every copy of Hush by Manta Ray.