Here’s the cover of Niven Govinden’s new book, Black Bread White Beer with HarperCollins, featuring lots of hand-lettering and chessboard endpapers.
March 1, 2012
The Year of the Snake.
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.
November 5, 2011
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 October 28, 2011
The Cat’s Underbelly.
Quit talking, watch Lou lie there smoking,
Singeing a sleeping feline furcoat. Observe
The whimpering whippet whisper wheezing words
Into the prominent man’s prominent ears.
September 28, 2011
Fish Kitty – III
No fish. No fish. Nope, no fish neither. No fish. No. No. No fish. Has fish – waitaminnit! Mew! Purr! <rubs-around-the-ankles-makes-nice> Now gimme fish.
September 7, 2011
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.
August 9, 2011
Thirteen ways of looking at Blackbirds.
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I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.
- from Thirteen Ways of Looking at Blackbirds, Wallace Stevens.
