Prabha Mallya

The Year of the Snake.

crabbits — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:22:46 +0000

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.

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Hazy Cosmic Jive.

crabbits — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:07:24 +0000

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The King of Cauliflowers.

crabbits — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:49:59 +0000

Mandelbrot’s wowbagging cauliflower fractals in Brainwave magazine‘s January issue.

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Icecream Headache.

crabbits — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:30:39 +0000

Pratheek Thomas models the Icecream Headache Tee by Manta Ray‘s cool-stuff-making imprint Art You Can Wash.

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Sugarcane Leopards.

crabbits — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:04:56 +0000

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?

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Battered by Breadcrumbs.

crabbits — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 02:19:49 +0000

“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.

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Birds from my Window…

crabbits — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 03:54:18 +0000

…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!

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The Cat’s Underbelly.

crabbits — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:43:48 +0000

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.

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Wild Howlses.

crabbits — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:52:19 +0000

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Fish Kitty – III

crabbits — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:39:59 +0000

No fish. No fish. Nope, no fish neither. No fish. No. No. No fish. Has fish – waitaminnit! Mew! Purr! Now gimme fish.

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