Ultra Mega Comics Blowout (Final Part)
February 5, 2010
Ultra Mega Comics Blowout (Part 2)
February 1, 2010
Ultra Mega Comics Blowout (Part 1)
January 31, 2010
I had five minutes with a digital camera in a room illuminated by one 100 watt light bulb. Apologies for the funny but inevitable shadows, and clicky click for larger size versions.

part of an attempt to draw pages instead of individual strips. they're both equally unfocussed and random, though.
More tomorrow.
Weekend Adventures 11
January 29, 2010
This weekend, I went to Jaipur, where I was forced to eat this:
drink this:
and stare hypnotically at things like this:
I also met these guys. Bunch of writers, apparently. Nice people.
Weekend Adventures 10
January 5, 2010
2009
January 2, 2010
So, 2009.
Here’s how it compared to the year before.
Moments of complete and utter clarity
- The ‘Unlimited Momos’ lunch at Yum Yum Tree. Their cappucino ice-cream + mud pie dessert is to die for.
- The four all nighters I remember:
1. Playing Guitar Hero / Rock Band that involved me belting out Radiohead’s Creep at 5 in the morning
2. Reading CHina Mieville’s City & The City
3. Watching Season 5 of The Wire with the room-mate
4. Back to back games of Settlers of Catan with L, KK, RR and N.
- Arriving in Delhi, and being able to send the ‘Hey, I’m back. Let’s meet up?’ message again.
- Watching Avial live in concert. Jumping up and down, screaming in pseudo-Malayalam with atleast a 1000 other people.
- Buying KK’s purple inflatable mace, his subsequent misplacement of purple mace, and the thought of a purple mace blocking traffic on one of Chennai’s arterial roads (though it should be a ‘veinal road’ since it being people to the heart of the city, no?)
- This.
- In Corbett, on a jeep – watching a herd of Elephants lazing about on the grassland.
- making Paneer Jangpuri
- Ponyo on the Cliff By the Sea

- Buying my tiny bookshelf and filling it up!
- finishing the Arrested Development inspired cover to the first book filled with my silly comic scribbles (I’ll upload them all as soon as I have access to a scanner. Promise)
Here’s a closeup of the cast of characters:
Moments of complete and utter despair:
(not going to dwell on this very much)
- Going back home.
- The three months at my second job. Three whole months. I can’t believe I survived.
- In retrospect, this.
- Being evicted suddenly, and standing out A’s house at 10 PM, all my luggage in hand, waiting for her to come back home.
Happy 2010, everyone!
A Year of Sottai
December 25, 2009
It’s been exactly a year since Sottai started.
I know, I can hardly believe it myself.
Thank you, everyone.
(Gifts and stuff will be posted over the next few days.)
Love Is There
December 13, 2009
I fell in love with a band today.
This is Fa’thu. She’s part of a band called Fa’thu and the Early Birds. They’re from the Maldives, and they are awesome.
Why? Because they sound like a bluesier, seaside inspired Norah Jones. Because the guitarist has the Radiohead bear scrawled on his guitar:
Because the harmonica player (yes, they have one) looks like this guy from Veronica Mars:
And they sound absolutely lovely. Here’s a youtube sample:

































