You’re still reading this blog? Bless you. I will return properly once the book is done. But since you are here, you are clearly both patient and discerning. So. Go to a bookstore.Get this. The Barn Owl’s Wondrous Capers, Sarnath Banerjee (more launches coming up in various cities, so visit Sarnath’s site often. I’ll probably [...]
Virgin November solicits
Posted on August 29, 2006 by Samit Basu
This is why I havent been blogging.Im writing Devi from #3 onwards; Devi 1 comes out September in India, my stuff from November, monthly (July, September onwards respectively abroad) and EoS from November abroad, hopefully from November in India too. Update: Amend that to ‘I really don’t know when anything’s out, I hope it’s all [...]
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The Indian superhero
Posted on July 4, 2006 by Samit Basu
“You must admit that the genesis of the great man depends on the longseries of complex influences which has produced the race in which heappears, and the social state into which that race has slowlygrown….Before he can remake his society, his society must make him.”– Herbert Spencer Superhumans – Nietzschean uberbeings who bend circumstances, storiesand [...]
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Comics, graphic novels and Indian speculative fiction
Posted on July 4, 2006 by Samit Basu
Speculative fiction and comics have gone hand in hand from the verybeginning; even today, apart from the mainstream superhero comicbooks,which are essentially spec-fic, the greatest and best-known comicwriters in the world, like Alan Moore or Neil Gaiman, are wildlypopular for SF and fantasy creations which use the comic-book medium’sability to tell compelling stories and create [...]
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Gotham Chopra interview
Posted on July 3, 2006 by Samit Basu
Gotham Chopra has played many roles in huge projects across media, from writing books to producing Hollywood movies. He is currently Chief Creative Officer at Virgin Comics and Animation Q: Graphic novels and comics are the fastest growing market in fiction today, and Virgin Comics and Animation seems like a fascinating project. You’re not only [...]
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from the EVIL FORCES of…
Posted on May 10, 2006 by Samit Basu
If there was ever a point of time in your life when Sunday mornings meant waiting through endless Rasna ads for He-Man to show up on DD, if you still remember all the words of the intro (I’m Adam, Prince of Eternia, defender of the secrets of Castle Greyskull..etc, etc) and if you made early [...]
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Thought bubble
Posted on May 6, 2006 by Samit Basu
It’s Free Comic Book Day. Which is lovely, except that there arent’t any comic book stores here. Grah.
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Bufo Biffers
Posted on February 10, 2006 by Samit Basu
If youve got nothing better to do, and chances are you havent, go and read about Raj Comics’ Fighter Toads (Foursome Mutant Mob)
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Didn’t know this
Posted on November 15, 2005 by Samit Basu
Come 2008, Sandman will be back, Gaiman promises, hand on heart
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Three (million) reasons to smile
Posted on November 15, 2005 by Samit Basu
Preacher. Black Orchid. And the complete Asterix. Joy, joy. Am also collaborating with Sarnath on a non-book project, which has been hilarious fun so far. Desperately wish I could draw. Here’s one of the drawings in the pencil stage:
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