Aditya Bidikar is a comic-book letterer and occasional writer based in India.
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STATUS / Relaxed day. The last few days have been a bit cooler for this time in summer.
ON THE DESK / No work on deck today. I think I’ll work on final touches for the website update, which should go up in the next few days, and start kerning and OpenType work on the font.
(more…)STATUS / Family visited yesterday for dad’s birthday. My uncle wrote a heartfelt tribute to him. Today will be more relaxed in comparison. K is visiting in the evening for dinner.
ON THE DESK / Minor edits on the Pride Starman story. Planning to spend the day working on the website update.
OUT TODAY / The Six Fingers #3 with Dan Watters, Sumit Kumar, Lee Loughridge and Tom Muller, Spectregraph #1 with James Tynion IV and Christian Ward, Dawnrunner #2 with Ram V, Evan Cagle and Dave Stewart and w0rldtr33 #9 with James Tynion IV, Fernando Blanco, Jordie Bellaire and Dylan Todd are released today.
(more…)STATUS / I kept being woken up last night by what I thought was my cat Loki’s plaintive whining, but it was someone else’s cat. Loki’s fine, sunning himself in the early morning daylight as I write this in the kitchen. It’s my dad’s birthday, so my sister and family will be visiting in the evening.
(more…)STATUS / Day 1 of staying at the parents’ to caretake for dad. My cat Loki is leaning against the back of the laptop and snoozing as I type this.
(more…)This is something I’m trying to do to blog more and “live” on the blog instead of on social media (which I’m mostly not on anyway). Several of my favourite bloggers have this daily “status update”-type thing. Let’s see if that helps. This obviously won’t be going into the newsletter.
The idea is to take a status call at the beginning of each weekday. If it doesn’t work out over time, I’ll just delete all the entries.
(more…)It’s been a while since I sent one of these. Two months, to be precise, but I needed the break.
(more…)(This continues from Reading the X-Men Krakoa Era: Part 1.)
The first X-Men comic I ever read was Rom: Spaceknight #32.
(more…)After almost two years, I’m now working on enough projects at once that I needed to bring back a degree of organisation into my work life. I’ll be talking more about this in future blogposts, as I think out loud about what works for me.
The first thing I went back to doing, though, is to put tasks on autopilot. This means that at any point of the day, I already know what I’m supposed to be doing, because I’ve decided on it the previous night.
(more…)In 2019, something very exciting happened to Marvel’s X-Men comics, which, by that point, were sustaining themselves mostly with a readership that was already thoroughly invested in them, as is the case with a lot of corporate comics these days. (Also, at the time, Fox wasn’t owned by Disney, so Marvel wasn’t as invested in the X-Men, but they tend not to come out and admit that.)
(more…)K and I watched Dune Part 2 last week, and my thoughts on this one are largely the same as my thoughts on the first one.
It’s beautifully designed and mounted, with great sound design. I’ll definitely be buying the Art of book, as I did with the first one.
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