Aditya Bidikar

Aditya Bidikar is a comic-book letterer and occasional writer based in India.

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  • 2024-04-25

    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 / No work on deck today. Might do some writing if I can carve out the time.

    OUT TODAY / The Six Fingers #3 with Dan Watters, Sumit Kumar, Lee Loughridge and Tom Muller, and Spectregraph #1 with James Tynion IV and Christian Ward are released today.

    READING / I decided to start reading Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen. Planning to cycle this with The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science by Will Storr, which should be a lighter read.

    WATCHING / Still on episode 3 of both Supersex and Ripley.

    LINKS / Looking for AI use cases / The life and death of Hollywood / John August talks about what it’s like to nominate movies / The Polycrisis: Why can’t we stop talking about nonmonogamy?

  • 2024-04-24

    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.

    ON THE DESK / Nothing incoming today, and outgoing is just revisions on w0rldtr33 #10, so I’m spending some time working on the next font. Time to dust off CODENAME SEASIDE and start landing that outline as well.

    READING / Wrapped up John McPhee’s Draft No. 4 last night. Now wavering between Entangled Life, a book by Merlin Sheldrake about mushrooms, and Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario, which everyone’s been talking about since Denis Villeneuve said he wants to direct it. Continuing my big Krakoa X-Men read after a short break.

    WATCHING / Watched the second episode of Ripley last night, so we’re on episode 3 of both that and Supersex. I had no idea what to expect from Andrew Scott in this because I thought he was terrible as Moriarty in Sherlock, and Hot Priest from Fleabag, while a great character, didn’t lean on his performance much. But I’m astonished here by how subtle and deep his rendition of Tom Ripley is. Loving it.

    LINKS / Tegan O’Neil – How we will read Cerebus Part 1 & Part 2 / No one buys books / Salman Rushdie on Jon Stewart / The man who killed Google search

  • 2024-04-23

    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.

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  • 2024-04-22

    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.

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  • Status / 2024 / Week 16: Live and Learn

    It’s been a while since I sent one of these. Two months, to be precise, but I needed the break.

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  • Reading the X-Men Krakoa Era: Part 2

    (This continues from Reading the X-Men Krakoa Era: Part 1.)

    The first X-Men comic I ever read was Rom: Spaceknight #32.

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  • Autopilot Scheduling

    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.

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  • Reading the X-Men Krakoa Era: Part 1

    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.)

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  • Dune Part 2

    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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  • Status / 2024 / Week 07: Minor Breakages

    I haven’t sent out a status update for the last couple of weeks, and I haven’t posted on my blog in that time either (as I had intended).

    There’s a simple reason for that – I’ve been going through stuff. For three weeks, I was busier than I’ve been in a good while, partly because work just lined up that way, partly because back pain slowed me down, and because sometimes you just have more work to do.

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