Aditya Bidikar

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

Month: March 2024

  • 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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