About

Bio

Hello reader! My name is Aditya Bidikar, and you will most likely know me as a letterer for comics from DC Comics, Image, Dark Horse, Boom Studios, Oni Press, and many other comics publishers.

I grew up in Pune, India, and spent some years in Kolkata and Bengaluru before returning to Pune, where I now reside. In previous lives, I have been a content writer, a technical translator, a book reviewer, a comics editor, and occasionally a fiction writer before I backed into my current profession of lettering.

I mainly work in digital comics lettering, and I like to integrate hand-drawn sound effects and text design into my work. I have also hand-lettered two graphic novels so far, and have designed some of my own comics lettering fonts.

After spending years away from writing as a profession, I have recently returned to it, and have been publishing short comics and prose stories in the last year, and I’m currently working on a long-form comic book produced by Tiny Onion, to be published at Image Comics.

I like reading comics, and have written comics-related essays for PanelxPanel and my own newsletter (which you can subscribe to at the top of this page or at the bottom). I have recently been making some headway into learning how to draw, after spending years in quiet shame at not being able to do the primary thing that makes comics comics. I’ll probably post some of the nicer ones on the blog.

I co-hosted a now-dormant podcast with PanelxPanel editor and fellow letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou.

Work

You can look at my lettering credits here. My writing credits are sparse by comparison, but you can have a look anyway.

You can find me on BlueSky and Instagram, and you can get in touch with me through my contact form.