Podi

We’re over at https://www.instagram.com/podicomic/ now. There’s lots of stuff to see - pop by when you have a moment : )

An incomplete panel from our comic book, Podi. @artofsuri wants you to know I have taken a terrible photograph of her work and the colour will be better in the printed book and that I'm a bad person for posting this. 

We may have to shift publication date, but we’re hoping it’ll be worth the wait. The pages are coming along nicely. More updates, soon : )  

Nickelodeon editor, Joan Hilty said nice things about Podi, today @lankacomiccon

The cover of a book is always a strange beast. It must play nicely with the story in the book and it must also play nicely with the marketing department's wants. The three of us have been chatting, on and off, about the cover for Podi for about five years. Above is a small selection from this year by @artofsuri

Fingers crossed, Podi will be in shops and on Amazon in early 2019. The frequency of posts on this blog would have you believe otherwise but we’re working hard - promise.

@artofsuri thinking about final colours for Podi. I think I stared at this thing last night during our entire weekly chat and didn’t hear a single damn thing that was said. Filthy co-writer and I are so lucky to be working with her.

Famous in India! Thanks, @HomegrownIn

@artofsuri killing it on the thumbnails. We're nearly halfway through thumbnailing and if things go well, we can move to pencilling in late March.

More info here: http://www.lankacomiccon.lk/

@artofsuri is thumbnailing all 120-pages of Podi again since it works better as a 9-panel grid and she enjoys nurturing her carpal tunnel syndrome. This week we're working on some bouncy, jumpy, shouty bits.

This is how you make an artist cry; malicious annotating of their carefully considered thumbnails. Working on Podi last night with @artofsuri and Navin, we found a fun way to make a whole species of verbal gags work visually. It added an unexpected layer of comedy to the book. Feels good to have a night like that - inspiring each other, brains fizzing, making stuff.