New Comics for COMIX.INDIA

Hello everyone, it really feels good to return with a good news.

COMIX.INDIA volume 03 (Third World Fantasy) is on sale now on pothi.com. You can buy your copy here. This amazing anthology of 14 black-and–white comics on fantasy and sci-fi is edited by Kailash Iyer and 242pages long. My 20page comics ‘The Last Magic’ is also one of the 14 comics of this volume. Not to mention this is my first work for COMIX.INDIA. 

Well, to encourage you to get a copy of the magazine, here is a teaser poster of my comics. Apart from this, preview of each individual comics is available on the COMIX.INDIA site. COMIX.INDIA is a very good initiative in the field of alternative and experimental comics in India. So, please buy it and read it (and also the back issues; as they are print on demand they never go out of stock ) and if possible help spread the word.

This issue will be officially launched on September 19, 2010, 7:00pm at Yodakin Bookshop, Delhi (2, Hauz Khas Village, New Delhi 11016. 

And a note for the comics artists- submission for COMIX.INDIA vol 04: Real Stuff is open until October 31, 2010.

And as always, constructive feedback is something I always enjoy so don’t hesitate to disturb me. 

Love you all...

Should any free soul come across...

These few pages are the manifestation of my ever-growing passion about anarchism. I created this comics as part of ‘comics without border’ an online comics workshop organized by COMIX.INDIA and Eastside, London during June this year (you can read other participants' works here). Thanks to Bharath Murthy and Ciara Brennan for giving me the opportunity to go for this excellent journey (It’s a pity that the output of the workshop was not great). Otherwise I wouldn’t go for this story right now.

The b-w version of the comics is already published by Kindle magazine, a Kolkata-based art and culture magazine, in their July issue graphic storytelling supplement. (The ten 4-page works published are created by Aditya Bidikar & Nitin Veturkar, Arkadeep Bhattacharya, Bharath Murthy, Gokul Gopalakrishnan, Amrita Sen & Harsho Mohan Chattoraj, Kailash Iyer, Lavanya Karthik, Deepak Sharma, Nandita Basu, Orijit Sen).

I won’t like to say much about this work but all that I can say is – it was fun. ‘Fun’ in a different way than one may assume. While creating the storyline I fell in love with Emma Goldman. I spent a whole week in a trance, hardly spoke to anyone but my brother and then I realized what she meant when she said -“I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy.” This comics is all about that.

I would very much like to make a full size graphic novel (I already have plans) with these characters someday where I can go for a longer journey through anarchism.

The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.

                                                           

                                    
  

     

New Experiment: Visual Poetry

This work is part of my new experiment with Visual form of poetry. This one is originally a poem by Srijato, my favorite contemporary Bengali poet and probably the finest poet of this generation. When I thought of making comics with poetry as text I new that I was going to work on his poems as I spend a considerable amount of time everyday reading his works. His poems keeps me sane and alive. (Funny info about me: I sleep with his Uronto Sob Jokar under my pillow. lol) 

Talking about Visual Poetry, it's still at the basic stage of experimentation therefore I wouldn't like to say much bout it. These days I'm working on one of my own poem written about 6 years ago. So you can hope to see some more in the future. 

And as always I need your feedback, in this case more than ever. 

SandE Page#006

SandE Page#005

SandE Page#004

SandE Page#003

Here the third page. On anti-smoking propaganda. And believe me, it's the beginning.

SandE Page#002

SandE continues. this is the second page.

Enjoy.

Love,

Eddie

SandE Page#001

This is the first page of SandE. Well! actually it is not the first page. There is a page on How SandE started SandE and a Profile page of SandE. I wish to bring them later. You know, to make it look like a publicity stunt.

That makes it the first page of the actual main part of the series.

Hope you enjoy.

Love,

Eddie

SandE Announcement

Finally for the first time we are going to introduce SandE over internet.

SandE are coming out of the closet.

SandE (SMAK and EDDIE) is all about the famous duo, their life, thoughts, imagination and obviously their crisis.

This series is brought to you by-

VisuaL LiteraturE Entertainment

Story: Smak and Eddie

Art: Eddie

I wish to update new pages of SandE in every 2 days, which is , as I know myself, is a tough job to do. Hope, to keep the pages running.

This series started about one and half years ago in the winter (December) of 2007. And since then we shared an entertaining journey together which we are still doing. Now it's time to share that with everyone.

If given a chance, I must dedicate SandE to every true friendship and every single clueless person like us, this is for you pal.

Welcome

Welcome everyone to my blog.

Eddie Speaks

Yeah, Eddie finally speaks............ or rather is busy making COMICS.

I am a person focussed on comics. That is what I do and what I enjoy doing.

In this Blog I wish to post my works. And if you are visiting this blog please leave your comment on my works........... that will make me bring changes in my creation.

And not to mention I wish to discuss on various topics realted to comics which truly matter to me. And surely Superman or JLA or Iron-man does not matter to me but things like Understanding Comics, V for Vendetta and Sabhita Bbabhi do. You get the idea - anything apart from Mainstream works.

Apart form that I am going to discuss on VISUAL LITERATURE and VisuaL LiteraturE Entertainment which is my brainchild and concepts related to it.

Love,

Eddie