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, Vault, Oni, and 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 occasional 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 am currently working on a third. I have also designed some of my own comics lettering fonts, and I’m currently working on a way to make those and others available for purchase. But this is some way into the future, so let’s not hold our breath.

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 scripting a long-form comic book that I hope to publish in the near future.

I like reading comics, and I occasionally write comics-related essays for PanelxPanel and my own newsletter (which you can sign up for here or at the bottom of the page). 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-host a sometimes-dormant (it’s not dead, I swear!) podcast with PanelxPanel editor and fellow letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou.

Work

You can look at my lettering credits here, and take a look at my portfolio here (coming … er … soonish).

My writing credits are sparse by comparison, but you can have a look anyway.

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