Aditya Bidikar

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

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    Status Update / 2023 / Week 25

    So.

    Here’s what I’m trying to do.

    I’ve said many times over that I want to use my blog more, so I want to start doing that. All the stuff that I naturally post on Twitter? Let’s see if it can go here. I want to live here again, if I can.

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    More Thoughts on Failure

    Last week, I wrote a fairly detailed newsletter on how intentional failure is a big part of learning how to do something. Trying, failing and integrating the failure into your process is how one learns to do anything as an adult.

    Writing that essay got me thinking about things other than drawing, and I realised that while I’ve been able to fail purposefully in drawing, there was another creative venture that had stalled out because I was – it was becoming obvious as I thought about this – afraid to fail.

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    The Monkey Man of Delhi

    If you’ve been following me on Twitter or through my newsletter, you might know that I’ve been writing a lot more these days, and particularly trying my hand at writing my own comics.

    In that vein, I am extremely proud to present to you, a short comic written and lettered by me, with art by my friend and constant colleague Anand RK:

    “The Monkey Man of Delhi” – a True Weird tale, presented to you by James Tynion IV and edited by Greg Lockard. (You need a paid subscription to read this.)

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    Introduction

    An introduction to the blog, that is. If you need an introduction to me, this is the place to go.

    The Short Version

    Here’s the TL:DR on this: Social media is exhausting, newsletters feel intrusive outside of very specific stuff, and I missed having my own space. So … this is going to my primary online residence for the next little duration. A good old-fashioned blog. I’ll still be on Twitter a bunch, but more of it will redirect here than before.

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