Aditya Bidikar

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

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February 1, 2025

Comics, Opinion, Updates, Writing

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2025 / #04: You Just Like Good Movies

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A Brief Note on Fandom
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January 6, 2025

Comics, Opinion, Writing

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How Lucky, to Have Been (A Personal Reflection on Ice Cream Man #18)

Note: This essay was originally published in August 2020, in PanelxPanel #37, which was the Ice Cream Man special issue. I contributed a lot of articles to the early issues of PxP, partly because Hass is a friend, and partly because he would let me write whatever I wanted to.

This one came about because of another friend, Deniz Camp, who told me that I should read Ice Cream Man #18 because he thought I’d like it. So I read it, and it broke me. To say I “liked” it would be an understatement, because it was and remains the only comic that inspired me to write a fan letter to its creator to let them know how I felt about it.

I had meant to republish this one to my blog for a while, but my dad passed some months ago, in August 2024, so it feels like this is the time to place it in front of the public, in his memory. It remains the most personal non-fiction thing I’ve written.
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October 11, 2024

Comics, Updates, Writing

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The Tiny Onion Artists in Residence Program

I’d hoped to be back to blogging for a bit before this post happened, so it’d feel less like it came out of nowhere, but … for the last few months I’ve been teasing something big happening with work, and this Wednesday, it was announced –

Along with colourist/writer Jordie Bellaire, I will be part of the inaugural class of Tiny Onion’s brand new Artists in Residence program.
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February 5, 2024

Film, Weeknotes, Writing

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Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 05: Past Lives

Butter Docs (or, New writing apps don’t work so great)
E-book reissue of Forgotten Lives
Film: Past Lives
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July 11, 2023

Opinion, Updates, Writing

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Is Writing Optional?

Due to many factors, including some physical ones, I’ve had to step away from doing much work in June – particularly in the back half.

In that time, I’ve been working on this outline for a comics mini-series (a four-issue horror story that I’ve codenamed SEASIDE). As I’ve written before, I finished around 80% of this before I stopped working on it, and only started back up in the last week of June.

In the meantime, I wrote two comics scripts and several blog posts and essays, so it’s not like I haven’t been writing. It’s more that I haven’t wanted to … take up space.
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July 10, 2023

Books, Film, Updates, Writing

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Status Update / 2023 / Week 27

First week of July.

I have a habit of thinking back on my life twice a year – towards the end of the year, and in July, around my birthday. These are both arbitrary times to do this – I suppose ideally one should be thinking deeply about one’s life all the time – but it’s good to have mile markers where you can check if you’re headed in the right direction and if you need to make any adjustments.
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June 23, 2023

Books, Comics, Updates, Writing

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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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June 14, 2023

Opinion, Updates, Writing

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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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January 6, 2023

Comics, Updates, Writing

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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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January 3, 2023

Art, Comics, Writing

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Diary Comics: December 2022

Late December, I’m not quite sure why, I felt moved to make some diary comics. I’d had a few conversations with artist friends, one of whom recommended that a good way to improve my drawing fast would be to make comics (these are not those, though). But mainly, I’d just finished making our “Monkey Man” comic, and wanted to continue marinating in comics thinking.

Anyway, I made four. I’m not sure I’ll be making more, but they were rather fun to make. Each took 20-30 minutes, and I got to improvise making comics – that subtle chemistry of text and image. Here you go:

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