Aditya Bidikar is a comic-book letterer and occasional writer based in India.
It’s been a nice week at Casa Bidikar.
I’ve finally started working out regularly again. I’d been waiting for my various chronic pains to recede enough, and I’d got myself a gym membership at the beginning of the month, but it took a while to find the bandwidth and motivation to start going regularly. My aim is to hit two functional training days and two cardio days per week minimum, and anything above that is gravy.
(more…)STATUS / A late start to the day – I overslept, partly because I’d been running on less-than-normal sleep for a few days. I also started working out properly again yesterday, since my back is doing well.
ON THE DESK / Yesterday was scattered – all revisions and deliveries. Today I’m working on The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos #12 and the back half of Robin #4.
(more…)After a very hot first half of the month, May has settled into surprisingly pleasant weather here in Pune – I don’t know if I can fully trust this weather, since our “summer” has had two weeks of daily rain. We might be about to have a strange mixed monsoon/late summer that we’ll encounter in a few weeks. Climate change!
(more…)The other day, I read Annie Mueller’s notes on the book Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse, and a couple of things stood out to me.
(more…)STATUS / Had a busy but nice weekend (no work – I’ve been very strict about not working weekends ever since I started freelancing eight years ago). Had a slow, lazy start today.
ON THE DESK / Not much lettering work today – making headway on Robin #4, plus I have to wrap up the SFX for w0rldtr33 #11 (we employ an unusual method by which I send Jordie just the SFX and she pastes them into the art and colours them along with everything else). Other than that, a few deliveries and emails.
(more…)STATUS / Had been pretty knocked out by painkillers and antibiotics till yesterday – getting back to normal today, so finishing up a bunch of pending work.
ON THE DESK / Lots of revisions – The One Hand #5, The Department of Truth #23, checking on final proofs for Spectregraph #2. Styles for the new book, and finally making some headway on Robin #4.
(more…)STATUS / Still a bit knocked out by the antibiotics I’m on after my dental surgery. Hoping to be back to fighting strength tomorrow.
ON THE DESK / Style options for a new book, and lettering Robin #4 since I took things easy yesterday. Also finishing up Spectregraph #2.
(more…)STATUS / Slow start to the day, because of the work mentioned below.
I’ve got a dentist’s appointment in the evening which I’m dreading – an extraction. But on the other hand, I had to check my blood sugar levels for the surgery, and they’re within normal range, which is a great win as a diabetic.
(more…)STATUS / Voting day in Pune today. I’ll be picking up my mother in a bit and we’ll go vote together.
ON THE DESK / Last few pages of The One Hand #5. Finishing touches to Dawnrunner #4. Then I believe I’m working on Robin: The Boy Wonder #4.
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