Aditya Bidikar

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

  • Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 19: Rest & Relaxation

    It’s been a good week – light on work. I’ve been trying to cook at home more (the pandemic and intervening years got me far too used to ordering in), and that’s been going well.

    Health-wise, I’m doing much better – no pain these days, though I’m diligent about continuing my physiotherapy-mandated exercises. It took me a few months, but I realised that my pain resurges precisely when I stop doing these, so I can’t be complacent just yet. But I’m back to actually typing these on the computer rather than dictating them or typing them on the phone.

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  • Status 2024-05-09

    STATUS / K and I had breakfast with a friend visiting from out of town, and now I’m back home to work for the day. I’ve got another friend staying over tonight, but she arrives late, so I’ve got the day to myself.

    ON THE DESK / Integrating the coloured pages for Dawnrunner #4 and reviewing it for myself, since I lettered it entirely out of order. I will also begin lettering Robin #4, and letter a few pages for Spectregraph #2.

    OUT TODAY / Robin: The Boy Wonder #1 with Juni Ba and Chris O’Halloran. The One Hand #4 with Ram V, Laurence Campbell, Lee Loughridge and Tom Muller. The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos #9 with Tate Brombal, James Tynion IV, Isaac Goodhart and Miquel Muerto.

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  • Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 18: It’s Already May

    I’ve decided to start calling these “weeknotes”, since the term makes a lot more sense, especially if I want to do shorter daily updates.

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  • Reading & Film Round-Up Feb/March

    I haven’t posted my usual weekly updates for a bit, but I like having a count of books, comics, movies and tv at the end of the year, so I’m going to catch up with some capsule reviews.

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  • Status 2024-04-30

    STATUS / Good day today – it’s K and my one-year anniversary, so date night is planned.

    ON THE DESK / A couple of pages of this, a couple of pages of that, and laying out the script for a couple of books (The Department of Truth #32 and Robin: The Boy Wonder #4) since my assistant, who usually does this part, is on vacation.

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  • Status 2024-04-29

    STATUS / Back at my own home and desk. Back pain nil, which I’d like to figure out how to maintain.

    ON THE DESK / Big picture, sorting out my schedule for May – so lots of emails and staring at the calendar today. Other than that, new pages for Dawnrunner #4, and some writing work.

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  • Status 2024-04-27

    Been doing these for a week now, and I’ve been enjoying them – forces me to be a bit more mindful about what I’m doing with my time, and keeps me focused on the website rather than on social media as the place where I think.

    It might be a good idea to designate these the “Status Updates” and change my weekly “Status”s to “Weeknotes” or something, otherwise it could get confusing. I’ll give it a few more days before that.

    STATUS / Regular day, other than attending a friend’s standup comedy show in the evening. Back pain is nearing zero, which is a very good sign. Hope it lasts when I get back to work next week.

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  • Status 2024-04-26

    STATUS / Relaxed day. The last few days have been a bit cooler for this time in summer.

    ON THE DESK / No work on deck today. I think I’ll work on final touches for the website update, which should go up in the next few days, and start kerning and OpenType work on the font.

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  • Status 2024-04-25

    STATUS / Family visited yesterday for dad’s birthday. My uncle wrote a heartfelt tribute to him. Today will be more relaxed in comparison. K is visiting in the evening for dinner.

    ON THE DESK / Minor edits on the Pride Starman story. Planning to spend the day working on the website update.

    OUT TODAY / The Six Fingers #3 with Dan Watters, Sumit Kumar, Lee Loughridge and Tom Muller, Spectregraph #1 with James Tynion IV and Christian Ward, Dawnrunner #2 with Ram V, Evan Cagle and Dave Stewart and w0rldtr33 #9 with James Tynion IV, Fernando Blanco, Jordie Bellaire and Dylan Todd are released today.

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  • Status 2024-04-24

    STATUS / I kept being woken up last night by what I thought was my cat Loki’s plaintive whining, but it was someone else’s cat. Loki’s fine, sunning himself in the early morning daylight as I write this in the kitchen. It’s my dad’s birthday, so my sister and family will be visiting in the evening.

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