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Jul
27
2012
We were really excited when we were asked to create a comic for Mint Lounge's Olympics Special issue. This was our first full colour comic to appear in Mint. It was published on July 21, 2012.Read a high res version here.  
Jul
17
2012
The Year of the Snake First published in Motherland #6 Prisons      
May
03
2012
Read a high res version here.
Aug
21
2011
Let's admit it, we'd fallen behind on our upkeep of this blog and we didn’t like it one bit. So, we decided to shake things up a bit. We decided to start anew… with a new blog at a new address in a new platform. The new blog had to do a lot of things: most importantly, it had to be easily…
Apr
26
2011
Batwoman: Elegy Writer: Greg RuckaArtist: J H Willams III  It’s been ages since I read a superhero comic. So a few weeks ago, I surprised myself by getting a hardbound, deluxe edition of Batwoman: Elegy Let me explain: there are only a few superwomen who have made any kind of impression on me (Catwoman In Long Halloween & Hush, Neil…
Apr
21
2011
Rajiv Eipe is a superstar. If you've seen Hush then you know what we mean. Hush would have been possible ONLY with Rajiv - not everyone can express a young girl's thoughts, choices, anguish and anger the way he did... without resorting to a single word. We'd told Rajiv about TWELVE way back in 2009, when we were creating Hush.…
Apr
20
2011
We're meeting Prabha Mallya after 2 years at the Indian Coffee House (ICH) on Church Street*. We first met her in 2008 when we collaborated on a children's story project called Tell me a Story. We catch up on life, on what we're all doing, what we want do. And then we pop the question, "Would you like to do…
Apr
20
2011
Aindri Chakraborty is mad. There is no other way to describe the way she's illustrated her story in TWELVE. The typical turn-around time for any script at Manta Ray is 60 - 90 days. Max. Aindri came on board the Manta Ray team last August, and over the next 8 months, she went on to create something like we have…
Apr
19
2011
  We first came to know of Pia Alize Hazarika in November last year when a friend saw her illustration blog and forwarded it to us. Soon after, we met her at the Java City on Church Street (Bangalore) - we talked about her work, about Manta Ray's vision for comics, TWELVE and how we'd like to collaborate with her…
Apr
15
2011
During the past few weeks, we gave out the clues to the Answer of the Question… What is the title of Manta Ray's upcoming Limited Series? … the Answer to this Question, as four of you rightly guessed, is:   How?   Clue No. 1 was, as the hint suggested, a lateral one – The boy in the clue is listening to a…

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