Rajat's Random Rambling 2-In-1 Review : Chairman Meow + Widhwa Ma Andhi Behen

Last year at the first Indian Comic Con India (2011) in New Delhi, for me, the find of the 2-day event was without doubt UBiMa. I have written about it in detail in one of my first few reviews for Comic Addicts.

After a few months, I heard that a sequel was in motion and that excited me to no end, I hounded both Adhiraj Singh and Abhijeet Kini to send me pics, and Abhijeet even promised to send a few sample art pieces but I guess they got busy or something, the sequel hasn’t happened yet. Disappointing, but what the hell. Life goes on, right?

Since there was no UBiMan #2 or for some unexplained reason Retrograde #2 either (fellow addict Akshay can perhaps shed some light on this!), and Sumit Kumar wasn’t launching anything, I had no major expectations from this Comic Con, as far as the artist and writers I knew were concerned.

There were going to be some new launches and Rovolt looked totally kickass, but didn’t expect much from the humor section. Anyway, 3 days went in a breeze. Due to Cosplay, I missed out checking out and buying anything from the stalls this time as well!!! Note to self: Next CC BUY stuff on day 1 and then follow it up with the fooling around in costumes!

Lovely Comic Snacker!

Welcome back all you lovely wayfarers!

After a hectic couple of weeks and the Mumbai Comic Con now over, its great to be back bringing you comics of all shapes and sizes. But the Convention itself gave us so many great new reads and amazing new talent to enjoy that I want to review arguably my favourite of the new contenders from among those launched in Mumbai: Milk & Quickies by writer Anupam Arunachalam and artist Abhijeet Kini, the latter of whom many of you will already know from his work on UBiMa (a.k.a. Ud Bilaw Manus) from Pop Culture Publishing.

This talented duo has done something that is a great concept and personally I feel the Indian comic industry needs more of: bring a variety of styles and stories and really let the reader see what Indian comics are capable of bringing to the table. In this case they have done so with five distinct stories of varying length told over twenty-six highly entertaining pages.

A quick word with Abhijeet Kini, doodler extraordinaire!

Hi Abhijeet. Its great to have to speaking to us today hopefully we'll get lots of info out of you on whats ahead!

So its been almost nine months since the Delhi Comic Con, and we are now edging towards Comic Con Express - Mumbai. Excited?

Totally! Having the comic con come to my city was something I had always been waiting for, and here it is!

The horror... (Click to enlarge)

What made you decide to take a booth this time around at the convention and what can your fans expect to find there?

I had a lot of interactions with people at the Delhi Comic Con, without a stall to start with, and it was nice to see people finally being able to put a face to the names they’ve read in bylines - mine being one of them. So I decided to go for one this time around and have people know where to come and find me. Also, I’m going to be having some limited edition merchandise, featuring my artworks on it. Also on sale is an ambitious project I have been working on along with talented Delhi-based writer Anupam Arunachalam, called “Milk and Quickies”. We are completely looking forward to have people read this one!

Whats next after UBiMa? We have heard rumours of a sequel and there are definitely fans of the character looking to see more Bee-hari action – any light on the horizon?

Haha, I have heard similar rumours about the sequel too. And if they are true, well, the Bee-hari hunk would be back soon…we’ll have to wait and see. Besides this, I have been busy over the last few months with a couple of comics for Tinkle (more on that soon) along with the usual Tinkle stuff I do (Butterfingers, Defective Detectives, Sea Diaries, etc), and also some independent projects, one of them being “Milk and Quickies”.

Nish's Notepad: UBIMA

Hello there! Last week I reviewed Sufi Comics, a religious comic with illustrated teachings from the Holy Qur'an. And as promised, this week, it's completely DESI!
BTW Thank you people for 52 likes on the previous post, and continue the same :P


This week on my Notepad is Uud Bilaw Manus, or UBIMA in short.

Art: Abhijeet Kini
Script: Adhiraj Singh

From the i-don't-know-what-he-ate mind of Adhiraj Singh, badly drawn comics returns! but with a slight difference this time, thanks to Abhijeet Kini that it's not badly drawn now :)