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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 25/09/2026

My nth time reading Watchmen and I only noticed this bit of foreshadowing now. (It’s the comic back cover.)

Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 10/07/2026

Began doodling ideas for the next font because I had a free afternoon. Not too shabby for a day's work, I think. I'm thinking this would work great with 3-4 alternates – organic, bouncy, unpredictable.

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 27/06/2026

Two life drawings from today.

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 25/06/2026

Did a pose study of Gil Kane’s Superman in the closest thing I have to what one might call a “style”.

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 25/06/2026

Playing with more cartoony rendering and digital watercolour.

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 25/06/2026

This might be a bit “the golden age of comics was 12”, but damn, nobody draws Superman like Gil Kane, particularly when he’s flying.

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 03/06/2026

Deskshot: New Deicidium pages.

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 16/04/2026

Just wrapped up the final script for IN YOUR SKIN. I don't know quite how to feel, but this is the first longform story – the first *book* – I have finished. There's a lot of work left – editing, responding to the art, writing backmatter etc., and of course the lettering – but this part is *done*.

A screenshot of a text editor, with a written paragraph that has been blurred out, and below it, in all capitals, "the end".

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 01/04/2026

Finished SFX (minus art).

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 01/04/2026

Is that enough BRAKKAs for this panel? I dunno, let me draw five more.

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 28/03/2026

Here's @danpg22.bsky.social, writing in his newsletter:

$It is grotesque and beautiful; disturbing and sexual. \[…\] The book has shades of David Lynch in how it creates unease, though I pause before I bring up his name. Most art that invokes Lynch is not as thoughtful in its choices as this comic is. – Dan Watters$

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 28/03/2026

Here's what Chip Zdarsky said in his newsletter:

A wonderful dive into fandom and horror by way of Bollywood, this first issue is both gorgeous and unsettling. Aditya has been known for years as one of the industry’s greatest letterers and now he’s proving he’s also one of its greatest writers. – Chip Zdarsky

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 28/03/2026

Preorders for IN YOUR SKIN #1 close on Monday March 30th. Here's some of the nice things people have been saying about the book. From the amazing @ashcanpress.com:

In Your Skin feels both tense and comfortably dreamlike somehow, like waking from a nightmare you are desperate to return to. The ethereal art and poetic writing keep drawing you in until it’s too late to look away. This book haunts. – Matthew Rosenberg

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 23/03/2026

ISSUE 3: Cover A by Som. Cover B by @juniba.bsky.social. Issue 3 is out June 24th.

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 23/03/2026

Covers for the next couple of issues are also out in the wild. ISSUE 2: Cover A by Som. Cover B by Dani. Issue 2 is out May 27th.

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 27/02/2026

One of life’s great pleasures is Anand RK drawing you.

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 29/01/2026

Cover D (a 1:25 variant) is by the great @tulalotay.bsky.social. She is one of the finest cover artists in comics, and her cover blends her trademark mix of poise and sensuality with classic Bollywood poster design.

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 29/01/2026

Cover C (a 1:10 variant) is by my friend, collaborator and award-winning artist Anand RK. Anand was the first friend I narrated this story to, and I asked if he’d do a cover if/when this book ended up happening. To my delight, he provided this gorgeous fully painted cover.

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 29/01/2026

Apart from Som, we’ve got a who’s who of amazing comics artists providing our variants. Our Cover B is by @mllovet.bsky.social, one of my favourite artists right now blending horror and erotica.

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 29/01/2026

Now that IN YOUR SKIN has been announced (and available for PRE-ORDER with your comics retailer), I wanted to showcase our wonderful covers for Issue 1. Our main cover (A) is by series artist Som. This is the first of four beautiful pieces of art that will be gracing our series.

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 27/01/2026

IN YOUR SKIN is a body horror comic based in Bollywood, emerging from my love-hate relationship with Hindi movies. This is a story I’ve wanted to tell for ages, and I’m excited to do it with an artist whose work I’ve admired for a very long time.

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 11/01/2026

This one went in an interesting comics-y direction.

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 11/01/2026

Not sure I like these, but they’re something new.

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 11/01/2026

Favourites from today’s life drawing session with Mar.

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 03/01/2026

First drawing session of the year. Some sketches I liked. 2-minute sketches.

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 23/12/2025

Got some film scans back today. I really enjoy the mirror portrait genre, as you can tell.

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 22/12/2025

Three pages of lettering work left for the year!

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 04/11/2025

Totally missed this when it happened a month ago, but it's now been nine years since I quit smoking.

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 11/09/2025

Found it funny that there are THREE comic covers out this week that do this hand thing. Four if you count palm up.

A crocodile, hand outstretched towards the reader.

An X-person, hand outstretched towards the reader.

Superman, hand outstretched towards the reader.

Spawn, hand outstretched towards the reader, palm facing up.

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 31/07/2025

Doing a month-long Digital Declutter, inspired by a reread of Cal Newport’s Digital Minimalism. See you on the other side.

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 28/06/2025

Just finished reading BOY PARTS. I saw this categorised as horror, while my partner found it in crime fiction recommendations. It's neither, it's a literary novel on a disturbing subject. But it's great—grim, funny, uncomfortable and occasionally distressing. Loved it.

Cover of the novel Boy Parts by Eliza Clark.

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 13/06/2025

I recently bought a copy of Hobson-Jobson (a colonial guide to India for British people from the late 19th century) and it’s got such fun historical tidbits. (“Daam” is now a generic Hindi word for “cost”, while in Bengal, taka is rupee as well as the currency of Bangladesh.)

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 03/06/2025

I'm not sure why, but as a writer, it bothers me when people are impressed by this kind of mirroring/thematic reflection. Writers should this, yes, but it should be seen as a fairly basic technique than something remarkable.

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 31/05/2025

Only the first draft, but still, something to celebrate.

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 23/05/2025

Some of my favourite photos by Sebastião Salgado were those of gold miners, who look like they're shaped out of the same ground they're working under. RIP.

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 19/05/2025

Over the weekend, I attended an analogue photography workshop, learned how to develop my own film, made a contact sheet, learnt how to make test strips, as well as a darkroom print. It was, from start to end, a delightful experience.

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 16/05/2025

A balloon I did today at work that I liked:

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 31/03/2025

Wendell Berry, from “Why Am I Not Going to Buy a Computer”.

which will be a great deal more abundant as soon as it can be done by robots.
This hatred of the body and of the body's life in the natural world, always inherent in the technological revolution (and sometimes explicitly and vengefully so), is of concern to an artist because art, like sexual love, is of the body. Like sexual love, art is of the mind and spirit also, but it is made with the body and it appeals to the 59 senses. To reduce or shortcut the intimacy of the body's involvement in the making of a work of art (that is, of any artifice, anything made by art) inevitably risks reducing the work of art and the art itself. In addition to the reasons I gave previously, which I still believe are good reasons, lam not going to use a computer because I don't want to diminish or distort my bodily

be coming to me from the power structure or the power grid, but from another direction and way entirely. My mind is free to go with my feet.
I know that there are some people, perhaps many, to whom you cannot appeal on behalf of the body. To them, disembodiment is a goal, and they long for the realm of pure mind - or pure machine; the difference is negligible. Their departure from their bodies, obviously, is much to be desired, but the rest of us had better be warned: they are going to cause a lot of dangerous commotion on their way out.
SOME OF MY critics were happy to say that my refusal to use a computer would not do any

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 03/03/2025

Back to toying with this font idea I'd abandoned a couple of years ago, inspired by Tom Orz, and a little bit of Dave McKean, and … I really like how this looks.

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 27/02/2025

ABSOLUTE MARTIAN MANHUNTER is: a) gorgeous, thanks to @javierrodriguez.bsky.social, b) probably the best thing @denizcamp.bsky.social has written yet, c) a formal feast of the kind I've been missing in comics, d) reminiscent of early Vertigo in the best way. I can't wait for everyone to read it.

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