It has been a while since we’ve received any Badmash in our inboxes. That’s because the Badmash crew has gone on a semi-permanent hiatus (as each of them moves on to other endeavours). Two Sundays ago anyone watching King of the Hill may have noticed that the lead writing credit for the episode went to former Badmash-er Sanjay Shah. The plot involved Hank Hill as the protagonist hooligan in a Grand Theft Auto-style shoot-em-up game called Pro Pain. Only fans of the show (living in Texas this is required viewing) will get why the title of the video game is so funny.
Badmash, however, isn’t the only example of a periodic desi comic strip. Readers of India Currents might also be familiar with a strip titled Small Hands, inked by Bay Area artist Nidhi Chanani. Here is an example of her cute strip:
Nidhi also has some artwork on her website in the same style as the strip. I wonder if the women from Kahani grab her up soon for help on their publication? Seems like she’d be a perfect fit.
Check out her stuff and let me know if there are other emerging comic strips we should be keeping an eye on.
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Thanks for the info. I’m missing my Badmash fix.
Awww…so cute. Seriously, more browns need to be into the cartoon strip/anime/animation industry.
Weekly strips, I would have to say, I love the Boondocks.
Check out Rachel Masilamani, hadesi cartoonist from NJ.
This is so cute! I have to check her other stuff out.
Thanks for the heads up Abhi. The women from Kahani will definitely check out Nidhi’s work. While you’re at it, can you also find the women from Kahani some writers, illustrators, interns…you get the picture. Oh, btw, the magazine just won a Parents’ Choice award, a first by a South Asian publication, I believe.
I love these. Had a good morning chuckle.
booooring.
Go Nidhi! Congrats on getting the SM mention…
Good stuff at .pOINT_bLANK
Cute but not the road desis in India are taking! Check this one – http://atlas-drugged.blogspot.com/index.html If you’ve studied in India – you’ll love the many allusions, the obsessive love-hate relationship with rock music and ofcourse the high-on-classicism sessions of teenage-student-rebels@local-tea-shops! Enjoy.
Some of Rajneesh Kapoor’s comic strips are pretty funny, such as this and this and this.
Check out the It’s Geek-2-Me and All Americans strips in INDIA New England – http://www.indianewengland.com. This issue’s comics are at http://www.indianewengland.com/ME2/Audiences/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=Publishing&mod=Publications%3A%3AArticle&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&tier=4&id=80CC495A76964C67A30651C05CBF1F87
The site’s a bitch to navigate, but the strips are cool. If you type in “Comics” in the search box, results number three on are archives of the comics. Enjoy!
Brownie
pro pain.
HAHA. I’m easily amused.