Aditya Bidikar

@adityab.net

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Probably lettered that one comic you really like. And that other one. Writer of IN YOUR SKIN, first two issues out now. Issue 3 out 24th June.

The cover to Chabouté's adaptation of Herman Melville's Moby Dick.
A screenshot of a text editor, with a written paragraph that has been blurred out, and below it, in all capitals, "the end".
This one had me at page one. Just the art would have been enough, but the themes of celebrity, inferiority, and pedestalization are ones I’m already passionate about, and I’m eager to see them further explored […]. And, of course, the lettering is on point.
It’s brilliant, risky, sexy, grotesque both in body horror and the disturbing psychology of extreme fandom, it’s filled with beautiful gestures and characters and struggles. It’s like nothing else in comics. – Deniz Camp
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
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
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
A crocodile, hand outstretched towards the reader.
Cover of the novel Boy Parts by Eliza Clark.
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
Cover to ABSOLUTE MARTIAN MANHUNTER #1.
Cover of ASCETIC GAMES by Dhirendra K. Jha, subtitled: Sadhus, Akharas and the Making of the Hindu Vote
Recently, OpenAl admitted it needs "more capital than it imagined" as it prepares to undergo a corporate restructuring to attract new investments. To reach profitability, OpenAl is said to be considering increasing the price of its various subscription tiers. The company optimistically_projects its revenue will reach $100 billion in 2029, matching the current annual sales of Nestlé.
Odyssey translations from the 19th century that are ridiculously varied.
A screenshot of a portion of an Excel sheet that says TOTAL equals 1494, and REMAINING equals 2.