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Mahendra Singh
@mahendra.bsky.social
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Illustrator and author, ie., hopeless dreamer, accomplished loafer. Montreal, Earth.
https://campsite.bio/mahendra_singh
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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · Jul 8
#portfolioday
#Kidlit and adult book covers and interiors, magazines, license work, comix. Pen and ink and pencil. Let my cerebellum enlighten your audiences. No AI here, only wholesome, gluten-free natural intelligence.

#bookillustration #GN #WasteLand #Krishna #FiresignTheatre #modernism
The Fisher King maimed by heaven's spear. Cover for WiP, unabridged GN version of TWL. Looking for a publisher who groks what I do. Krishna sitting in the shade, holding his flute, caressing a calf. A baby elephant, langur monkey, peacock and chital deer lurk in the vegetation, attracted by the opportunity to hear the music of heaven. Cover for a kidlit book put out by Feral House (USA). Intrepid jungle explorers (one of whom is a Minotaur) part the giant mushroom thickets to catch a glimpse of the legendary Armenian's Paw. Conceptual art is more talked about then practiced or perhaps the meaning of the phrase has evolved. Or devolved. Done for the Firesign Theatre's Magic Mushroom Plays CD/booklet, ADed by @taylorjessen. Another page from WiP: unabridged graphic novelization of TWL. Lines 71 to 76: Stetson venerating the headless corpse growing in his garden, Stetson beating Dog with a bone whilst the Hooded Shades in the City of the Dead file past him, the Shades filing into Charon's boat to cross the Styx-Thames as the Dog runs free, finally, the Dog sees int's reflection in the river water, it is the Narrator. This project is looking for a home, preferably with a publisher who has a thing for bringing high-calibre titles to the academic/school market.
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#LewisCarroll #HuntingoftheSnark #graphicnovel
Magritte's Menaced Assassin as Victorian tableau with Lewis Carroll playing all the part. From my Hunting of the Snark GN, Melville House. Good Xmas present for kids who are pissed off at the pablum forced down their throats by pop culture. You know who they are.
November 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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I wrote a novel about American politics, American Candide, because I'm too dumb to know that you'll never make money telling people they're even dumber than oneself.

Published by Rosarium Publishing, a very cool indy publisher on the side of the angels.

indiepubs.com/products/ame...

#Voltaire
March 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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anthonyburgess.bsky.social
🍆 NEW NINETY-NINE NOVELS EPISODE🍆

This week, the thorny issue of PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT by PHILIP ROTH. Is the novel more than its reputation? Is it really just about onanism? Roth expert Matthew Shipe helps us find out.

All the usual places and here: www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/n...
November 26, 2025 at 9:48 AM
mahendra.bsky.social
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?

My kismet is acme.
Wile E. Coyote with naughty mushrooms growing out of his head, holding a sign saying "Last Tunnel to Fresno" in front of a cement wall on which is painted the entrance to a tunnel. Done for the Firesign Theatre's Magic Mushroom plays. Taylor Jessen AKA @sidfudd, just found the long-lost tape of LTtF: https://bsky.app/profile/firesigntheatre.bsky.social/post/3m4bqni3jrc2y
November 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
I'm an autocrat without a crat. Hear me roar.
#conceptualillustration #bookillustration #penandink #satan #feralhouse #martinolson
Quadro-horned demon pulling apart his enferic vestments to reveal the shining countenance of Lord Satan he keeps buried somewhere inside himself. Done for "The Conquest of Heaven" by Martin Olson, Feral House, a publishing house that's always been a friend of Enthused readers, authors and artists. Ditto Martin, who's a good egg, as we used to say before the Fall.
November 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
Worth a spin on the ol' gramophone.
betheena.bsky.social Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 2d
Gershwin- Rhapsody in Blue - Jesús María Sanromá & the Boston Pops Orchestra recorded 7/1/1935. - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubxn...

Legendary Puerto Rican pianist Jesús María Sanromá (1902-1984)

Here he is in the 1st complete recording in history of "Rhapsody in Blue" by Gershwin.
Gershwin- Rhapsody in Blue - Jesús María Sanromá & the Boston Pops Orchestra recorded 7/1/1935.
YouTube video by Thomas Jardine
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November 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Hire me to illustrate your book or I'll make every anapest in your publishing house go iambic.

#TheHuntingoftheSnarkGN #MelvilleHouse #illustrator
October 25, 2024 at 3:38 PM
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ridleyal.bsky.social
'portmantoe' is my new portmanteau meaning "men's shoes"
November 23, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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ICYMI, my novella THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR, which among other things imagines how the cuisine of an extradimensional diaspora in Calcutta might develop, is out in S. Asia as a paperback, in N. America as a limited ed hardcover, & the world as an ebook:
November 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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writerlaurabee.bsky.social
Found out today adding "-ai" to a Google Search no longer eliminates the AI overview.

(Unfortunately, I'm still dependent on some Google functions. No longer on Meta or X so baby steps...)

Anyway, found this. Seems to work a charm. Sharing is caring!

www.online-tech-tips.com/how-to-turn-...
How to Turn Off Google AI Search: Get Back to Classic Search Results
Turn off Google AI search with these easy steps for Chrome and Edge. With a few simple adjustments, you can clear away search clutter and unwanted AI Overviews.
www.online-tech-tips.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
Buy books from indy publishers who love books.
jsief.bsky.social Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 4d
The latest three titles in the Empyrean Series arrived in Seattle from the printer this past week!

Learn more abt these new books from Jean Paul, Pierre Custot, & Fernando Pessoa, & the rest of the series catalogue, here: asterismbooks.com/publisher/em...
November 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Reskeet w/ a time you looked cool.
Kitty-cat-woman seduces & ingests callow youth. From "The Adventures of Mr. Pyridine", my first national, Fantagraphics.
November 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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politico.eu POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 7d
An important message from the OECD's Francesca Colombo: the mental health of youth was in decline before Covid-19.

"That’s what we see from data," she says at our #POLITICOHealthCare summit.

🎥 Watch live: x.com/i/broadcasts...
November 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
mahendra.bsky.social
More beards, I can't get enough of them. And yet I possess none!
November 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
Connecting the dots, so Quisling, so zeitgeist.
nationalpost.com/news/another...
Another Alberta separatist leader is courting U.S. conservatives in Washington and Mar-a-Lago
The Republican Party of Alberta’s leader says he's meeting with U.S. officials to advocate for Alberta independence and strengthen ties.
nationalpost.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
If you see this, post your bird art.
Illo for my translation of La Fontaine's "Fox and Crow". Sir Crow is a beruffled, cloaked, pantalooned dandy of the early Baroque period. the prole Fox has only a ruff. This appeared in Iterant magazine, edited by Bianca Stone and published by the Ruth Stone Foundation. Long live all poets and the hopeless dreamers who publish them, long live poetry, the supreme art. Except for opera, maybe. And sometimes drawing. And sculpture, especially stone. And really cool Baroque architecture. You get the picture, it's a fiesta inside my head, 24-7.
November 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
US copyright law is getting even more bizarre. One gets the impression that a certain type of American jurist doesn't read anything outside of work anymore or have any interactions with human beings who do so.

Must-read for anyone with skin in the American game.
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
The Wall fell today, 36 years ago.
Freude=Freiheit
youtu.be/Hn0IS-vlwCI?...
The Berlin Celebration Concert 1989 - Leonard Bernstein - Beethoven Symphony No 9
YouTube video by Ricardo Spredemann
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November 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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reneefrench.bsky.social
bub looks at himself -
graphite on vellum .3mm 2b rotring 500 pencil (process video to follow)
graphite drawing with soft colors depicting the humanoid, Bub, facing away from us, looking at a floating, fibrous, wrinkled, fabric like homunculus
November 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
Skeffingtons ahoy!

justtheplaceforasnark.blogspot.com/2014/07/snar...
November 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
Adorn your thorax with timely sentiments of socialist fear and loathing. 28% off regular price because I'm a cheapster extraordinaire.
#teeshirt #socialism #illustration #sartre

www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/5361...
Hell Is Other Corporations by mahendra
So French, so wow.
www.teepublic.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
This may be paywalled for some but it's worth a read: it separates the AI sheep from the AI goats in the publishing/media biz. It's a fetid slaughterhouse out there, 61% of professional authors (mostly PR/marketing/advert wallahs) use AI in some fashion.

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
New Report Examines Writers’ Attitudes toward AI
A study commissioned by the Gotham Ghostwriters and Bernoff.com found that while 61% of professional writers are embracing AI tools, authors, specifically fiction authors, are much more wary.
www.publishersweekly.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Pas mal non ? C'est Français
davidho.bsky.social David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26d
The difference between the French and Americans in two headlines. 😆

Sorry @alecluhn.bsky.social
CBS NEWS headline: Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag CNN headline: Stranded and injured, he drank his own urine to survive in the wild. Here's how an American hiker made it home
October 31, 2025 at 3:33 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
QRP with your horned art!
October 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
Burgess do Joyce in all their different voices.

My eyes can't handle reading anymore except for work , so I'll have to wait for the audiobook version.
October 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM