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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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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 20h
BIG KARMA: South Asian trader-missionaries exploiting hapless natives of post-apoc USA send “B.K. Baba” on perilous mission up-country — rescue America’s Last President, kick mutant ass & enjoy forbidden love of native white girl in lost jungle ruins of White House.

#DVPit #SF #A #NA
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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 20h
BIG KARMA: South Asian trader-missionaries exploiting hapless natives of post-apoc USA send “B.K. Baba” on perilous mission up-country — rescue America’s Last President, kick mutant ass & enjoy forbidden love of native white girl in lost jungle ruins of White House.

#DVPit #SF #A #NA
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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 4d
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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 4d
Illustrations by Harry Rountree for Lewis Carroll, “Alice in Wonderland” (Collins Clear-Type Press, 1931). 5/
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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 4d
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf with Wallace Shawm and Kevin McDonald (KITH) as George and Martha
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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf with Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter as George and Martha
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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 4d
Life's a joke and all things show it,
You thought so once but now you know it.
— John Gay
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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 4d
Artist's conception of Carrollian Multiverse birthing α-Snark as mentioned in my previous skeet.
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Dr. Elle, Her Celestial Majesty ✨👑🌌 @abstractica.bsky.social · 5d
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Evolution of the Cosmos from a single point (Bindu): Tantric painting — India, 18th c.
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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 4d
Snark is a sphere whose centre is everywhere and circumference is 100% boojum.
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150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social · 5d
#snarking (1866)
#TheHuntingOfTheSnark (1876)
#snark
#snarky
"SERMONS IN STONES. — On the road from Salisbury to Lymington is a milestone which is affirmed by very many to render an audible sound to those who are passing by it. It has been placed on a mound of earth by which it is so far elevated that the top of the stone is about even with the head of the pedestrian traveller. This milestone is situated in that part of the road which traverses the New Forest, near to the village called Burley. Those who assert that they hear the sound all concur in representing it to be a kind of scratching or scranching, like the edge of an iron-tipped, or the sole of a roughly-nailed, boot being harshly drawn across the gravel. I will not quite compare it to a certain kind of snarking or gnashing, [...]" Source: Notes and Queries, 1866-09-29, Series 3, Volume 10, p. 248 doi: 10.1093/nq/s3-X.248.248-f http://archive.org/stream/s3notesqueries10londuoft/s3notesqueries10londuoft_djvu.txt https://snrk.de/page_etymology-of-snark/
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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 4d
power loves power
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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 5d
If you're here (thank you) and you're a bookseller or a librarian and we don't already follow you please shout out so we can.
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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 7d
We've reached peak bullshit as artists.

Article starts with hilariously uninformed attempt to equate the old studio system with contemporary system of being a ghost-artist for talentless hacks.

Gresham's Law applies to the arts as well, bad art drives out good.

www.ft.com/content/d84c...
The secret to great art? Finding someone else to make it
Marina Abramović, William Kentridge, Jasleen Kaur and other leading artists reveal the fabricators they entrust with their creations
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X Ray Eyes @xrayeyes.bsky.social · 7d
Samuel Beckett in vacanza a Tangier con le sue ciavatte preferite, Marocco, 1978.
Scatto di François-Marie Banier.
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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 8d
We're almost at deadline for submissions to the Fall issue of Forgotten Ground Regained.

alliteration.net/call-for-submissions/
Call for Submissions: Norse and Icelandic Forms
Submit your alliterative poems to Forgotten Ground Regained by October 1
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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 9d
We've entered the Golden Age of Con Men
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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 9d
There once was an artist named Singh,
Who insisted on doing his thing.
He drew that-which-is-not,
For such was his lot,
That impecunious wretch of a Singh.

#bookpub #bookillustration #penandink #steampunk
Tompkin's Bookstore, wherein literary wallahs gather to drink tea and palaver. Semiotic glyphoids adorn the bookshelves and pee atop the books heaped up everywhere. One of many interior illos for "The Gentleman" by Forrest Leo, edited by Ed Park, ADed by Claire Vaccaro, published by PRH. This delightful novel is catnip for lovers of steampunk, Victorian poetry and Satanism.
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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 9d
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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 9d
Happy Monday! Today's Classic Cover is the 1970 edition of Hope Mirrlees' Lud-in-the-Mist, originally published in 1926. This cover was illustrated by Gervasio Gallardo, who also created covers for Peter S. Beagle and William Morris.
Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees
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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 10d
Guessing that this is an (aquatint+) etching and also marveling at the infinite lushness of black ink that's only possible with intaglio, even when degraded by digital/web repro
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 10d
and 1930s, the figures in Martin Lewis' work initiate the emotion, though they’re no more individual and personal than the buildings; the story lives in the moment of the scene. He was a key mentor to the young Edward Hopper.
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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 10d
Selling an uncategorizable novel is a bitch in publishing today. Support the team, fellow uncategorizable weirdos!
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · Oct 17
ICYMI, my mythic realist novella about a boy coming of age in an extended family who may refugees from another reality, in a house in Calcutta that may be a dragons' nest. It won a British Fantasy Award and a Subjective Chaos Kind of Award, if that affects one's inclination to read it:
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · Jul 3
Out now: THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR, my uncategorisable novella out about Ru, a 'boy from nowhere' growing up in 90s/00s Calcutta, facing the impossibility that his family may be migrants from another reality, & Alice, a neighbour from Chinatown who is pulled close to their secrets. Links below:
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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 11d
Elliott Erwitt Pablo Casals in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1957
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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 12d
This is one of the very few podcasts I listen, catnip for lovers of 20th century lit.
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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 12d
Series 5 of Ninety-Nine Novels, our podcast exploring Anthony Burgess's favourite books, is coming soon. Available wherever you get your podcasts.
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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 12d
The plot thickens, snark ho!
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The Hunting of the Snark @snarkhunt.bsky.social · 13d
On November 1835, Charles Darwin breakfasted in Tahiti while folks back home had their five-o’clock tea (snrk.de/page_breakfa...).

#Snark #TheHuntingOfTheSnark #CharlesDarwin #Tahiti #Breakfast #HMSbeagle

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · Oct 8
Easily one of the top five most influential maritime journeys in history. This is the voyage Charles Darwin took on the HMS Beagle. Source: www.britannica.com/biography/Ch...
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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 13d
Quite amusing that a nativist cannot speak his native language.
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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 15d
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Cartoon Crossroads Columbus @cartooncrossroads.bsky.social · 15d
TCJ interviews Bud Plant, our 2025 Tom Spurgeon Award Winner!

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Bud Plant is calling it a day: A conversation with the comics retail pioneer - The Comics Journal
Bud Pant's Incredible Exit Interview by Zach Rabiroff.
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Save the CBC 🇨🇦✌️ @savethecbc.bsky.social · 15d
📊 45% of Conservatives in Canada approve of Trump. Every other party? Under 7%.

That’s not coincidence — it’s alignment. Supporting Conservatives today means importing Trump’s chaos into Canada.
This is why we need CBC — the last firewall against MAGA-style disinfo.

👉 r.pebmac.ca/https://www....
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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 16d
it reeks of no adults left in the room
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