Rahul and Luffy read

Woven by Joshua/False Knees is the third iteration of the Inktober challenge by Joshua that actually happened in November 2024. Like before, if you can't buy this book, you can read it from the False Knees Web comic, starting 1st November 2023 . I love the fact that False Knees experiments with the format every year - and for 2023 he used crayons of only two colors for his work! He actually talked about challenges that he was facing when self-publishing this work because he had to touch up the hand-drawn pages digitally before he was able to print/publish them. You should follow his Instagram page to get an inside view of the process. Venturing into speculation again, the story is about an artist who loses interest in making things but thankfully regains it by the end. The last panel is honestly tear-jerking to me at times with the quote "what should I make today?". P.S. I am eagerly waiting for Joshua to self-publish the Falsevember 2024 work.

I think I started following False Knees on Instagram sometime around 2020/2021. I started loving his work during the Inktober challenge in 2021 or Falsetober as he likes to call it. Hop! by Joshua/False Knees is the collection of comic strips that he drew during October 2021. I don't know if I am misinterpreting his work but I think it's the story of two friends. The first friend is afraid to live his life because he ran into a bunch of problems. But after a crazy day the first friend is ready to take a leap and start living his life again. I've been wanting to read this (and other books by False Knees) to Luffy for many months now and he finally obliged yesterday! He liked looking at the crows and their antics as they made their way through the city. I loved that I got to share one of the most cherished books in my library with him. If you can't buy the book, you can read the comic strips from his website for free - starting from 1st Oct 2021 . P.S. I think the co...

Let me start by writing down everything that's on the torn cover of the second-hand book I have. Puss in Boots: The Adventures of That Most Enterprising Feline Written by Mr. Philip Pullman Illustrated by Mr. Ian Beck Starring Puss himself, and featuring: One Ogre, Two Ghouls, One Aged and Respected Hermit, A Beautiful Princess (Daughter of His Most Gallic Majesty), The King of France, And of course Jacques, the Hero

Every time we visit the Bookshelf childrens' library, we pick up three books - two for Luffy and one for me - and last week, El Deafo by Cece Bell was my pick. It's been on my to-read list for long enough that I don't even remember where I came across the recommendation so it was a pleasant surprise when I came across the book at the library. I couldn't put the book down on the train once I started it. I don't remember the last time I read a non-fiction graphic novel about a differently-abled person (Daredevil is fictitious so it doesn't count). One of our fears when Preeti was pregnant with Luffy was that he would be born with a handicap. Thankfully he is a healthy boy at the moment but it's a constant background fear in my mind. The author talks about her journey after losing her hearing but I wonder how the parents adapted to live with a hearing-impaired kid. By design, the author talks about her personal experience but there must be books out there whe...

Family is visiting us in Hyderabad this week and we used the opportunity to visit Charminar and Golconda. And the entire time, Shepherd's Hill : the rise and fall of Golconda by Nikhil Gulati was running through the back of my mind. As soon as Luffy and I had finished The People of Indus by Nikhil Gulati , I looked him up and reached out to him to buy one of his earlier books - Shepherd's Hill. I live a few minutes away from Golconda but I haven't visited it since I moved to Hyderabad. I even drove past it once but didn't bother to make time to actually visit the place. After some back and forth, I was able to buy the book and immediately inhaled the 57 page non-fiction graphic novel! It is incredibly crisp and I hope Luffy reads it one day. There aren't enough non-fiction graphic novel authors in India and I hope Nikhil keeps at it. I already bought his latest book The Book of Emperors: An illustrated history of the Mughals so you all will hear about him again pr...

I think the Nib is an easy recommendation from me - I'll just be sharing lists of the publicly available comics going forwards and marking the comics which I loved the most.   From the Animals issue page on the wayback machine/internet archive Somebody's watching (⭐) Faux No More The Warner Family Pet Hall of Fame The Mother of All Choices   (⭐) Mickey the Minstrel Touring America's Beastly Roadside Attractions The Eighth Wonder of The World (⭐) Unnatural World   The Worst Pet I've Ever Had The Nib Interview : Jackson Galaxy           and from the Power issue page on the wayback machine/internet archive (⭐) Borinquen Summer Royal Remnants (⭐) Half Life Cop Con (⭐) Who gets to live in the city of the future The Mystique of Mystique Rebelling from the Rebel Girl Trope (⭐) Hope Becomes Fear The Nib Interview : Ta-Nehisi Coates (⭐) Roots to Fruits                         I'll be taking ...

Like with the Death issue, I loved the Empire Issue. Interestingly, it wasn't just about colonial empires - it as also about digital empires and media empires! The story that scarred me the most is about The Highway of Death . The Highway of Death is a six-lane highway between Kuwait and Iraq, officially known as Highway 80. It runs from Kuwait City to the border town of Safwan in Iraq and then on to the Iraqi city of Basra. The road was used by Iraqi armored divisions for the 1990 invasion of Kuwait. During the American-led coalition offensive in the Persian Gulf War, American, Canadian, British, and French aircraft and ground forces attacked retreating Iraqi military personnel attempting to leave Kuwait on the night of February 26–27, 1991, resulting in the destruction of hundreds of vehicles and the deaths of many of their occupants. Between 1,400 and 2,000 vehicles were hit or abandoned on the main Highway 80 north of Al Jahra. If I remember correctly, the Highway of Death/The ...

I just put down The People of Indus by Nikhil Gulati, Jonathan Mark Kenoyer and ran to my laptop to write a short review of it. A full-time job fuels my graphic novel reading habit and this book has been on my to-read list for a while but it never blew up in my social networks so I put off reading it. Until I borrowed the book from a local library in Hyderabad and absolutely inhaled it around dinner time. There aren't a lot of graphic novels coming out of India. At least that's how it looks to me. I should have read the book sooner. I'll have to spend time looking at criticisms of the book but i'm happy after the initial read - it prompted a bunch of interesting questions about archeology, language, history, and more. I loved it enough to want to buy his first book - Shepherd's Hill - The Rise and Fall of Golconda - on the rise and fall of the Golconda fort, which is ten minutes from where I live on Hyderabad, India! But sadly, there seems to be some problem with ...