I've worked in kidlit and in the news media, I've started and run a YA science magazine, launched multiple beer brands, and played harmonica for a series of short-lived blues bands. I'm currently working on a short story collection and a series of new picture books. Art AIs are my sworn enemies. Open for illustration / design commissions after December '22.
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New today, ‘The Flying Head at the Edge of Night’, a fantastic new short story by Yukimi Ogawa with art by Vinayak Varma.
⚡ https://interzone.digital/the-flying-head-at-the-edge-of-night/
Coming soon: 'The Ants That Eat the Bones', a story by Timothy Mudie that is also illustrated by @eyefry
IZ Digital supporters can see a preview of Varma's illustration, and art for other forthcoming IZ Digital stories, on our Discord server.
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Drew an editorial #illustration after several years: Out today on The Soup, this artwork accompanies 'The languages of linking', a beautiful essay by Rega Jha about how multilingualism leads to cultural riches that we will lose if we succumb to the increasingly shrill demands for the imposition of a single language across the country.
(Thanks to Meera Ganapathy for this commission.)
Read 'The languages of linking' here: https://thesoup.website/culturesoup/2022/11/8/the-languages-of-linking
India has no single uniting language and, for decades, political forces have proposed filling this gap with Hindi. But what would we stand to lose if we gained a 'link' language? Rega Jha examines how Indians traverse linguistic chasms in borrowed words, token gestures, and mixed vocabularies and ch
Now spinning.
And this is my #cat. His name is Monkey. He's very silly, very charming, and terribly inappropriate at the best of times. What you see here is most of what he does in life. Such a useless fellow.
