The Obliteration Continues

At the launch of The Obliterary Journal yesterday at Comic Con India, contributors Vidyun Sabhaney (author of "Gurk") and Amitabh Kumar (author of "") led a workshop in which they encouraged participants to make comics out of a variety of strange materials, including x-ray paper, frisbees, cotton balls, and surgical gloves. Each participant was given an action ("running", "flying", "shitting", etc.) and asked to create a "comic" to represent that action.

Pictured below are some of the wonderful results (Thanks to Vidyun for the pictures!).

Go ahead... guess which "comic" represents which action.

Sneak Preview: The Coming Obliteration

Here's a sneak preview of "Memories of the Nayagarh Incident", one of our favourite sections of The Obliterary Journal, a collection of comics, street art, and illustration from Blaft Publications in association with Tranquebar Press -- two traditional yantra-purusha tala pattachitra, or "machine-man palm-leaf engravings", by award-winning artist Sri Pachanana Moharana from Puri. The pieces are inspired by the nearly-forgotten 1947 UFO landing and close encounter in Nayagarh, Orissa -- just weeks before the famous crash in Roswell, New Mexico.

 

The Obliterary Journal, which also includes work by Malavika.PC, Zen Marie, Subrata Gangopadhyay, Aarti Sunder, Amruta Patil, Orijit Sen, Bharath Murthy, and many others (see the full table of contents here) launches at 3:30 pm on Friday, Feb. 17th at Comic Con India, Dilli Haat, New Delhi. We're also having a release party at Yodakin Bookstore on Monday, Feb 20th. Please come if you're in Delhi!

Available for pre-order soon!

Delhi Book Launches!

The Obliterary Journal Stupid  Guy Goes to  India Blaft in association with Tranquebar is very excited to announce the upcoming release of TWO NEW BOOKS! We will be launching both titles at events during the 2nd Annual Comic Con India, in Delhi, Feb. 17th - 19th 2012. Blaft will be in stall No. 13A. Drop by and say hai!   The Obliterary Journal edited by Rakesh Khanna and Rashmi Ruth Devadasan LAUNCHING ON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17th, 2012 TIME: 3:30pm VENUE: COMIC CON, DILLI HAAT, NEW DELHI A collection of comics, street art, typography, and illustrated stories from India and beyond. Includes: *) A classic Bengali gangster comic in translation *) Traditional Odisha palm-leaf engravings of alien robot invaders *) 12th century Sanskrit algebra problems *) Bus painters from Suriname *) New work from Vidyun Sabhaney, Amitabh Kumar, Roney Devassia, and Aarti Sunder *) and much, much more!     Stupid Guy Goes to India by Yukichi Yamamatsu translated from Japanese by Kumar Sivasubramanian LAUNCHING ON SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19th, 2012 TIME: 1:00pm VENUE: COMIC CON DILLI HAAT, NEW DELHI In 2004, having never before left Japan, 56-year-old manga author Yukichi Yamamatsu travelled to India, armed with little money, less English, no sigmoid colon, and absolutely no idea of what to expect. He did, however, bring with him his formidable art skills, a missionary zeal for spreading Japanese comics culture, and a keen pair of eyes -- through which we are treated to a hilarious, brutally honest look at India as it presents itself to the foreign visitor. This is the true story of Yukichi’s adventures -- playing marbles, searching for bathrooms, betting on horses, visiting a brothel -- and his madcap mission to sell Hindi translations of samurai manga on the mean streets of the nation’s capital. Yukichi Yamamatsu will be travelling to India from Tokyo for the 2nd Annual Comic Con! Come meet a legendary mangaka, and get your copy signed! BLAFT WILL BE IN STALL No.13A   2nd Annual Comic Con Dilli Haat, New Delhi  Feb 17th-19th 2012  We'll also be having an event with several contributors to The Obliterary Journal at YODAKIN 2 Hauz Khas Village New Delhi  at 6:30 PM on Monday Feb 20th 2012 See you there!