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Mahendra Singh

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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 · 6h

If this was a real win for authors, it would be a licensing set-up, not a one-time payment.

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Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · 18h

WHAT A TREASURE! Check this out!

Puckering manuscript is largely in Milton's own hand (copied before his blindness, full of his edits) including Lycidas, Comus, On Time, and - coolest of all - his notes towards his great epic.

Here's how the NYT described it in 1881 (I'll note some stuff after):

Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 17h

Nature's ungrateful laureate, God.

Much respect for Moby Dick but the best book about a fish is "Augustus Carp, Esq."

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Edward Hopper @edwardhopper.bsky.social · 15d

Rocks and Cove - 1929
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104377

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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 1d

Leonard Bernstein congratulating Nadia Boulanger fifty years ago in 1962, when she became the first woman to lead the New York Philharmonic in a full concert.

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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 2d

My intended audience is usually myself. I, the Supreme!

Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 2d

Would like to amend that by including illustrator. Doh!

Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 2d

No author, editor or publisher is smarter than their intended audience.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 2d

This was SOP for some of us back in the salad days of the Republic.

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Michèle Champagne @michhham.bsky.social · 7d

Arts degrees are worthless, yet what they produce is so valuable to the “AI” industry that if it had to pay for that value, it would go under. Got it.

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

www.theverge.com

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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 2d

"my nephew studies graphics"

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The Hunting of the Snark @snarkhunt.bsky.social · Aug 25

More about Mahendra Singh: snrk.de/page_the-dre....

https://snrk.de/page_the-dream-book-of-mr-pyridine/

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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 5d

AI wants copyright protections for itself but brazen theft for everyone else.

Reuters @reuters.com · 5d

US Supreme Court asked to hear dispute over copyrights for AI creations reut.rs/478nrij

US Supreme Court asked to hear dispute over copyrights for AI creations

A computer scientist on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider a ruling that a work of art generated by artificial intelligence cannot be copyrighted under U.S. law.

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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 5d

Amongst typesetters, "follow the copy out of the window" was once axiomatic.

For illustrators, "follow the concept out of the window" still makes a good Prime Directive.
#bookpub #illustration #conceptualillustration #adventuretime #posterart

Adventure Time parody of Durer's The Knight, Death and the Devil. Original art at 11 inches by 15 inches, on Denril. It enlarged nicely for a poster issue from Cartoon Network's poster division, a cool enterprise that died a premature and unjust death.

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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 5d

Ripping off my illustration work? That would be a real step up for me.

#illustration #bookpub #penandink #conceptualillustration

The demon Zyk in superhero spandex, very hip beard and quadrocorni, his arm protectively draped over the shoulders of damsel in distress. She has the head of a deranged goose and a badly awry wig.
This is an illo for the insanely talented and funny Martin Olson's "Conquest of Heaven" from Feral House, the sequel to "The Encyclopaedia of Hell". Both books are indescribably funny in a non-stupid way that only indy publishers like Feral House bother to do right anymore.
The team involved in these books went on to do the Adventure Time Encyclopaedia and Enchiridion for Abrams, a NYT-bestselling bit of bizness that demonstrates once again the value of supporting indy publishers. No Big 5 publisher will take a chance on this sort of material without someone else taking the initial risk. I believe that the guy behind AT, forget his name, sorry, was the one who demanded quality take precedence over everything else. Otherwise, it would have been the same old licensing dreck.
That's why Zyk's crotch bulges. He senses $$$, Lord Satan's bread and butter.

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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 5d

Walk tall and carry a big book.

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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 6d

Suspension of disbelief is the god of illustrators on deadline

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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 7d

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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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 11d

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 · 11d

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf with Wallace Shawm and Kevin McDonald (KITH) as George and Martha

🦇 @erikforrestjackson.com · 11d

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf with Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter as George and Martha

Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 11d

Life's a joke and all things show it,
You thought so once but now you know it.
— John Gay

Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 11d

Artist's conception of Carrollian Multiverse birthing α-Snark as mentioned in my previous skeet.

Dr. Elle, Her Celestial Majesty ✨👑🌌 @abstractica.bsky.social · 11d

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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 · 11d

Snark is a sphere whose centre is everywhere and circumference is 100% boojum.

150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social · 12d

#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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