Archive for July, 2008
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My parents (like most South Indian parents) had really high expectations. More to say on this subject, but I’ll let the strips speak to that.
-Krishna
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Drawn while baby-sitting my daughter this afternoon…
-Krishna
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Top 5 Ways to be a Jerk Cartoonist: “
1) Make sure you promise an unreasonable deadline you think the client wants, and then deliver late. Over-promise and under-deliver. Nice!
2) Take the tiniest germ of humor you can find and squeeze a cartoon out of it by writing an excessively long caption to explain why this is so funny. Brevity is wit my arse.
3) Ask for other cartoonists’ markets and contacts. Nothing endears you to a professional more than asking to see their books.
4) Argue print vs. web and refuse to consider other points of view. You know you’re right – make sure we all know it too.
5) Beg for criticism, and then explain why it’s wrong. Classy!
*I’d add a number 6) – Ignore your e-mails from your audience
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(Via Andertoons Cartoon Blog.)
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Every remote in my parents’ house has been carefully sealed in plastic. As I’ve come to find out, our family isn’t alone in this peculiar ritual.
We have remote controls in our house that are in mint condition – many of which have outlasted the actual equipment it was intended for. Perhaps my parents intended to pass these remotes onto future generations.
Now, this obsession for wrapping items in plastic doesn’t just apply to remote controls. Car seats, sofa seats, books and plastic linings on televisions and displays are all fair game.
So the obvious question is: which Indian family started this tradition of wrapping objects in plastic for preservation? Is this a phenomenon only observed in Indian households abroad, or does this apply to fellow Desi’s living in India.
Because inquiring minds want to know.
-Krishna
P.S. And, yeah, my sister calls me ‘Dude’. 
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Here are the pencils for this week’s strip.
-Krishna
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Without fail, nearly every uncle or auntie I’ve met has at some point asked me these questions when I was a youth. Especially in my mid-20′s til the time I got married. Especially with family friends (read: my parents’ social group)
There were moments where I felt as if all I needed to do was hand a sheet of paper with my answers to all the uncles and aunties in the room. It would have saved me a lot of unnecessary banter.
-Krishna
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