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Mumbai City Dreams, Coming of Age
Four teenagers in Mumbai start hanging out at a solitary wall left standing after the razing of a slum. One of them, an aspiring street artist who calls himself Grafity, begins to paint on the wall a mural that will become the picture of their lives: Hinglish hip-hop, designer drugs, casual violence, and street-art.
Helter Skelter Magazine is proud to support Grafity's Wall, a new graphic novel set against the street culture of Mumbai's slums. Stories of love, crime, ambition, life, and death are told through the coming of age of four teens from the city's streets, where life is cheap and all dreams come at a price.
Brought to you by the creators of Black Mumba, a noir graphic novel also set in Mumbai, and Unbound, a crowdfunding publisher that gives people the tools, support and freedom to bring their ideas to life, this is an astonishingly vibrant and fresh look at the rebellion, expression, and acceptance painted against the backdrop of India's most culturally diverse city.
Support Grafity's Wall
Grafity's Wall is currently being crowdfunded. Helter Skelter Magazine has tied up with Unbound to offer readers in India a special discounted rate for the hardcover graphic novel as well as a unique A4 art print signed by all the creators if you support the project using the link below.
Click here to book your copyThe book will be ready and shipped to you by mid–2018.
Sneak Peek
Take a look at some of the pages in Grafity's Wall.
About the Creators
Ram Venkatesan
Writer
Ram V is an author and comic book writer from Mumbai, India. He makes up stories, sometimes they have pictures. His short stories and comics have appeared in several anthologies and e-zines. In 2012 he began writing Aghori which is now an award nominated ongoing series in India. A graduate of the City University of London’s Creative Writing MA, he has since created a critically acclaimed graphic novel called Black Mumba and writes the fantasy, adventure series Brigands. Ram currently lives in London. Dog person, doodles, argumentative melancholic.
Grafity’s Wall is his most recent book.
Anand Radhakrishnan
Illustrator
Anand Radhakrishnan is an illustrator who lives and works in Mumbai, India. He graduated with a BFA from Sir J. J. Institute of Applied Art in 2011 and further studied illustration with The Art Department (The Illustration Academy).
He has created work for clients such as ImagineFX (Future Publishing), Action Lab Comics, NH7 Music Festival (OML), ADCC Kenya, SaveOurSouls Magazine, Lodha Builders and Synapse Information Services.
His first foray into comics was with cover art for Black Mumba, an anthology of stories by Ram V. He's also participated in the Bartkira project and created a six-page painted comic called Miracle Men with Ram.
Grafity’s Wall is his first full-length graphic novel.
Irma Kniivila
Colourist
Irma Kniivila works on comics and illustration as part of the RAID studio in Toronto, Canada. You can find more of her work at irmaillustration.com.
Aditya Bidikar
Letterer
Aditya Bidikar is a comic-book letterer based out of Pune, India. He is currently lettering Drifter, Black Cloud, and Winnebago Graveyard for Image Comics, Night's Dominion for Oni Press, Grant Morrison's 18 Days and Avatarex for Graphic India, and the Femme Magnifique anthology, among others. In a previous life, he's been a comics editor, and has written short stories for the Faction Paradox and Iris Wildthyme series of prose anthologies.