During a discussion someone suggested to the editor of Newslaundry an idea, to basically do an illustrated Comic on Rahul Gandhi's life and career.
his reply was - Huh?!?! His CAREER?!?!? In politics??!?! Not Rahul. There is no career in politics. There is no story to his political rise. His story can be three frames. Born – kind of grew up – became MP... And kind of growing up
Some weeks passed and I had to suggest a small, 7-8 page comic to them. So I suggested the Rahul's life again. Summary ?
Born – kind of grew up – became MP... And kind of growing up
working on this with me was Suri Singh, and the style reference I shared with him was of this Children's story book I read a long time back, The Stonecutter, illustrated by Lee Cosgrove.
And we could do it in the time we had. I did the art and Suri created the illustration digitally in the style.
I did a Preface to give it the complete feel of a book, this panel in particular of the city took some time to complete...
I loved the finished product, moreover the Starting Apology Letter , which had my cartoon asking for muaafi -
You can read the comic here - http://www.newslaundry.com/2012/04/rahul-gandhi-an-illustrated-biography/
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