crime-noir comic book created by Saurav Mohapatra and Vivek Shinde
The world of Mumbai Confidential lives on! Here’s the teaser for vol 2 that is currently scheduled for a Fall 2018 release.
“Mumbai Confidential Book Two: A Graveyard for Elephants” is a prose novel set in the same universe as the original graphic novel “Mumbai Confidential Book One: Good Cop, Bad Cop”
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The Mumbai Confidential hardcover edition is getting ready to be sent to press for a March 2013 release from Archaia. We had the awesome design team of Howling Monkey Studios cook up some great looking interior design pages. Posting sneak peeks of the table of content and the interior title page of the hardcover here.
The Interior Title Page
The Table of Contents
Mumbai Confidential is a creator owned crime-noir comic book series created by Saurav Mohapatra and Vivek Shinde. The “Digital First” issues are available on ComiXology and the print hardcover is due out in March 2013 from Archaia. Please do follow us on Facebook and/or Twitter.
Just a quick note to point out that Issue #5 (collecting chapters 6 and 7) of the story is now online at ComiXology. Here are a couple of pages previewing the issue with gorgeous art by Vivek and a foreword by Gotham Chopra. (click the images for hires preview)
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Mumbai Confidential is a crime-noir comic book created by Saurav Mohapatra and Vivek Shinde. It’s now available digitally at ComiXology and the print hardcover edition from Archaia will be available in March 2013.
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At long last, it’s finally happening. Just finalized the page lineup for the print hardcover version of Mumbai Confidential vol 1 “Good Cop, Bad Cop”, 144 pages chock-a-full of hardboiled goodness 🙂 We’ll be doing a final round of edits and sending that over to the printers in a week or so. Remember, the print version from Archaia hits the stands in Feb/March 2013. Meanwhile you can buy the “Digital First” editions at ComiXology store for iOS, Android and Web.
Fanboy Confidential posted a review of MC issues #1 and #2. They had good things to say about the book, and particularly for Vivek’s spectacular art. You can read the reviews here:
We had an awesome session at Mumbai Comic-con and many thanks to all those who attended. The photos of the session can be viewed on our facebook page. While you’re there, we’d love to get a “facebook like” from you. 🙂
And, last but not the least, just for kicks we created some posters for some fake “in-universe” movies featured in the book. I can’t give away the details (you’ll have to buy and read the book for that), but part of the story deals with an over-the-hill Bollywood actor who stars in movies with titles like “Gunda Coolie”,”Looteron ki Raftar”, “Inspector Hathoda”, “Bhaktiman”, “Bhaktiman Returns” and of course, the one you see below, “GUNDA DAROGA”. 🙂 So I took some of Vivek’s interior art and tried to come up with a poster for it. Hope you like it. Writing these scenes was kind of a nice change of pace from the hardboiled gritty/grim main story of the book.
Till next time…
cheers,
mohaps
Mumbai Confidential is a crime-noir comic book created by Saurav Mohapatra and Vivek Shinde. It’s now available digitally at ComiXology and the print hardcover edition from Archaia will be available in March 2013.
Facebook: http://facebook.com/mumbaiconfidential
Twitter: @mumbaiconfid
Mumbai Confidential team will be there at two conventions in the next two weeks. First off I’ll be signing at New York Comic-con from Oct 11-14 and then the MC team is scheduled to make a special appearance in an interactive Q/A session about comics in general and the making of MC at Mumbai Film and Comics Convention in Mumbai on Oct 21st.
Mumbai Confidential signing schedule at NYCC 2012
ARCHAIA Booth #1520
- Thurs, 10/11 7-8pm, Table 3
- Fri, 10/12 5-6pm, Table 3
- Sat, 10/13 12:30-1:30pm, Table 2
Here’s the free giveaway postcard/mini-litho I’ll be signing. So drop by and say hi.
Here’s the details for the Mumbai convention session
Vivek and I will be doing a session about Mumbai Confidential at Mumbai Film & Comics Convention on Oct 21st.
Plus, we might have some surprise guests 😀 from the extended Mumbai Confidential family!
We’re not big on formality, so mostly we’ll be shooting the breeze about comics and breaking into comics. We hope to have mostly a free form Q/A with the audience. Vivek and the other artists will be there in person and I shall be “live via satellite” 😀
Customary shameless Plug: Mumbai Confidential issue #4 is now online at http://bit.ly/mcdigital4
and print hardcover is due from Archaia Entertainment in March 2013.
Vivek and I were interviewed by Fiona Fernandez from the Mumbai based newspaper Mid-day. The interview is now out as part of the Sept 29, 2012 edition of Mid-day.
Click the image for a hires version.
Mid-day E-Paper Link : (Image-version) (Text-version)
Also, just a reminder that issue #4 of Mumbai Confidential will be online at ComiXology first week of October. You can buy issue #1-#3 from ComiXology for your iPad, iPhone, Android, Kindle Fire and Web reading pleasure at http://bit.ly/mcfull.
The print hardcover edition will release in March 2013 from ARCHAIA.
About Mumbai Confidential
Mumbai Confidential is a crime noir comic book series (about the infamous encounter cops of Mumbai) created by Saurav Mohapatra and Vivek Shinde [more…]
Before we start off… the mandatory spiel 🙂
Mumbai Confidential “digital first” edition is now available from ComiXology for purchase on iPhone/iPad, Android, Kindle Fire and the web. Print hardcover from Archaia will hit the bookshelves in MARCH 2013.
The launch at SDCC was awesome. Thanks to our wonderful publishers Archaia, I had a great time. We’re down to the home stretch now and Vivek is winding up the last 40 odd pages art on the book. Here are some awesome sneak peaks at his art from upcoming issues.
Vivek’s art really breathes life into the world of Mumbai Confidential.
aha, before I forget…
here’s Samit Basu on Mumbai Confidential :
Watch out for this book. If you turn your back on it, it might stab you.
Thanks, Samit. We love you too. 🙂
About Mumbai Confidential
Mumbai Confidential is a crime noir comic book series (about the infamous encounter cops of Mumbai) created by Saurav Mohapatra and Vivek Shinde [more…]
So, the Archaia page for Mumbai Confidential is up. So are creator pages for both Vivek and yours truly. As you can see on the page for MC at Archaia site, digital run starts July 2011 and the final print collection is scheduled for March 2013. So load up on the Chai Cutting and Vada Paav, the Mumbai invasion has begun 🙂
Do check out the MC Facebook page and Twitter feed. We’d love to hear back from you.
And, since we’ve made it this far, here’s a brief (in no particular order and by no means a complete) list of people (apart from the editorial team at our awesome publisher Archaia) we’d like to say thanks to (without whose support MC would’ve never happened):
About Mumbai Confidential
Mumbai Confidential is a crime noir comic book series created by Saurav Mohapatra and Vivek Shinde [more…]
Without much further ado, here are some sneak peek panels from the book featuring Vivek’s delicious art after the jump.
Oh BTW, if you haven’t please do add us on Facebook and Twitter.
Sneak Peek #1
Sneak Peek #2
About Mumbai Confidential
Mumbai Confidential is a crime noir comic book series created by Saurav Mohapatra and Vivek Shinde [more…]
So, Times of India has posted a list of notable Indian comics or as the byline puts it “Indians who bring a different side of the country to light via their comic book characters”.
[click the image for a hires view]
link to the ePaper for Dec 3rd, Mumbai Edition
As an aside, DEVI, a book I worked on at Virgin comics from issue #10-20 also made the list.
About Mumbai Confidential Digital Shorts
MUMBAI CONFIDENTIAL Digital Shorts are a series of companion comics to the first book “GOOD COP, BAD COP” by various artists using the characters created by Saurav Mohapatra and Vivek Shinde. These shorts are set in the same “universe” as the main story. Though these are not required to follow the main book, they do enhance the backstory of GOOD COP, BAD COP.
About Mumbai Confidential
Mumbai Confidential is a crime noir comic book series created by Saurav Mohapatra and Vivek Shinde [more…]