Sneak peek at the interior pages of the hardcover

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
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The Table of Contents
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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.

Updates, Reviews, and Previews

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 πŸ™‚ 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. πŸ™‚

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”. πŸ™‚ 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.

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Reviews and updates

So the reviews for Mumbai Confidential are trickling in.

and, before we leave… a sneak peak at the cover of Mumbai Confidential #5 (inspired by the hand painted retro film posters of Bollywood of yesteryear) πŸ™‚

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Mumbai confidential “Digital First” editions are now available for purchase at ComiXology for iOS, Android and Web. Mumbai Confidential #3 will be online and available for purchase first week of September.

The print hardcover edition is scheduled for 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…]

Some more preview art and other updates

Before we start off… the mandatory spiel πŸ™‚

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. πŸ™‚

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…]

Some Sneak Peek Panels

Without much further ado, here are some sneak peek panels from the book featuring Vivek’s delicious art after the jump.

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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…]

Sneak Peak

Click. See and bask in the utter awesomeness of Vivek’s art πŸ™‚

A sneak peek from the interior art for Mumbai Confidential vol 1 “GOOD COP, BAD COP” ( read the preview here )

and, ah, did I mention that the book features multiple art styles as executed by Vivek? πŸ˜›

About Mumbai Confidential

Mumbai Confidential is a crime noir comic book series created by Saurav Mohapatra and Vivek Shinde [more…]