Mahendra Singh
LightNews LightNews
banner
mahendra.bsky.social
Mahendra Singh
@mahendra.bsky.social
2.2K followers 470 following 1K posts
Illustrator and author, ie., hopeless dreamer, accomplished loafer. Montreal, Earth.
https://campsite.bio/mahendra_singh
Posts Replies Media Videos
Pinned
mahendra.bsky.social
Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · Jul 8
#portfolioday
#Kidlit and adult book covers and interiors, magazines, license work, comix. Pen and ink and pencil. Let my cerebellum enlighten your audiences. No AI here, only wholesome, gluten-free natural intelligence.

#bookillustration #GN #WasteLand #Krishna #FiresignTheatre #modernism
The Fisher King maimed by heaven's spear. Cover for WiP, unabridged GN version of TWL. Looking for a publisher who groks what I do. Krishna sitting in the shade, holding his flute, caressing a calf. A baby elephant, langur monkey, peacock and chital deer lurk in the vegetation, attracted by the opportunity to hear the music of heaven. Cover for a kidlit book put out by Feral House (USA). Intrepid jungle explorers (one of whom is a Minotaur) part the giant mushroom thickets to catch a glimpse of the legendary Armenian's Paw. Conceptual art is more talked about then practiced or perhaps the meaning of the phrase has evolved. Or devolved. Done for the Firesign Theatre's Magic Mushroom Plays CD/booklet, ADed by @taylorjessen. Another page from WiP: unabridged graphic novelization of TWL. Lines 71 to 76: Stetson venerating the headless corpse growing in his garden, Stetson beating Dog with a bone whilst the Hooded Shades in the City of the Dead file past him, the Shades filing into Charon's boat to cross the Styx-Thames as the Dog runs free, finally, the Dog sees int's reflection in the river water, it is the Narrator. This project is looking for a home, preferably with a publisher who has a thing for bringing high-calibre titles to the academic/school market.
mahendra.bsky.social
They will be swamped with applications.
knibbs.bsky.social Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 17h
X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications
January 30, 2026 at 9:20 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-teams-...
Trump Team’s Secret Meetings With Group Plotting to Break Up Canada Exposed
Trump officials have met with activists from the Alberta Prosperity Project, a separatist group that wants independence for its province.
www.thedailybeast.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Reposted by Mahendra Singh
busterandme.bsky.social
Beware Alberta & Quebec you are the appetizers on the attack Canada menu. ❤️🍁💪 #alpoli #qcpoli #cdnpoli
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAhP...
January 29, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Reposted by Mahendra Singh
brianlarossa.com
Hey #Kidlit, I donated a one hour portfolio/dummy critique to raise money for Minnesota. The auction will run from Thursday at 12AM untill Friday at 11:45PM.

💙❤️

www.32auctions.com/organization...
Publishing for Minnesota Logo
January 27, 2026 at 9:48 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
anthonyburgess.bsky.social International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 3d
The Observer Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism is looking for the best new voices in cultural criticism.

Entries close on 28 February 2026, so get scribbling!

First prize is £3000 and publication in @theobserveruk.bsky.social

Find out how to enter: www.anthonyburgess.org/observeranth...
January 28, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Reposted by Mahendra Singh
pinotevil.bsky.social
It’s not box wine, it’s cardboardeaux.
January 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Reposted by Mahendra Singh
ldobsonhughes.bsky.social
The auto sector employs 136,300 people in Ontario
jobbank-guichetemplois.service.canada.ca/SectoralProf...

The arts sector: 173,000 people in Ontario
www.jobbank.gc.ca/trend-analys...

The university sector: 310,000 people in Canada, over half in Ontario higheredstrategy.com/estimating-e...
wsj.com The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 3d
Exclusive: A recent deal by Canada to allow tens of thousands of inexpensive Chinese EVs into the country is a risk to North American auto manufacturing, GM’s CEO says.
Canada’s Move to Import Cheap Chinese EVs is ‘Slippery Slope,’ GM CEO Says
Thousands of electric vehicles from Chinese automakers can enter Canada this year at new low tariff rate
on.wsj.com
January 28, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Reposted by Mahendra Singh
socialsecurityworks.org
Over 300,000 Americans demanded that Sen. Crapo investigate DOGE's theft of our data.

He is feeling the pressure — but we need a full Congressional investigation, not just a letter.
January 27, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Reposted by Mahendra Singh
cultmtl.com
Why are our tax dollars subsidizing American propaganda?
January 26, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Reposted by Mahendra Singh
devedy.bsky.social
From "Easter 1916" by WB Yeats
January 26, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Reposted by Mahendra Singh
rachelgilmore.bsky.social
This is a big deal even if it isn't surprising (it should be! but this is modern right-wing politics, apparently!)

The Conservative Party isn't accrediting @nationalobserver.com, but gives "content creator" accreditation to people like a streamer that begged me for feet pics and "Berta Proud Dad."
Federal Conservatives trade journalists for partisan cheerleaders
When Conservatives gather in Calgary at their convention next weekend, right-wing “content creators” will be welcomed as journalists. This publication, not so much.
www.nationalobserver.com
January 26, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Reposted by Mahendra Singh
mahendra.bsky.social
Chez Singh, the werewolves are crosshatched to within an inch of their natty lives.

#werewolf #penandink #crosshatching #illustrator
A werewolf standing in an open space, surrounded by human bones and skulls. He plucks at his loincloth, the crosshatching is making him itchy. I can't remember the precise Renaissance image I borrowed the pose from but I do remember doing this for a sample of an illustrated Ovid, this image being Lycaon from the first canto.
October 31, 2024 at 2:43 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
Spirit animals rocked the Renaissance.
wallacepolsom.bsky.social Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 9d
A chimera, 1590-1610, attributed to Jacopo Ligozzi (1547-1627).
January 21, 2026 at 7:33 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
brianlarossa.com Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 9d
If you're an illustrator and you've ever cold emailed me and I haven't replied please know that I do wish I had bandwidth to reply to every cold email that I receive for whatever that's worth.

Don't forget I also have an illustrator contact form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

💙❤️
Illustrator Contact Form
Hello! My name is Brian LaRossa, I’m executive art director in Scholastic’s hardcover picture book group, where I’ve worked for more than 20 years. I oversee our Branches and Acorn imprints which are ...
docs.google.com
January 21, 2026 at 5:06 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
A prime minister who knows his Thucydides and Havel!
January 21, 2026 at 2:40 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
Eat the enemy.
dbellingradt.bsky.social Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 12d
Roses are red
AI pretends to know best
Screenshot of the article: Alaska Art Student Arrested for Eating Another Student’s AI-Generated Art in Protest
January 20, 2026 at 3:25 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
Goya is always relevant.
wallacepolsom.bsky.social Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 11d
Francisco Goya (1746-1828), “The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters” (c. 1799), etching, aquatint, drypoint, and burin, 15 x 21.5 cm.
January 19, 2026 at 6:55 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
Good, Lesser-Known Novels for Political Junkies, by a Not-So-Good, Completely-Unknown Political Junky

Zayni Barakat, Gamal al-Ghitani
I the Supreme, A.R. Bastos
The Iron Dream, Norman Spinrad
A Journal of the Plague Year, Defoe (agitprop is novel)
Crowds & Power, Elias Canetti (it's really a novel)
Man in loincloth on his knees, supplicating the heavens for mercy. His limbs morph into interconnected chains. The image is a riff on the famous "Am I Not a Man" image of the Abolitionists (if I'm remembering the details correctly). This illo is from American Candide, an updating of Voltaire's Candide done by myself in the hope of alerting modern youth to whatever the hell it is that I think is going on. It's a fiesta inside the Singh noggin, buy my book and enjoy the finest political Gemütlichkeit money can buy: https://rosariumpublishing.com/novels/novels/american-candide.html
January 19, 2026 at 5:23 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
Worth a read. There's an animated film version also. Gardner was one to watch for in the good old days.
simonguy.bsky.social Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 12d
"Nothing was changed, everything was changed, by my having seen the dragon. It's one thing to listen, full of scorn and doubt to poets' versions of time past and visions of time to come; it's another to know, as coldly and simply as my mother knows her pile of bones, what is."
A photo of a copy of the 1973 Picador edition of Grendel by John Gardner. The cover art is by Michael Leonard.
January 18, 2026 at 9:57 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
Italian printmaking, toujours sprezzatura.
wallacepolsom.bsky.social Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 12d
Two woodcuts by Antonio Maria Zanetti after Parmigianino, produced in 1) 1724 and 2) 1725 (though it says 1723 — presumably the date of the original drawing — below Parmigianino’s mark).
January 18, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Reposted by Mahendra Singh
michaelgerber.bsky.social
“I demand to die peacefully in my bed, just like Jesus did!”
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 13d
The Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire told priests protesting ICE to get their wills and affairs in order. Some praise the bishop, while other priests say they never signed up to be martyrs. n.pr/45TIwwT
Amid ICE clashes, New Hampshire bishop urges clergy to prepare their wills
The Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire told priests protesting ICE to get their wills and affairs in order. Some praise the bishop, while other priests say they never signed up to be martyrs.
n.pr
January 18, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Reposted by Mahendra Singh
six18sfoundry.bsky.social
Flip away from NFL to Satyajit Ray for a bathing elephant & what is possibly a man playing a sarod or a dhrupad
Man washing an elephant in river music room by Ray Man w stringed instrument and a bow
January 18, 2026 at 12:57 AM
mahendra.bsky.social
My favourite Ray fillum. Waiting for the barbarians and then we dance.
six18sfoundry.bsky.social David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 13d
The Music Room 1958 Satyajit Ray. Slow to develop w fierce though desultory focus. Trust the process, & Ray, give it time & attention
Man hustling a water pipe from a doorway onto an old concrete brick huge roof terrace B&W Man in chair outside sucking depressedly from huge water pipe Horse charging up from distance past fountain and new sapling and on right a falling into disrepair huge Indian manor or palace Chill as f&$k 4 guys on floor wailing away w Indian instruments. I have to get their album once I find out who they are. In huge mirror behind we see seated crowd of people in white on pillows
January 18, 2026 at 3:24 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
It takes a village to make a bird-brain.

#TheHuntingoftheSnark #graphicnovel #comix
Victorian gent, birdcage in place of head, Brancusi's Flying Bird inside it. Nautical scenery behind him, Miro and Jean Arp birds loiter on rigging, etc. From my GN version of Lewis Carroll's Hunting of the Snark, pubbed by Melville House. So many books, so little money, so much happiness!
January 16, 2026 at 4:42 PM