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Mahendra Singh
@mahendra.bsky.social
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Illustrator and author, ie., hopeless dreamer, accomplished loafer. Montreal, Earth.
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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
Connecting the dots, so Quisling, so zeitgeist.
nationalpost.com/news/another...
Another Alberta separatist leader is courting U.S. conservatives in Washington and Mar-a-Lago
The Republican Party of Alberta’s leader says he's meeting with U.S. officials to advocate for Alberta independence and strengthen ties.
nationalpost.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
If you see this, post your bird art.
Illo for my translation of La Fontaine's "Fox and Crow". Sir Crow is a beruffled, cloaked, pantalooned dandy of the early Baroque period. the prole Fox has only a ruff. This appeared in Iterant magazine, edited by Bianca Stone and published by the Ruth Stone Foundation. Long live all poets and the hopeless dreamers who publish them, long live poetry, the supreme art. Except for opera, maybe. And sometimes drawing. And sculpture, especially stone. And really cool Baroque architecture. You get the picture, it's a fiesta inside my head, 24-7.
November 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
US copyright law is getting even more bizarre. One gets the impression that a certain type of American jurist doesn't read anything outside of work anymore or have any interactions with human beings who do so.

Must-read for anyone with skin in the American game.
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
The Wall fell today, 36 years ago.
Freude=Freiheit
youtu.be/Hn0IS-vlwCI?...
The Berlin Celebration Concert 1989 - Leonard Bernstein - Beethoven Symphony No 9
YouTube video by Ricardo Spredemann
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November 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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reneefrench.bsky.social
bub looks at himself -
graphite on vellum .3mm 2b rotring 500 pencil (process video to follow)
graphite drawing with soft colors depicting the humanoid, Bub, facing away from us, looking at a floating, fibrous, wrinkled, fabric like homunculus
November 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
Skeffingtons ahoy!

justtheplaceforasnark.blogspot.com/2014/07/snar...
November 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
Adorn your thorax with timely sentiments of socialist fear and loathing. 28% off regular price because I'm a cheapster extraordinaire.
#teeshirt #socialism #illustration #sartre

www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/5361...
Hell Is Other Corporations by mahendra
So French, so wow.
www.teepublic.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
This may be paywalled for some but it's worth a read: it separates the AI sheep from the AI goats in the publishing/media biz. It's a fetid slaughterhouse out there, 61% of professional authors (mostly PR/marketing/advert wallahs) use AI in some fashion.

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
New Report Examines Writers’ Attitudes toward AI
A study commissioned by the Gotham Ghostwriters and Bernoff.com found that while 61% of professional writers are embracing AI tools, authors, specifically fiction authors, are much more wary.
www.publishersweekly.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Pas mal non ? C'est Français
davidho.bsky.social David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 14d
The difference between the French and Americans in two headlines. 😆

Sorry @alecluhn.bsky.social
CBS NEWS headline: Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag CNN headline: Stranded and injured, he drank his own urine to survive in the wild. Here's how an American hiker made it home
October 31, 2025 at 3:33 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
QRP with your horned art!
October 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
Burgess do Joyce in all their different voices.

My eyes can't handle reading anymore except for work , so I'll have to wait for the audiobook version.
October 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Wallace Polsom, “Symbolism of the Fish VI” (16 Nov 2022), paper collage, 21.4 x 24.1 cm | wallacepolsom.com/post/7010940...
October 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
I'd like to add J.-C. Valtat's New Venice to the list of weird cities.
simonguy.bsky.social Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 16d
Weird cities! I do love weird cities.

This is a good article built on a good list. It makes no claim to exhaustiveness and invites additions. I would add:

The city of Mary Gentle's novel Rats and Gargoyles.
M. John Harrison's Viriconium.
Patricia McKillip's Ombria (her novel Ombria in Shadow)
reactorsff.bsky.social Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 16d
What's the weirdest fictional city you've ever encountered? How does it stack up against these 8 deeply strange settings from the work of Vajra Chandrasekera, Clive Barker, Hiron Ennes, and more?

reactormag.com/eight-strang...
October 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
The Institute of Snarkology exists and it's awesome, much more fun than those other, more boring institutes such as MIT or the Rockefeller Institute.
#LewisCarroll #TheHuntingoftheSnark
snarkology.net
The Institute of Snarkology
The Institute of Snarkology
snarkology.net
October 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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anthonyburgess.bsky.social
🌊 NEW #99Novels EPISODE! 🌊

This week: THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT’S WOMAN by John Fowles, a postmodern recreation of Victorian England of which Anthony Burgess wrote: ‘a very modern mind is manipulating us.’

Wherever you get your podcasts or here: www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/n...
October 29, 2025 at 9:11 AM
mahendra.bsky.social
Make Wile E. Coyote happy at last with Firesign Theatre!!!
firesigntheatre.bsky.social The Firesign Theatre @firesigntheatre.bsky.social · 17d
Yes, ripped from the maw of the historical void—or more specifically from an open reel tape marked simply "Claypool"!We've uploaded WAV and MP3 files to the Internet Archive where they'll be saved for posterity and free to all comers. Now FINALLY this great art by @mahendra.bsky.social can pay off
Art by Mahendra Singh from the book/DVD reissue "The Firesign Theatre Live at the Magic Mushroom", depicting Wile E. Coyote with mushrooms growing out of his head standing in front of a trompe l'oeil tunnel, holding a sign saying "LAST TUNNEL TO FRESNO"
October 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
Thinking about goats, as is my wont, and Flossie comes to mind. An excellent milker and when I did her in drypoint, I sold enough prints to pay for almost an entire semester's tuition of art school.

Thank god for community colleges (NoVa-Alexandria) and thank god for Flossie, G.O.A.T
Flossie the Goat, a hedshot of a French Alpine done in drypoint.
October 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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snark150.bsky.social
That event takes place on occasion of the 150th anniversary (on 25th of October 2026) of the naming of Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday's tragicomedy "The Hunting of the Snark". Is that Munich artists society the only one worldwide where that anniversary (snrk.de/150th-snark-...) is celebrated?
allotria-muenchen.bsky.social Künstlergesellschaft Allotria @allotria-muenchen.bsky.social · 22d
Vortrag zu Henry Holidays Allusionen in seinen Illustrationen zu Lewis Carrolls "The Hunting of the Snark".

Zeit und Ort: Abend des 29. Oktober in München, nähe Karlsplatz.

In snrk.de/snark-talk/ hat @snark150.bsky.social seine Steigeisen für den (deutschsprachigen) Vortrag eingeschlagen.
October 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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joshuaholland.bsky.social Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · Dec 25
I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.
www.newsweek.com
December 26, 2024 at 12:03 PM
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jsief.bsky.social
“And here the earth returned from its year and flew down from the sun above, and the sound sang ever more beautifully and soft: ‘Go to your earth, you who have not yet died.’”

—‘The Parson in Jubilee: An Appendix’ (1797), trans. @unpaginated.bsky.social
jsief.bsky.social Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 22d
Jean Paul’s ‘The Parson in Jubilee: An Appendix’ (1797) is translated from German (and studiously annotated with footnotes) by Matthew Spencer. Publication date of Nov. 18. See here for a partial preview of the book’s interior:

asterismbooks.com/product/an-a...
Declaring himself the inventor of a new literary genre—one which "explains little and banters much"—Jean Paul in The Parson in Jubilee: An Appendix (1797) portrays the joys and sorrows of the Schwers family on the eve of a momentous occasion: the double fifty-year anniversaries of the parson's marriage and of his service to his village congregation. When a messenger arrives with a letter appointing the pastor's son, Ingenuin, to the pastorship from which the father will soon retire, the romance between Alithea, the family's adoptive daughter, and Ingenuin is starting to blossom. Through a series of "pastoral and encyclical letters", Jean Paul presents the reader with an uproarious satirical complement to the the books idyllic aspects. The book concludes with "The Appendix of the Appendix, or, My Christmas Eve," one of Jean Paul's most stunning and wondrous dream visions. Never before available in English, studiously annotated by translator Matthew Spencer, here is an irreverent, unclassifiable work from one of Germany's most beloved and eccentric novelists.
October 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults-Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe - living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.
October 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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reactorsff.bsky.social
Ed Park's new short story collection perfectly nostalgia, humor, and bleak circumstances against a slightly-speculative backdrop. Helen Rhee reviews An Oral History of Atlantis:

reactormag.com/book-review-...
Take a Surreal Trip Down Memory Lane with An Oral History of Atlantis by Ed Park - Reactor
Helen Rhee reviews a short story collection offering a voyage into the brilliant, weird, and hilarious mind of Ed Park.
reactormag.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
Not sure if SF readers still read Lessing's SF series, Canopus in Argos, but they should if they like their SF "crispy-critter", as they used to say in the salad days of saying such things.
sfencyclopedia.bsky.social SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 23d
Doris Lessing sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/lessin... was born and Richard A Lupoff sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/lupoff... died on this day, so here are some book and magazine covers (Artist: [couldn't identify], Brad Holland, Stephen Fabian and Richard Powers): 3rd for Lupoff's "Etchings of Her Memories":
October 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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adamroberts.bsky.social
Someone left the Louvre
ouvert
so thieves came to hoover
up the loot there
making good their getaway
from the musée
on Sunday.
October 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
Bellmer was one of the best draughtsmen of the last century. Long live the Enthused Ones!
tommasopincio.bsky.social Tommaso Pincio @tommasopincio.bsky.social · 23d
Hans Bellmer
Ritratto di Marcel Duchamp
1959
October 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM