digital FIRSTS //DRM-free comics to
OWN+LOVE+SHARE!//
preludes WRITER Pratheek Thomas ARTISTS
THE BOY ON THE BURNING DECK
Pia Alize Hazarika & Archana Sreenivasan
LOVE LIKE A SUNSET
Jasjyot Singh Hans
“BLANKETS” Prabha Mallya
GIRL
EDITS Dileep Cherian
TWELVE, TWELVE Preludes are © 2013 Manta Ray, Bangalore All characters in this story are fictitious. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. All rights reserved.
Suggested for mature readers.
cover art & publication design Prabha Mallya back cover art Jasjyot Singh Hans TWELVE created Pratheek Thomas
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origins In early 2006, I came across an excerpt of “one shot, don’t miss”, a comic by Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan, which was part of their series called DEMO by indie publishing house AIT Planet Lar. The excerpt was only a few pages long, but I was completely hooked by the set-up and Cloonan’s ink-andshadow-heavy art. This was before the rise of the online bookstores in India, I think, ‘cos I had to get the actual collection from the Kinokuniya bookstore in KL, via a friend who was flying down from Malaysia. I’ve read Demo countless number of times since I first laid my hands on it that December. I loved Wood’s writing, his characters, the stories he told, Cloonan’s shape-shifting art was phenomenal even back then and needless to say, both of them are two of my favourite creators in comics today.
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LLAS, character sketches Jasjyot’s exlorations
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