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Bleeding Hearts is a feast for your eyes and out this week! Pull up a chair, tie on a bib, and dig in this Wednesday! C'mon, DIE a little!

Are you reading THE DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH? Who can protect America from wild fictions? And how cool is this image for next month? @martinsimmonds.bsky.social @jamesthefourth.bsky.social @adityab.net @ssnyder1835.bsky.social @joshixson.bsky.social

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Just wrapped up a second draft of In Your Skin #3 – the shortest issue of the series thus far, also, somehow, the hardest to write. I think it’s turned out real well though.

Colette’s semi-autobiographical novel Chéri, about difficult liaisons, published in 1920, was illustrated twenty years later by one of our favourite artists, Léon Courbouleix. You can see all the illustrations at honesterotica.com/portfolios/5... – it might inspire you to read the book!

Thursday morning. Tilda Swinton as “Maddalena Penitente” in Caravaggio, Derek Jarman (1986)

5/2/26

All she wants is a box of matches.

A request: The open rate on my newsletters has dipped a fair bit since I shifted providers. If you think you are subscribed to my newsletter but haven't received on in a while, it's worth checking your spam folder and marking it as "not spam", or marking it a trusted sender.

New post on the blog: IN YOUR SKIN – more on variant covers, coverage, and I got a lot of questions about the book's release in India, so a bit about that. www.adityab.net/in-your-skin...

My first coloured comic comes to a close as the final issue of Everything Dead & Dying is out! I feel incredibly lucky to have been a part of this amazing project! Thanks to everyone who picked one up 💫 @thatjacobphillips.bsky.social @eharburn.bsky.social @tatebrombal.bsky.social @adityab.net

In 1946, cartoonist & illustrator Noel Sickles was sent by Life magazine to sketch the Nuremberg trials. Here is his sketch of the execution of Joachim Von Ribbentrop, who claimed at trial that his boss had made all of the important decisions, & that he was only following orders.

Nikolai Kochergin (1897-1974)

Magazine cartoons are good.

DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression. CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school? DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town. C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name? DR: Now look

Love to see Alex Toth swinging for the fences.

What's it like to create during a crisis? I talked with members of the Minneapolis comic community like @trungles.com, @zandercannon.bsky.social, K. Woodman-Maynard, and more about making comics during ICE's occupation, the ICE Out Comics initiative, and more. This is open to non-subscribers.

New blog post: completely unexpectedly, Wonder Man is not only a good show, but one that has inspired me to write about the MCU again. Its success, however, is rooted in avoiding the things that the rest of the franchise is chasing, to its detriment. wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2026/02/wond...

There are a LOT of people reading my piece on the Minneapolis comics community, so as a note, if you would like to read more writing about comics like that or would like to support the work that goes into it, subscribe to SKTCHD. My site is entirely independent, ad-free, and funded by subscribers.

Today, I was scouring through my records to figure out if I complete a decade of freelance lettering at the end of September 2026 or October 2026. Turns out I *already* completed a decade of freelancing in September 2025. Cheers, I guess…

Tangerine and olive india ink. An old piece for a fundraiser.

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This has been on my reading pile for a while and I finally read it this morning. The Fables of Erlking Wood by Juni Ba and Aditya Bidikar is stunning and I shed a tear in the middle of it. Well worth a read. Published by @goatsflyingpress.com

Did you know Chris and I have a BRAND NEW series out this month?

One of Aristide Maillol’s early commissions, in 1939, was to illustrate Paul Verlaine’s Chansons pour Elle, poems about passion and desire. His spare, stylish woodcuts are a perfect complement to Verlaine, and you can see them all now at www.honesterotica.com/portfolios/5....

What really makes me sad about this situation is that everyone hating on him for this are people who are – supposedly – *fans* of his work. Like, his crime was to make something you *like*, and you're *angry* at him for it.

A little late, but I had reasons – finally got around to doing a "2025 in Review" post on the blog. This is basically everything I was up to last year. www.adityab.net/2025-in-revi...

I cannot wait to read this!

I am so fucking excited to read this, because I just know that Aditya is gonna deliver so goddamn well as a writer, likely as much as he does as a letterer!

Popping up from the void to say, I'm starting an independent writing workshop! Do have a look, and share with anyone you think might be interested. samit.substack.com/p/writing-wo...

finally penciling pages hehe💚

Not all heros wear capes

In case you missed it, my first book as a writer – a four-issue body horror mini-series set in Bollywood, if that's your jam – was announced. This thread has all the details, and I'll be updating it as we go.

POPVERSE: THE SUBSTANCE meets fandom in IN YOUR SKIN, a new Image Comics series from Tiny Onion

Bollywood Body Horror meets Erotic Fiction this April with In Your Skin #comics #comicbooks

lalah, lalah

I think Aditya and I talked about this then-nascent project the one time we met in person some years ago in Kolkata, so I'm delighted to see it come to fruition.

In Your Skin is a new four-issue miniseries from Image Comics pitched as Bollywood meets The Substance, from Aditya Bidikar and SOM.

Tiny Onion announces brand-new body horror series IN YOUR SKIN

Cooool

I am so hyped for this!

@readtinyonion.bsky.social dropping that heat y’all. I was hype when I saw a tagline of Bollywood body horror and then @adityab.net on writing duties??? 🤯 This looks amazing.

This looks cool as hell

NEW @imagecomics.com @readtinyonion.bsky.social announcement! Feeling so grateful for cooking this with @adityab.net @som @faureiana.bsky.social @eharburn.bsky.social

Allison joins us as an editorial consultant on this book, so you can trust her on this!! 😁

I've known Aditya has had the drive to write something for some time and I've eagerly been awaiting whatever that was. I couldn't be more excited! This book is going to be an absolute stunner, I just know it, and probably give me actual nightmares, which is terribly hard to do tbh. Can't wait!!

Story by Aditya and art by Somnath! Can't wait!

Oh no. Not more cool-looking horror comics. How shall I ever endure? Also, give it to me now!

IN YOUR SKIN caught my eye immediately in the latest solicits from Image Comics. Erotic body horror?! Sign me the hell up. I'm in. Plus, those @mllovet.bsky.social and @tulalotay.bsky.social variant covers are 🔥🔥🔥🔥 This looks absolutely terrific!