Unkoolie

One of the highlights of this week was this evening in Kalikotta Palace. I had always frequented the palace as an audience listening to stalwarts, watching stalwarts and getting inspired and humbled.
This evening I got to be on stage and with my brother @sanidasifali , the legendary creator Mohandas sir, and the infectious and inspirational presence of the famed caricature artist @sajjive sir.
We got to celebrate the 50 years of Mohandas sirs dreamy characters and he was kind enough to live sketch kapeesh and later Mayavi breaking out of the bottle.
We also got to speak about the relevance of independent comix movement and the need for comics. @indycomicscommune had a lot of new followers in the page that day. I got to quote Spiegelman’s. “Comics are the last bastions of literacy”. We spoke about the independent art movement of busking and the works of @buskingkochi and how we need such counter movements of conversations.
Of course we spoke about AI.
After the talk, Sanid and I sold some comics while we busked.
Left back with countless core memories.
Thank you KRAFT’24! You were very kind in reaffirming faith in an extremely anxious artist!
#literaturefestival #busking #indycomixcommune #buskingkochi