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mahendra.bsky.social
Illustrator and author since the 1980s, ie., hopeless dreamer. Montreal, Earth. https://campsite.bio/mahendra_singh
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this looks so cool, Cervantes + Japanese publications design

the best draftsmen are almost always sculptors

NYC Mayor Eric Adams debuts his new look.

Last night's earworm which tickled the ivories of my brain each time I woke was Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer" — which I was lucky enough to hear Eubie Blake perform live several times during the late '70s. youtu.be/Fxk9qwCFf8s

Holy frig

PM Justin Trudeau 🇨🇦 Went to the hockey game and sat with fellow Canadians. He cheered on Team Canada. He didn’t require any special treatment or to sit in an executive suite. Who is Trudeau? He’s a true Canadian 🇨🇦❤️🍁

Lovely gesture by Carrollian Jon Lindseth, donating his Lewis Carroll collection to the UK. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

When people see the maple leaf, they see possibility. They see freedom. They see a helping hand. They see Canada, and the best of our values. Happy 60th to our flag. 🇨🇦

Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Europe stands with you for a just and lasting peace, with strong security guarantees. We will keep providing continued and stable support to Ukraine. And speed up work on your EU accession. Joint read-out with @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu ↓ europa.eu/!MfPPPC

Hey! SH is doing an Afrosurrealism special issue. I know a lot of my mutuals are interested in this! strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

The good old days, when artists made clients fly straight or else.

🔴CALLING ALL ARTISTS🔴 Christie's NYC is planning an AI art auction expected to bring in over $600,000 to creators who've used models trained on copyrighted material from non-consenting artists. If you object to this, please sign and share this open letter. openletter.earth/cancel-the-c...

#sff #fanfic #poetry

A bunch of years ago, @poetryfoundation.bsky.social asked me to record some poems during AWP conference in Atlanta. One of the poems I chose was Gwendolyn Brooks' "When You Have Forgotten Sunday: The Love Story" from Brooks' 1945 A Street in Bronzeville. www.poetryfoundation.org/audio/76414/...

Read the whole thread, you won't be sorry. These Brit literary wallahs are in condition tonight!

The Straight and Narrow Road by Jacques Prévert At each mile each year old men with closed faces point out the road to children with gestures of reinforced concrete

Tariffs or no tariffs — Buy Canadian anyway #BuyCanadian

For the late crowd, my story The Flaming Embusen is up at Uncanny Magazine. Available in text and audio. Free to read and listen.

"[what direction will you take when the universe collapses: you who when you go must go someplace]" from my first book, Tea, 1998

GIGO

Monteverdi and Modernism, they're keeping the lunacy outside my studio at bay, for today at least. #WIP #graphicnovel #TheWasteLand #TSEliot #bookpub

Thanks, @bigbeardedbookseller.com for the boost. Books, and everything about them, that's my happy place.

Opium is the religion of the masses. #firesigntheatre #penandink #freelanceillustrator #bookpub #duotone #pubnews #illustrationandconcept #HighGothic

51, eh?

Masterpieces of Robotlit: 'Cien Años de Solenoid'.

I recently completed my collection of Adam Roberts' science fiction novels. In this video, I take a spin through them all. Which is your favourite? Or which do you like the sound of? 🪐📚 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube youtu.be/wnuj3cgbDyQ

From our collection: one of sixteen illustrations by Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social for Forrest Leo’s “The Gentleman: A Novel” (Penguin Press, 2016). Mahendra is an editor, comics creator, illustrator of “The Hunting of the Snark” and numerous other books, and author of “American Candide.”

Hugo award winning illustrator, Ron Miller, is on Bluesky!