“So many kids wanna be artists - they wanna make comics. How powerful is it for me to say that whatever you imagine and whatever you want to pursue, you can do that?”
Nidhi Chanani an Indian-American freelance illustrator, cartoonist and writer. Nidhi’s debut graphic novel Pashmina won ALL the awards, but her diverse body of work - from Jukebox, Binny’s Diwali, the Shark Princess series (a personal favorite of Raman’s daughter), and October’s forthcoming of Super Boba Café - will not just just blow you away, but also move you. Basically if you’ve got a kid or are a kid at heart, you should be reading Nidhi’s work. Nidhi’s story is almost as amazing as her take on work and life, we’ve become fans of not just her work - but her approach to community. She’s such a nerd about storytelling and art - and her place in it - and you’ll definitely get the vibe from this chat that you're hearing old friends talk for the first time.
LEARN ABOUT
- Nidhi: everydayloveart.com
- instagram.com/nidhiart
- Pashmina (2017): https://www.goodreads.com/fa/book/show/33163360
- Jukebox (2021: goodreads.com/book/show/54017835-jukebox
- Super Boba Cafe (2023): abramsbooks.com/product/super-boba-caf-book-1_9781419759567/
MENTIONS
- WORD: “Hapa” - wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapa
- BOOK: Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri) - goodreads.com/book/show/486323
- AUTHOR: Jhumpa Lahiri
- BOOK: Bastard Out Of Carolina (Dorothy Allison) - goodreads.com/en/book/show/25354
- BOOK: A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (George Saunders) - goodreads.com/book/show/53487237-a-swim-in-a-pond-in-the-rain
- INDIAN COMICS: Amar Chitra Katha - wikipedia.org/wiki/Amar_Chitra_Katha
- COMIC: American Born Chinese (Gene Luen Yang) - goodreads.com/en/book/show/118944
- BOOK: Neverwhere (Neil Gaiman) - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54236146-neverwhere
- SONG: Lizzo, “Special” - youtu.be/geZQoa4CPlk
- PERSON: Janelle Monáe - wikipedia.org/wiki/Janelle_Mon%C3%A1e
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