By Sara Jewell Shivana Sookdeo is a comic artist and designer at Scholastic. She is known for simple, eye-catching visuals paired with thoughtful, quietly dense narratives. Her range is broad and multidisciplinary. Her work has been featured in the Eisner and Ignatz-winning Elements: Fire, Sweaty Palms vol. 2, and Dirty Diamonds 7. She is currently working on a graphic novel, as well as […]
NYCC ‘18: The South Asian Voices in Comics Panel
By Sara L. Jewell On Thursday afternoon at the Javitz Center, attendees lined up to hear from a preeminent panel of South Asian creators working in comics. Moderated by Preeti Chhibber of the Desi Geek Girls podcast, panellists Shivana Sookdeo (Elements: Fire), Fahmida Azim (Emanata), Priya Huq (Mana), Ananth Hirsh (Johnny Wander), Veronica Agarwal (Elements: Fire) and Nidhi Chanani (Pashmina) frankly discussed their approaches to creating honest and authentic representations […]