Off Panel #544: In Your Skin with Aditya Bidikar

About this episode

Aditya Bidikar discusses his first major comics writing project, In Your Skin, and the various aspects of its creation and collaboration.

Writer/letterer Aditya Bidikar joins the show to talk about his first major comics writing project, In Your Skin at Image Comics. Bidikar discusses his feeling about tackling that new project, putting yourself out there, the evolution of In Your Skin, the parasocial side of the project, the importance of character, how the book's artist Som signed up for the book, how that collaboration changed the project, lettering and writing, the behind the scenes work on the book, Tiny Onion's impact, whether he wants to keep writing, his lettering workload, finding the right mix, challenging yourself, and more.

People in this episode

Host: SKTCHD

Guest: Aditya Bidikar

Topics covered

• comics writing
• collaboration
• character development
• lettering
• parasocial relationships
• creative process

Keywords

• Aditya Bidikar
• In Your Skin
• Image Comics
• comics writing
• lettering
• character
• collaboration
• Tiny Onion

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Image Comics, Tiny Onion

Books & works: In Your Skin

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