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‘Papa was loving but an alcoholic’
Updated On: 26 September, 2021 07:29 AM IST | Mumbai | Prutha Bhosle
A graphic designer’s personal project takes the form of a virtual graphic novel, as he depicts the perils of growing up around a parent living with addiction
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Somesh Kumar, 33, is a graphic designer and illustrator who lives in Bengaluru with his wife, mum and two-year-old daughter Sufi
In September 2018, Somesh Kumar became a father. The Bengaluru-based graphic designer and illustrator dived into being a full-time dad to daughter Sufi, while his wife took on a job at Accenture. Back at home, as he juggled pen, paper and pacifier, Kumar dabbled with the idea of working on a graphic novel.
Little by Little is a long-form comic, which Kumar began as a personal project. It took on a shape of its own, with each passing day, as he dipped into memories from the late ’80s when he was growing up in Bihar.
He was born in a mohalla called Pakari in the small town of Arrah. It was a typical crammed, but tiny Indian town. “All the other houses in the narrow lanes were tightly placed. I grew up in a joint family. Both my grandparents were teachers; we had cows and a dog. Mummy was finishing her education at the time and had almost immediately found a job as a teacher in a central government school. Papa worked with a nationalised bank. While we were well off, my memory of those years is mired by how my elder brother and I were brought up in a crowded place,” recalls Kumar, now 33.
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