And like the book’s central street writer Suresh Naik, “Grafity”, you did a bit of writing yourself as you came up in the world- though I presume you didn’t use other people’s walls. ‘Grafity’s Wall’ is a series of snapshots that capture life during one summer in Mumbai, where you grew up. Art: Anand Radhakrishnan/Dark Horse Comics about Grafity’s Wall and the considerable artistic impact it’s already made.Ĭover to ‘Grafity’s Wall: Expanded Edition’. With a new expanded edition coming to shops this March (courtesy of Dark Horse Comics) with never-before-seen process pages from letterer Aditya Bidikar and Anand RK, I was given the opportunity to speak once again with writer Ram V. As far as first impressions go, Grafity’s Wall packed a wallop. ( These Savage Shores, Justice League Dark) and artist Anand Radhakrishnan. And a reminder that our tenuous control over our own lives is no reason to give up.įirst released in October 2018 by crowdfunding publisher Unbound, Grafity’s Wall was many comics readers’ first introduction to writer Ram V. More than anything else, Grafity’s Wall is a proclamation of love, of the comics form, of friends, of living. About barbed opportunities that scrape you on your way to the next step in life. It’s about fissures, in friendships, in family, in the future. About one summer in Mumbai, about four young people fighting to find a future in a city that often swallows kids like them whole.

Not long after, something truly incredible: A young artist named Grafity, paint stains on his fingers, approaches the fallen bulding’s last standing wall and finds endless possibilities amid the detritus. Life goes on, as it must, as though people losing their homes is just another Thing That Happens. A story that captures a single moment of social despair: Neighborhood tenement gets torn down, its inhabitants scattered to whatever ends they can find. Grafity’s Wall is a rhapsody, of youth, of art, of movement.

Grafity's Wall by Ram V.