This was alright there were some good points to it. I really liked the use of color and the pacing of it. I think the use of the four different character's was both helpful and hurtful. It was helpful in that there were all these different views of the city and what the best way to move above it were (in terms of trying to get out of the slum). It was hurtful in that I never really felt like I could get to any of the character's deeply, they all turned into ideas at the end. This was further dev...

A snapshot in the lives of 4 young people struggling to make it in Mumbai. I'd say it's a look into a culture we don't see much of in the U.S. but this wasn't much different than a story here about kids growing up in the slums. I didn't care for the art at all. It was way too busy with inconsistent faces and poor coloring.Received a review copy from Dark Horse and Edelweiss. All thoughts are my own and in no way influenced by the aforementioned.

Loved this! A vibrant, poignant exploration of life in Mumbai as told by a graffiti artist. The ending was just perfection!

I had a higher rating for this before, but I can not remember the story well.. and I read it recently. so I guess it did not really leave a big impression on me, but it was worth reading

Back before the gorgeous, divisive jazz fantasy Blue In Green, Ram V and Anand RK collaborated on this very different graphic novel, a much more grounded coming of age piece following kids growing up in a poor district of Mumbai, hanging out at the wall of the title which – as the name suggests – is the canvas for the member of the group who dreams of being an artist. The others have similar hopes – acting, writing, rapping – but in the meantime they're squeezed between their families telling th...

four children in mumbai are united by conditions at a broken-down wall - one that will end up being a canvas for the image of their lives in a spot that both moves and persecutes, unpredictably, and in equivalent measure. this is an exemplary curve of a story about growing up. i perceive these inclinations, through my time was spent wearing an old band shirt while working in a nearby studio as opposed to attempting to abstain from being pounding by my aggressive father. this is extremely human a...

I enjoyed the art, unusual as it is. Chasma's story was my favorite. Saira's was a little disappointing and didn't actually have a lot to do with her inner life.A lot of local phrases thrown in but without an asterisk/footnote I skimmed those parts. They were probably just curses.

An explosion of colors will invest you as you pace through this story based in Mumbai. The writing is clever, genuine and soulful. As a personal taste, I didn’t “love” the style of the drawings, in particular the people, but then I am very particular about people’s faces in comics: if the same character is drawn 3 times with 3 different noses in the same page, (like it happens in this book) that spoils a lot of the beauty for me. Still giving the book 4 stars because it’s a real masterwork and c...

I'm not a frequent graphic novel reader, and I don't have the critical equipment to make useful comments about this book, but my daughter edited it, and was instrumental in its existence. The story is well done, and the atmosphere is good: it's over twenty years since I spent time in Mumbai, but I can feel the place in the artwork.

Graphic novel group book for November 2021.Oddly mixed feelings on all aspects of this graphic novel. Four stories of four young people clinging to the underside of Mumbai, four stories about how they are kicked around and struggle to find a place.Everything about it landed inconsistently for me. One kid is a drug dealer and I found his story so generic that it could have taken in any deprived area of any city. But the kid from Manipur's story managed to be vividly evocative of both Mumbai itsel...

After being impressed by the Image comic Blue in Green by Ram V and Anand RK, I wanted to read from these creators, who made their breakout collaboration with the 2018 title, Grafity’s Wall, now published as a hardcover expanded edition by Dark Horse. Set within the slums of Mumbai, the story centres on four kids, each with their own goals and desires, but can they break away from the harsh reality of family tradition, police corruption and street crime, and achieve their better tomorrow?Split i...

I thought this was pretty good. It’s four interconnected stories about friends living in Mumbai, mostly hanging out on the streets. One is a graffiti artist, another a drug runner, the third an introverted writer. This is coming-of-age book then, a look at people in a specific environment arriving at decisions about what to do with their lives. There are many stories similar to this, but I found it well-written with a handful of good lines. The art, while ugly at first glance, has a grittiness a...

This was a well crafted narrative that had characters whose stories you can recognize in your own, if you've ever dreamed from an impossible place. The art style in the book is kinetic which allows the chaos of Mumbai to come alive off the pages while having an urban Moebius tinged style. I highly recommend reading this book

It finally arrived! I'm really proud to have supported Ram V, Amand RK and Aditya Bidkar's Grafity's Wall via Unbound. It's a coming of age graphic novel set in the backdrop of Mumbai's street culture, following the lives of four friends. All of whom I loved, there was something about Chasma that I adored. The artwork was excellent, hopefully I can get my hands on a print! I can't wait for you all to read it from 15th November.

The art is expressive and lively, the colours sumptuous and the lettering absolutely gorgeous - and they all play into making this tale of friendship and creativity in Mumbai something special. Slice of life, but interjected with insights into why people make art, how they try and connect with one another, it's a special book.

This was a beautiful little book. Four chapters describe the lives of four friends in Mumbai. Each one dreams of a future in a city that is both extraordinarily vibrant and inexorable. Author Ram V and artist Anand R K really capture life in this city, the good and the bad, through a series of interconnected slice-of-life moments that feel genuine and heartfelt. The art is atmospheric and beautiful and interesting.

Just read this book once, trust me, it's gonna blow ur mind.Definitely in my favorites list after Daytripper.Detailed Non Spoiler review:-1. Three characters, three different lives, three different paths, one single wall & a similar destination.This is what this graphic novel is all about.2. Story set in the classic "slum livelihood" of the Indian city of Mumbai.3. Very much relatable with current Indian teens.4. Illustration is not so good, but the story itself will make you forget about the ar...

Despite being set in India, this is a fairly bland coming-of-age tale about a group of four friends who all want to spend their lives being creative -- an artist, a rapper, a writer, and an actress -- as they scrabble each day for money to live and the chance for that big breakthrough moment. Two of them are involved with a drug dealer, so some violence and theft are inevitable but do little to make the story less dull.

Crackling with late-evening heat and buoyant from the scent of vegetarian Manchurian, the India-style Japanese restaurant, with its sepia-toned floors and stuffy seating that crowds the edges, fills the lungs of Mumbai with as many sounds, smells, and garish predilections for class bias as anywhere else. "They're nowhere people," a young waiter and future poet says of its denizens. "And so, they're everywhere people. Maybe one day, I'll know what it's like to feel that way."A middle-aged man tea...

Such an authentic-feeling, emotionally compelling story set on the poorer fringes of Mumbai. Each of the four young dreamers in the friend group it follows are interesting, but I especially loved the stories of Chasma the aspiring writer waiting tables to pay for classes and Jay the aspiring MC who’s running for a dealer in the meantime. Mumbai itself is a great character too, with its inequality and the constant hustle it demands of anyone hoping to grab onto a rare opportunity to make their dr...