So I spent a lot of time reading comics and drawing." "It was strange to tell people you were living in a motel and do you want to come over and play with the drug addicts and prostitutes. "I didn't have a lot of friends," says Patel. His parents ran a run-down motel off Route 66 in San Bernardino, frequented by questionable characters. I thought it was just their version of gesundheit." Isolated as a child "I'd sneeze, and my parents would say Sita Ram. It took 25 years for Patel to rediscover his own culture. That prince, banished from his kingdom, spent 14 years in exile with his wife, Sita, and brother Lakshman. Patel's journey to the heart of the "Ramayana" is longer than Prince Rama's own journey. Draft copies have little yellow Post-it notes with instructions like "Return to green."
He has boxes filled with intricate sketches. Patel drew that tail-on-fire scene for two days straight and worked for a week to perfect it. It ends as thousands of vector points in Adobe Illustrator. The monkey god streaks across a sooty chocolate sky, his tail on fire, setting the demon king's palace ablaze in a bonfire of orange and yellow. The jovial king of bears is all half circles. In Patel's "Ramayana," the evil demons are composed of hard-edged triangles. "The way J-pop's taken over America, I-pop (Indo-pop) could too." "Its bright, flat colors remind me of J-pop (Japanese pop)," says Vij. " 'Loophole' is recognizably Indian and American but is also extremely original." Think Indian history meets Adult Swim. "The art is divine, pardon the pun," quips Manish Vij, who runs the blog. "Ramayana: Divine Loophole" gives the venerable Hindu epic a 21st century makeover. "It was begging to be illustrated." A mix of culturesįor four years Patel did just that. And it was all action as well," says Patel. "There was a 10-headed demon king, characters that were half monkey, half human, gods, kings and queens.
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