South Indian indie publishing house. Tamil pulp fiction, Urdu detective novels, & Nigerian soyayya in translation. Comics. Ladies with monster boyfriends. More.
https://blaft.com
Add-on books available through the Kumari Loves a Monster Kickstarter campaign include:
The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction (covers by Shyam)
Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India (includes illustrations by Shyam and Rashmi)
Bandigoat: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales (includes a story by Rashmi, "The Legend of Rani Grace")
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blaft/kumari-loves-a-monster/posts
We're one top-tier backer away from reaching our target!
C'mon folks, you know you want the custom Shyam portrait+monster painting
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blaft/kumari-loves-a-monster
The Kumari Loves a Monster reprint drive has 12 days to reach the finish! Reserve your copy now!
You can also pledge for a custom artwork depicting yourself (or a friend) enjoying a date with a monster lover!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blaft/kumari-loves-a-monster
@matratype Not to detract from the main book but the zine is so good. The quality of the paper, image reproduction, and format is exactly right. Obviously I have to get all the others now. (Edit: checked the stock 😅)
The Kumari Loves a Monster reprint drive has 12 days to reach the finish! Reserve your copy now!
You can also pledge for a custom artwork depicting yourself (or a friend) enjoying a date with a monster lover!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blaft/kumari-loves-a-monster
@joostmarcellis Razorpay's just our payment gateway, should work with a debit card. Where are you? I can calculate shipping & you can Paypal too if that helps
@joostmarcellis You can check if our India price + shipping rate works out better: https://www.blaft.com/products/india-street-lettering
INDIA STREET LETTERING if you're into typography and design
THE SEEKERS if you're into ancient landscapes and philosophical quests
BANDIGOAT if you're into demonic street dogs
A COMPENDIUM OF LESSER SEXY OWL GODS if you're into steamy strigine demiurges
UK customers -- you can now purchase @matratype.bsky.social's INDIA STREET LETTERING at the Better Letters Magazine shop!
Yesterday the postman brought me this treat of a new book by @matratype and @blaft. Stock has also arrived in my online shop.
‘India Street Lettering: A Journey Through Typographic Craft & Culture’ is now ready for orders and you can read all about it here:
https://shop.bl.ag/products/india-street-lettering
Congratulations Pooja on a fabulous publication; it is quite an incredible book!
#Signs #SignPainting #Lettering #GraphicDesign #India #Typography #Type #Craft #Culture
UK customers -- you can now purchase @matratype.bsky.social's INDIA STREET LETTERING at the Better Letters Magazine shop!
UK customers -- you can now purchase @matratype.bsky.social's INDIA STREET LETTERING at the Better Letters Magazine shop!
OK, we'd goofed up while configuring Kickstarter, and it was impossible to donate a copy to the @freelibsnet.bsky.social while still ordering one for yourself.
I believe we've got that fixed now! So donate away!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blaft/kumari-loves-a-monster
Read the Caravan article on Pooja's India Street Lettering project
https://caravanmagazine.in/arts/sign-makers-create-enduring-language-of-indian-streets
Then buy your copy!
Goodreads reviews of KUMARI LOVES A MONSTER:
"completely bizarre and completely, completely charming"
"these illustrations were LIT"
"bizarrely beautiful"
"sure wish I could find a man with 4+ arms to teach me karate and shapes"
BACK OUR REPRINT DRIVE!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blaft/kumari-loves-a-monster
When you pledge to our KUMARI LOVES A MONSTER Kickstarter reprint drive, you can donate a copy to THE FREE LIBRARIES NETWORK, a fantastic initiative serving communities across India.
Kids need third spaces... and books about wholesome consensual monsterlove!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blaft/kumari-loves-a-monster
When you pledge to our KUMARI LOVES A MONSTER Kickstarter reprint drive, you can donate a copy to THE FREE LIBRARIES NETWORK, a fantastic initiative serving communities across India.
Kids need third spaces... and books about wholesome consensual monsterlove!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blaft/kumari-loves-a-monster
The "In Translation" Storybundle contains 12 ebooks in translation, from languages as diverse as Thai, Tamil, Hausa, Shona, isiZulu and Anishinaabemowin!
Donations over $25 get you the whole set! Supports Global Voices Dot Org
We're 50% of the way to our goal on our reprint drive for KUMARI LOVES A MONSTER, a picture book about South Indian women who are head-over-heels in love with hideous, toothy, and tentacled things. By Rashmi Ruth Devadasan and Shyam.
Select add-ons like Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India, The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF, or a Kumari Loves a Monster jigsaw puzzle
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blaft/kumari-loves-a-monster
We're doing a reprint drive for KUMARI LOVES A MONSTER
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blaft/kumari-loves-a-monster
