Urban Comics, a subsidiary of Dargaud created in 2011, specializes in the publication of comic books published in the United States by DC Comics, one of the largest comic book publishing houses, a subsidiary of WarnerMedia. Initially dedicated to thrillers, DC Comics now targets an audience of sassy teenagers and regressive adults, which makes the world.
Grafity’s Wall is published by Urban Comics in the Urban Indies collection. Everything takes place in Bombay (Mumbai), birthplace of the prolific multi-award-winning screenwriter Ram V and the prodigy designer Anand RK. The whole story is based on the friendship of three crazy young boys. Suresh aka Grafity is a street artist genius. Reincarnation of the author, while waiting to become famous, he is arrested in the act of tagging by a corruptible police commissioner and corrupted by the money of Jay, the second of the trio, a small dealer under the control of Mario, the local kingpin for which he delivers coke to luxury hotels. It is then his turn to get squeezed, and to get out of it thanks to his protector, that bastard Mario.
At the insistence of his grandmother, Jay applies for a serious job: washing cars. Just had to cross the street. Only then, the boss pays so badly that Jay still prefers to go back to dealing. Witness to the debacle of his two buddies, Chasma, the poet of the gang, fat binoculars fat belly and virgin, still writing what will probably become the story we are following, is in love with Saira , too beautiful for him, a singer who hasn’t broken through yet, also under Mario’s thumb, whose mistress she could become, if she really wanted to break into singing.
Around these stereotypes, Anand RK redoubles his ingenuity to make people forget the predictability of the Ram V scenario. half in slums, the other half in poverty. If you want to see to what extremities the human species can be reduced, Bombay is the place to take your selfies this summer.
The same refusal of the stinginess of the bosses
The resemblance is striking between these young Indians and young Westerners. As if, from one hemisphere to another, it was the same humiliations, the same refusal of the stinginess of the bosses.
About bosses, I spotted one, in need of competent personnel, who publishes on his company’s website an internship offer that I thought of sending to my young godchild. “Join our marketing team”, says the advertisement, before describing the intern’s missions: to create, federate and animate a community on social networks, research and create content, ensure the loyalty of Internet users, send work in progress or SPs to influencers, create graphics, banners, ads, etc., create content for the newsletter.
To carry out this impossible mission, the boss requires essential skills from the recipient such as good spelling, knowledge of good natural referencing practices, he will have to take quality shots and adapt them to the constraints of the Web, analyze and synthesize them. In addition, he must be curious by nature, endowed (sic) with an excellent capacity for adaptation, and master the technical settings on the various social networks. Finally, he will be asked for notions of HTML, a mastery of software such as Photoshop, Hootsuite, Pack Office, and must be able to speak, write and read English.
I was nevertheless surprised by the monthly remuneration, for a period of six months, envisaged for a job requiring so many skills, and wrongly qualified as an internship: 800 euros. But I was completely reassured when I discovered the name of the company: Urban Comics.