Sunday, October 04, 2026

Follow me...

 Nope, I am not turning into a New Age preacher :-)

This is just an invitation to follow me on Instagram (@diagonal.lane) or Twitter (@diagonallane) if you wish to get an update whenever I post an episode of Diagonal Days (usually Friday or Saturday evening, CET).

Saturday, October 03, 2026

Diagonal Lane - The Story Of

This is the Story of how the Diagonal Lane Comic Strip came to be...

It all started with a comic short story I wrote for a short story competition run by a leading Indian newspaper. It was called The Cock, the Bull and the Dentist.

It was a cock and bull story that unusually also happened to involve a dentist. And the cock in question had pretensions to being a parrot. And the bull happened to be a cow, on alternate days. Nope, it did not win the prize. The prize went to a horribly serious and intellectual story where everyone has a miserable time and dies in the last paragraph. The sort of folk who judge these competitions are very serious people.

Read On...

Diagonal Days - 199


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Diagonal Days - How it Happened

If you are a regular reader of Diagonal Days -- and if you are, here is a special kiss for you 👄 -- then you might be curious to know how this comic strip came to be.

Saturday, September 26, 2026