Strange stories with
Magic and Humor
Outside my career in project management for complex tech pipelines, I am a storyteller in the film and comic book mediums.
I want you to know me as a wildly passionate artist, and I want you to see the things I'm making for you. My work is based around the universal aches and anxieties of being alive, told through the lens of fantasy. A lot of it also derives from the collective identity and National Myth of Pakistanis, without the bias of its belief systems, because I don't believe in them.
My mission is to find the right words for the strange new things we feel in the modern era, and to comfort people by making them feel seen. And, I really want to make you laugh. It's my favorite thing.
Hi I'm Komal.
A Project Manager and a daydreamy creative.
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I spend a lot of time thinking about the things I'm going to make, and why. I root a lot of it in the bizarre experience of growing up in a country like Pakistan, with a half liberal, half conservative family. My selfhood and beliefs have been shattered over and over. I sometimes feel like there must be a lot of people like me back home, and everywhere, just grappling with what they're supposed to do with life- and I can't answer that, but I can search with you.
Because under all our outdated beliefs, was the promise of happiness. That you're going to grow up and feel good. And that's just not always true, or always possible.
The world changes too fast now for the out-of-date absolutisms you were taught. Any good kid who believed in the system/religion/capitalism/etc is always questioning how they got here, cobbling things together from scratch.
So the stories I write, films I make, and comics I draw are kind of a processing tool for all that. I want to use them to make you feel comforted. I want to tell you I see you, I feel just like you, I want you to feel better, I want you to feel good.
I don't know if I can make/write things that will be able to do that. But if you allow me to attempt, enter your email below and I will send you my weekly blog.
PROJECTS
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