Before you start sending me hate-mail, let me say in my defense that I played my share of role-playng games in the past, including D&D, Shadowrun, Warhammer and too many Final Fantasies to mention, not to mention the countless hours I sunk into Everquest, WoW and, yes, Star Wars Galaxies. Mostly in dark, depressing basements.
So, y’know, cut me some slack here.
I love the discussion that goes on in the comments section of each strip here, but for longer discussions we’ve set up the TX Forum where we can all hang out, start new conversation threads and get more detailed answers to questions. It’s also a great place to find (or recommend) new comics and get advice!
Join the discussion!
I know you’re already accustomed to coming here on Wednesdays, but I wanted to mention that I have another comic sharing the same release date this week. It’s called ‘Wednesday Comics‘ and it’s a really cool project from DC Comics that’s a throwback to the old Sunday strips from the 1930’s. It’s a 12-issue weekly series and I’m drawing (and co-writing) a page of it each week – a story about The Flash (fastest man alive, FYI).
And there’s an added bonus contest!: I’ve snuck our favourite dim-witted yeti into one of the episodes! I’m not telling you which of the twelve issues he’s in, but email me a picture of yourself holding the page and pointing to him and you’ll be entered into a draw to win an original sketch from me. Send mail to mail@abominable.cc with the subject ‘Wednesday Comics Contest’.
Wednesday Comics launches this Wednesday , so head on over to your local comic shop and let me know what you thought of it!
I’m trekking back to Toronto this weekend for the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, where I’ll be sharing table space with my tx-comics pals. We’ll have freebies to promote our various webcomics, and I’m hauling boxes of Abominable Charles Christopher shirts and prints with me to sell.
This show only happens once every two years, and it’s always full of exciting new books to check out, so stop on by!
Another Charles Christopher strip this week? Not exactly. I was asked by Scott Kurtz to do a guest strip for his webcomic, PvP, which was both an honor and a lot of fun. Not surprisingly, I managed to work some animals into it, so it’s sort of like getting a bonus comic on Friday.
Click the image below for the full strip!
If you’ve been following me on Twitter, you may already know that I’ve decided to attend the New England Webcomics Weekend! I’m excited to meet all of the webcomics folks I didn’t get a chance to meet in New York, and from the looks of it, it’s going to be extremely well-attended.
I’m driving down from Montréal with Cameron Stewart, and we’ll be socializing our way through the weekend. I won’t be bringing anything to show or sell, but please come and say hi if you see me! If you’ve got a sketchbook, I might have time to do some quick Charles Christopher drawings…
More lovely renderings of our hero on the Fan Art page, including this statuesque piece from Andy Checkmark and a slightly more… violent offering from my erstwhile studiomate, young Nicolas Plamondon.
The quality of the art you guys are sending me is outstanding; I’m always delighted and moved by them. Thank you!!
I’m back in Montréal after attending the New York Comic Con this past weekend, and I just wanted to thank everyone who came by the table to see me. Some of you said it was your first convention!
I gave away lots of Abominable stickers, and I tried to do a sketch for every Charles Christopher fan that stopped by. If you received one, send me a scan of it so I can put them up on the blog! I should have taken photos, but it was pretty busy and I am easily overwhelmed. ;)
It was a fantastic time. I got to meet the crew from Applegeeks, Gary Tyrell from Fleen, and I finally got to say hi to Scott Kurtz in person!
Next year, I want to get a bigger booth so I can display more artwork.
It’s the first show of the new year!
I’ll be driving a rental car down from Montréal to attend the New York Comicon from February 6th – 8th! If you’re in or around the area, please come by and say hello. I’ll be doing sketches, selling T-Shirts and prints and giving away stickers.
And probably wandering around a lot. Hey, it’s New York! Even the frigid winter weather can’t keep me from exploring Manhattan.
I’ll also be sharing table space with Cameron Stewart, compatriot and author of Sin Titulo. And if we’re really lucky, Ramón Pérez and Andy Belanger might loiter around long enough to sketch something. That’s half of txcomics right there!
UPDATE: Here’s a map of where I’ll be!
-karl
Time for another round of everyone’s favourite Abominable Q&A (though questions need not be limited to Abominable things). Let’s get started!
Hi everybody! Karl, here. I just wanted to take a moment to welcome all the new readers this week and to thank you all for the glowing praise you’ve been sending me via email. I read them all and I follow all the comments and, believe it or not, a lot of the discussion here affects my approach to the pacing of the story and the tone of the strip. That’s what makes the web such a fantastic medium.
But since I was getting all this mail, I thought I’d start a new blog segment here called ‘Ask Karl’, where I’ll answer some of your questions more directly.
