The translations keep on coming!

Victor Arguelles has been kind enough to start a Spanish translation of The Abominable Charles Christopher, making the strip even more accessible to people around the world.
All of these translations are done for free by readers who want to share their experience of the comic, and I’m honored by their efforts. Thanks everyone, for being a part of this.

If you’d like to contribute to more translations, let me know, and I’ll give you the font information, banner graphics, etc. that you’ll need to get started.

I love it when my interests cross over. One of my readers, Mike Schramm, asked if I’d do an interview for him and it turns out I already knew his work from the The Unofficial Apple Weblog, which I read every day because I’m a colossal Apple dork.

Anyway, the interview is up on his personal site and has nothing to do with Apple, but everything to do with The Abominable Charles Christopher.

Read, if you dare!

Hi Everyone.

Just dropping a quick note to let you all know that I’m on the road on a motorcycle trip from Montreal to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. The strip will update as usual (I’ve done a couple ahead of time!) but I’m having trouble accessing the site from the road, so if you leave a comment and it doesn’t show up, that’s why. I’ll try to keep on top of it as best I can, though.

Weather’s been great so far, and eastern Canada is beautiful. I’m posting a mini-mobile blog on my page at karlkerschl.com, so you can keep up with me there for now.

See you next week!

-karl

Hi all! I’ve finally completed the arduous task of moving the Abominable site to its own domain. You can now reach the page by going to www.abominable.cc. Get it? CC? Anyway…
Please update your bookmarks, feeds, etc. and let me know if anything is screwy – I’ll do my best to work out the bugs as quickly as possible.

New Feature: Gravatar Support!! The comments section is now a whole lot more fun. You can add your own avatar so we can all see what you look like. Or what you wish you looked like.

See you on the other side!
-karl

The San Diego Convention is almost upon us, and I won’t be there. Last year, the transmission-x crew spent the majority of the show lounging on the beach, but deadlines prevent me from attending this year. Which double-sucks because I won’t be able to attend the Eisner Award ceremony to see if Charles Christopher wins for Best Digital Comic.
But all is not lost! Cameron Stewart will be there to represent us! If you see him at his table, go and say hi. And then ask him for a sketch of Charles Christopher. ;)

Another fan effort, this time from James Reddington. This is awesome, but might give me nightmares. ;)

Keep ‘em coming!

For those of you wondering why my Wednesday updates have been arriving later and later in the day, this is the reason:

Meet Cousteau, our new kitten. He sits directly on top of whatever I happen to be working on. As proof, here he is on top of last week’s episode of Charles Christopher.

I can’t work like this. He’s completely unprofessional.

One of my readers, Tom Pritchard, sent me a ‘thank-you’ in the form of an original song, inspired by Charles Christopher scaling the mountain. It’s called ‘Standing on the Shoulders of Giants’ and you can listen to it here.
I love seeing or hearing my work interpreted by other artists. I’d like to eventually put up a fan art page when I get a chance to showcase these things.

Thanks Tom! I hope your mum is feeling better.

As promised, the second half of this week’s strip has been posted, and we finally have a name to go with the face of the arctic fox. He actually had a name from the second strip I drew him in, but I wanted to let him reveal it in a natural way rather than force it out awkwardly and prematurely. So there you have it. If you don’t like it, you can take it up with his mom.

This week’s strip reminded me of my love of fairy tales and my mind went back to the earliest one I can remember – The Three Billy Goats Gruff. I was terrified by the artwork in the Ladybird edition (pictured here) but I still asked my dad to read it to me over and over and over. I think this book is responsible for a lot of the fantasy/horror sensibilities in my work. I always want to be a little bit frightened by the imagery I’m creating, even if it’s meant to be beautiful.

I still own the book, but if anyone knows where I can buy any of the original paintings (by Robert Lumley, who doesn’t seem to have a web presence) PLEASE let me know! I’ll be forever grateful.

Here’s another horrifying image.