Wednesday — July 1st, 2009
This ends Chapter One of The Abominable Charles Christopher.
I’m going to do something I feel a bit guilty about now, which is to take some time off. It’ll only be for a month, and that month will be put to good use as I prepare myself for the next story arc and do the layout of the first book collection (you’ll be hearing more about this very soon).
In the meantime, though, the Abominable site marches on! I have some incredible talent lined up to provide guest strips for you, and I’m really excited about them, so tune in every Wednesday, as usual, for more Abominable shenanigans.
I’ll be back before you know it.
-karl
UPDATE: I’ve added wallpaper of this week’s strip, as requested!
June 30th, 2009
I know I haven’t been blogging much outside of the weekly comic updates, but I’ve had my nose to the grindstone with work.
So first, I’d like to address the ‘donations‘ button over on the right. I’ve received some emails and comments asking about ways to support The Abominable Charles Christopher and I decided to offer this option in response. The comic is free and it will always be free. It is not ad-supported and I’d like to keep it that way. If you’d like to donate some money to help out, Townsen will take you to a Paypal page where you can enter the amount of your choice, and I’ll give you a big hug should we ever meet.
Secondly, I’ve been sitting on a couple of wonderful pieces of fan art that I haven’t had time to scan/upload. The first is a lovely digital painting by Chutkat and the second is an extremely cute Moon Bear drawing by Yuko Ota, which she gave to me at TCAF. Thanks to both of you and sorry it took me so long to post them!
May 7th, 2009
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!
April 17th, 2009
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!
March 18th, 2009
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…
March 5th, 2009
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!!
February 10th, 2009
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.
January 15th, 2009
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
December 18th, 2008
Time for another round of everyone’s favourite Abominable Q&A (though questions need not be limited to Abominable things). Let’s get started!
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November 14th, 2008
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.
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October 27th, 2008
Hi everyone! Just wanted to point you in the direction of another interview I did with Dave Kellett for the newly-relaunched Webcomics.com.
In it, we discuss the creation of The Abominable Charles Christopher, my work process, and some of my thoughts on making comics for the web as opposed to print.
Go Read!
