Of COURSE It’s Thursday
Spent a couple hours running down what appeared to be a virus on my computer before I figured out that somebody had messed with a DNS server upstream, and that’s why trying to browse to google.com (but not www.google.com) was redirecting browsers in my office to a crappy social network with a history of such stunts. So frustrating when people make the active to decision to suck.
- Speaking of sucking, got a rough story to share with you. Indigo Kelleigh does some pretty neat comics, including Ellie Connelly and the pretty awesome 8-bit Tarot deck. Long, unfortunate story short, Kelleigh’s in a financial bind and is liquidating his entire stock of merch at below-cost. Long story slightly longer, it’s in anticipation of bankruptcy. Long story fully told at Kelleigh’s site, which should probably be taken as a companion piece with Brad Guigar’s thoughts on preparing for retirement [subscription required], which doubles as a cushion for financial ups and downs.
- Let’s get to the non-suck, shall we? Kids Read Comics kicks off this weekend in Dearborn, MI, with a stack of guests including webcomics own Raina Telgemeier & Dave Roman, John Green, Krishna Sadasivam, and organized by the people behind the Art & Story podcast. Upper Midwesterners, go check it out.
- Those of you that haven’t ordered Karl Kerschl’s first collection of Abominable Charles Christopher, you’re doing yourselves a disservice. For what was originally designed by Kerschl as an exercise in spontaneous creation (no plotting ahead, no sketching, just sit down on Wednesday and draw whatever popped into his head), there’s a remarkably rich narrative that doesn’t reveal itself easily when going update-by-update.
Sure, you could read the strips online, but there’s been some judicious re-arrangement, leading to stronger story arcs interleaved with one another. My favorite arc, curiously, isn’t about the big guy, or even Vivol and Moon Bear … it’s the story of this bird, trying to be a good husband and father, and not finding it as easy as he’d hoped. Of course, she could do worse.
Second favorite: the bug psychiatrist. He’s awesome. But what’s really awesome is I care about these characters — most of whom don’t even have names that we’ve learned (aside from the irrepressible Sissi Skunk) — because they’re living, breathing, distinct personalities that make themselves known to Kerschl on Wednesdays.
… Kerschl…
… The Abominable Charles Christopher/TACC…
… Gary, I can’t fault you one jot on your description of Karl’s work on TACC, sufficed to say (on personal preference) that the holistic world that Karl is weaving is enriched so much by the inclusion of (yes) said father bird, but also the raccoons…
… a wonderful tapestry – kept, at this present moment, from being more immediately wonderful by current poverty and the annoying need to eat…
… anyone reading this, please do yourselves a favour and hop on over to “The Abominable Charles Christopher”s site to have a look at the video of Karl putting that ‘little extra’ into the inside of an ordered hardback…
… more power to that fellow’s long skinny fingers!
By Nigel-63 on 06.11.10 4:30 am
[…] before the big wrap-up — in this way, it’s almost the opposite of Karl Kerschl’s freeform, improvisatory approach to Charles Christopher, and even if the entire story isn’t constructed at any one time, the whole outline of it is […]
By Fleen: Home Of The Webcomics Action News Team! » Books, Books, Books on 06.11.10 2:00 pm
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