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Comeliness VS. Charisma

karl — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:47:55 +0000

I’m ashamed to say that most of my adolescent RPG experiences ended up this way.
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Temporary Abominable Site

karl — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:05:56 +0000

Welcome! It’s very likely that you’ve been redirected here from abominable.cc, the usual home of my webcomic ‘The Abominable Charles Christopher‘.
Recently, the servers that abominable.cc was hosted on were subject to a malicious hack which wiped out all of the sites hosted there, as well as everything on all of the associated drives. It was bad. I have backups of all of the comics content, of course, but it’s going to take some time to rebuild everything so until that happens I’ll be posting comics every Wednesday, same as always, to this site as well as to to the Abominable Facebook page.
The Abominable Store is also down but will be back up in due time. If you’ve placed orders for stuff already then don’t worry; it’s all recorded and in my spreadsheet and orders are being shipped out regularly.
Last week’s strip is posted below, so make yourselves at home, feel free to comment as usual, and I’ll keep you updated on any site news.
Thanks!
-karl

The Cedar Forest Players Present – Raiders of the Lost Ark

karl — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 23:20:09 +0000

The official Abominable Charles Christopher site is down due to server issues, so I’ll be posting stuff here and on Facebook until things get sorted out.
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Comic-Con!

karl — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 15:00:15 +0000

Guess who’s going to the San Diego Comic-Con!!
The SDCC folks were nice enough to invite me and give me an hour of panel time, which I will be using to do this :

Thursday, 11:30-12:30 Spotlight on Karl Kerschl (Live-Drawing The Abominable Charles Christopher)— Comic-Con special guest Karl Kerschl (The Abominable Charles Christopher, Teen Titans: Year One, Assassin’s Creed) creates a new episode of his Eisner Award-winning webcomic The Abominable Charles Christopher live on stage, with help from the audience. Room 4

So for those of you who enjoy the live streams I occasionally do, or for those of you who would like to see how the strip is made, from top to bottom, this one’s for you. The strip will be projected on the big screen and I’ll be talking and answering questions from the audience while I draw. And we’re gonna’ make this thing together! So show up with a favourite animal and some ideas to pitch, because I’m going there empty-handed! The comic we create will go online the following Wednesday.

PSSST: I’ll also give you a sneak-peek at the new comics I’m working on.

AND I have a table in Artist’s Alley (Table II 09) where I’ll be selling Abominable books and doing sketches. Here is a map:

If you’re one of the two million people attending the show this year, come by and say hello! I’m not keeping a sketch list, so it’s first-come-first-serve.

Abominable Softcover

karl — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:22:32 +0000

At long last, the softcover edition of The Abominable Charles Christopher – Book One is here, reprinting the first chapter of the Eisner Award-winning story and wrapped in shiny new cover art!
Sketch Editions are limited to 50 because, well, they take a long time to do and I want to make sure that everyone gets their books in time for Christmas.

And to go along with the new book, a brand new T-shirt!

These items are PRE-ORDERS and will begin shipping on November 11, in plenty of time for Christmas delivery.

Saint’s Row

karl — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:14:49 +0000

This is a piece I did for THQ ‘s upcoming game ‘Saint’s Row: The Third‘. It features the Morningstar gang. I have no idea what it’s being used for, but it’s out in the wild now so I figured it was fair game to post it here. I tried some new things with this piece in terms of drawing tools, palette, style, etc, and it was a lot of fun. Can’t wait to see the game!
And here’s a fun minigame for you: see if you can figure out which famous people each of the characters are modelled after…

Teen Titans Year Two

karl — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:48:29 +0000

Not really. But when I was asked to do a pin-up for Teen Titans #100 (the last issue before the big relaunch) I thought it might be fun to pretend that Amy Wolfram and I were asked to do a sequel to Year One. This is what it might have looked like. An ode to my favourite era of the Teen Titans: the Wolfman/Perez cast.
Well, some of them, anyway. :)

Legion

karl — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:44:48 +0000

And here’s a Legion of Superheroes cover I did for DCs big relaunch…

More Superboy

karl — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:41:34 +0000

Superboy covers 10 and 11. I think these both ship in the same month and they mark the end of this Superboy run and, as a result, my run as cover artist of this series. Five issues! Oh well. It was fun while it lasted.
Big thanks to Rafael Albuquerque, whose cover (for issue 1 of this series) I swiped for issue 11. Being the last issue, the editors wanted to hearken back (way, way back) to the first issue to show that Superboy was no longer alone in Smallville; that he had formed a small family unit now with his pals Simon and Lori. So I took their notes very literally and (with Rafael’s blessing) just pulled the camera back from his original composition to show the gang together. I redrew Rafael’s Superboy to match the styles a bit. And added Krypto, of course. I tried to pitch a Krypto-centic cover a couple of times, but it never quite worked out.
That’s that! Hope you enjoyed these!

Reboot

karl — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 18:15:25 +0000

While ‘The Abominable Charles Christopher‘ is dear to my heart, it is unfortunately not reaching a wide enough readership to sustain its continued production. Not in its current incarnation, at least!
I present to you a bold new direction. I call it ‘ABOMINABLE X-TREME’ and it will change forever the way you think about woodland creatures or integrity!
Gone are the boring conversations! Gone are the insufferable antics! Prepare for a whole new world of pain as CHARLES X-TOPHER fights his way through hordes of wolves, bats and killer spiders, all in the name of ACTION!
ABOMINABLE X-TREME starts NEXT WEDNESDAY and will cost 99 cents, less than a dollar more than it costs now!
It’s not just ABOMINABLE, it’s EXXXXXXTREEEEEEEME!!!

rated M for Mayhem