Translating Time Cheetah

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Growing up in Tijuana, Mexico, I've watched movies in English with Spanish subtitles my whole life. We actually did get a lot of concurrent Spanish dubbed releases but their quality varied wildly. However, I also know a good dub can make all the difference (Just ask any Mexican about Dragon Ball Z). So when the Time Cheetah Kickstarter began, I knew I wanted to offer a good Spanish language PDF of Stalin Island. 

Fun fact: translation is hard.

I've been bilingual since birth and I originally wrote the damn thing, so I have plenty of advantages, but even then there's a bunch of unforeseen challenges. Like, check it out:

-Spanish, in general, uses more syllables to say the same thing than English. So unless you want all of your word balloons to be 20% bigger and cover more of your beautiful art, you gotta go in there and do some cutting. Bye bye adjetives!

-Rodriguez is the worst. Why? He loves puns, wordplay, and antiquated idioms. 'Better dead than red' in Spanish sounds dumb and there isn't an equally satisfying replacement. Gotta come up with a new joke.

- 'Rawr!' becomes '¡Rawr!'

But enough of that, you came here for your dose of Time Cheetah! Good thing we got a sweet new page for ya. CHECK IT OUT!

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WE'RE BACK!

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Hey. Guess what?

Time Cheetah's back, baby! Did we ever really leave, you might ask yourself... the answer is maybe. We took a nap. A long nap. But the purpose of the nap? To regain our strength and return better than ever!

It's been a little over a month since we wrapped our Time Cheetah Kickstarter, and we've been working on getting our first story, “The Secret of Stalin Island,” into book form. Along with that, we've been preparing T-shirts, postcards, sketches and many other rewards. But just 'cause we're hard at work on fulfilling our Kickstarter doesn't mean Time Cheetah wasn't already waiting in the wings to make a comeback.

And so we begin the next Time Cheetah story, entitled “Ford's Fortune”! After his successful mission stopping Colonel Bolshevik, Time Cheetah's about to embark on an adventure even more ridiculous than the last. The only thing I'll spoil about this story: there's gonna be a lot more cursing. Like, an unnecessary amount of cursing. Not by Cheetah, though. He's still just gonna say RAWR. I guess that sorta counts as a second spoiler... shit.

You know the drill: we update twice a week, Tuesdays and Thursdays, and write a nice little companion post like so. Two part story, 26 pages each. Awesome art with terrible jokes. Time Cheetah will be in it. Share us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, and tumbl us on tumblr. PS we love you.

Alright, did you even read this far? What are you doing? There's a new Time Cheetah page to read, so go read it!

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Ford's Fortune Coming Soon!

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Hello everyone! We've been quiet for a hot minute since our Kickstarter ended with it's amazing success (273 Backers and $9,435 pledged! #humblebrag) and more updates on it will come soon. But we wanted to et you know that we're coming back in full force next Tuesday:

Time Cheetah's newest adventure, FORD'S FORTUNE will start on Apirl 4th! 

Another 56 pages of awesome comedy action? You betcha, check back every Tuesday and Thursday starting next week for that day's page. But for now, check out our sweet cover and wonder how you lived before you had Time Cheetah in your life.

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Miami Price or How It All Started

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Goodness, we've been so caught up with our Time Cheetah Kickstarter, we haven't really brought people's attention to another important thing: we're releasing a new Time Cheetah story! We started the story concurrently with the Kickstarter, and it runs through the end of the campaign. It's an 8-page story called “Miami Price,” where Time Cheetah and Rodriguez chase down an infamous drug dealer and take on his insane bodyguard... the Cocaine Samurai!

“Miami Price” is actually the FIRST Time Cheetah story ever drawn. Back in 2014, when my brother and I first met Matt and Mike Cossin, we wanted to get a feel for how they'd approach the material without having to commit them to a long script. So we dove in and wrote a bonkers 8-page story that would show off all the coolest things about Time Cheetah (action, comedy, 80's references, terrible puns) and allow Matt and Mike Cossin plenty of space to make the material their own.

The end result? I mean, we couldn't wait for them to start on more! I don't want to spoil anything yet, but Time Cheetah and Rodriguez's confrontation with the Cocaine Samurai will go down as one of my favorite things about our webcomic. Matt and Mike went right into “The Secret of Stalin Island” after this was done—and the rest is history!

So enjoy “Miami Price” this month... or you can always wait and read it when we collect it—along with “The Secret of Stalin Island”—in the Time Cheetah printed book!

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