About 3 days back, I got an email from Maritza Campos, creator of CRFH and a good friend to invite me to collaborate with her on a guest strip for PVP. Said strip was published by Scott today, and I’m fearing for the life of my server! The visit count is massive! It’s barely 7 am here, and this site has received more visits than every previous day. We’re getting visitors from all over the world and I’m happy as hell. -This is why I’m writing this in english.
To those of you are visiting here for the first time, welcome. I’m sorry the entire site is in spanish, I know you can`t read it right now, but I’m taking steps to remedy that very soon. For the moment, you can see the pretty pictures at the links above, and I hope you’ll come back soon, when I have an english version.
I should say, that back in 2008 when I first played with the idea of doing a webcomic, after nearly 20 years of working on the ‘serious’ side of the comicbook business, I became a fan first of the podcast ‘webcomics weekly’, Where Señores Kurtz, Guigar, Kellet and Straub explained the ins and outs of the webcomic business model. It was eye-opening to say the least. I’ve put to the test most of the concepts, ideas and experiences they explained on that podcast (and later the book).
Funnily enough I was first a fan of the podcast, and later became a fan of their strips. Specially PVP, to my tastes the better drawn.
I’m doubly grateful to Scott first for the inspiration to start doing webcomics, then to Maritza for proving that even from a country like Mexico, it is possible to make a living doing comics.
This is such a rush!
I hope you like the strip.
Estaba leyendo mi dotacionn de webcomics diaria antes de ir a la office y surpresa bachan esta en PVP!!!!
Felicidades Bachan PVP es una de los webcomics más importantes del mundo y es super genial que hayas hecho una tira para scott, creo que los unicos mexicanos que han hecho una tira para pvp han sido maritza y adrian ramos
ps.- cuida tu ancho de banda no se te vaya a caer el sitio
Cuida tu server para que no se te caiga con tanta visita
I had not heard of you before your guest strip on PvP. You’ve got a great style and I really wish I spoke spanish so I could enjoy your site. Can’t wait to see an english translation.
Thanks, Elijah. It was already planned to do the comic in both languages. I hope it doesn’t take longer than a couple of weeks.
¿Qué te digo mi querido Bachán? PVP fué el primer comic que empecé a seguir regularmente hace ya varios años y fué el que me inició en todo esto, al igual que te pasó a ti. No sabes el gusto que me da ver a un autor mexicano aquí. Y doble gusto que además seas tu
¡Felicidades!
Despite living in Arizona most of my life, my Spanish is still rudimentary but damn! You are one talented dude! Seriously, your work is truly breathtaking…I’ve just spent the better part of an hour poking around…keep it up bro!
Thanks, Derek. I’m glad you liked it. I hope you’ll visit often when I have the english version.
Angel, muchas gracias también. Se siente como si fuera mi cumpleaños. Y ahora no sean gachos, y vayan a felicitar a Maritza también. Esto no sale si no es por ella: http://www.doomies.com/
Honor a quien honor merece!! FELICIDADES por el muy merecido reconocimiento!!
Your artwork is great! Sadly I do not speak spanish, so I will have to wait for the translated strips(or spend some time with the Google translation page open beside your site) Bookmarked along with the other webcomics I read every morning.
Thanks, Brian. Hopefully it won’t be long.
This makes me wonder something… I have a feeling that most of my REGULAR spanish-speaking readers also speak english. Could any of you confirm this? -I know you wouldn’t be able to deny it if you can’t understand the question, but if you DO, maybe it wouldn’t be a bad idea to forego the two-language thing, and start doing this whole site in english.
It would save me a LOT of work.
Any opinions on this?
Just wanted to say that I’m another visitor from PVP and I want you to know that I love your art style. Like the others, I’ve got a pretty basic understanding of Spanish, (speak it better than I read it) and I can’t wait till I can put the words with the outstanding pictures.
Just wanted to let you know that I love your art and am looking forward to the english version. Keep it up!
Beautiful work, wishing my spanish was better, looking forward to the translated version. Well Done
Primero que nada, felicidades por esa participación en PVP, como es natural en ti, esta genial.
Segundo, sabía que solo era question de tiempo para que tu gran talento traspasara fronteras, vientos!
Y tercero, about your question: indeed, I think that in Mexico most of the comic fans need to know some english, because we like a lot of U.S. characters and it isn’t a bad idea at all to do the whole site in english. It wouldn’t be fair for ALL your fans, though. Because not everybody speak english… I think the better way is the two-language version and you’ll just need someone helping you… mora than one would apply for that…
Saludos / grettings…
I’m suscribed to PVPs RSS feed, so this morning I read it and noticed how awesome the art looked (even though I really love the usual style, hehe). I then read the fact that it was a guestcomic, and saw the very familiar names Bachan and Maritza there… I could not believe it. I’m thrilled to see their work featured on such an important site. Congratulations to both of you!!! And, to be frank, congratulations to Scott too, on having such great guest strips!
Love the look of your comic! I could read it pretty well due to 4 years of high school Spanish back in the 80s. I will see how much I can continue to read. Your PVP strip was fantastic! I’m going to plug you shortly on my podcast page which won’t give you the hits that PVP does, but you may get one or two! ¡Buena suerte!
Bachan – primo, pues te anotaste un 10 con el arte y haber publicado el gueststrip en si. Ya sabes que si necesitas ayuda con las traducciones, te ayudo a cambio de dos conchas tia rosa y una estampita del bulbo.
(pero es en serio – las traducciones de comic se me dan
)
I loved the guest strip! Absolutely beautiful artwork and a great laugh!
Am I the only one who had a bit of cognitive dissonance with the statement:
“… Where mrs. Kurtz, Guigar, Kellet and Straub explained the ins …”
I know that in Spanish that Senor is pluralized as Senores, and abbreviated as Srs. Unfortunately, the same process produces mrs. in English which is the abreviation for a married woman. I was initially confused that this was a gender-bender comment, until I realized the Spanish origin of the abbreviation…
Thanks for the comments, and the good wishes. Anonymous: You’re right, that was a mistake on my part. Actually, now that I think about it, I have no idea on how to pluralize “Mr” in english. I will probably need some help with the english version of this thing.
There. Fixed the best way I know how.
Heh.
Como respuesta a tu pregunta, yo si entiendo los dos idiomas. Como sugerencia, dejalos ambos, a mi me funciona muy bien (y supongo que a Maritza tambien).
Tu tienes la fortuna de utilizar una fuente para tus textos, es mas facil editarlos, no estas retrasado como yo que los hago a mano en ambos idiomas.
Wow, love the artwork. I try to imagine your version of Kung Fu Panda. I am also regretting I only took two years of spanish. but I am subscribing so please let me know when the english version of your comics are ready!
Amazing artwork ! I (like many above) wish I could read spanish to enjoy your comic ! If your drawing reflects your talents I am sure I would enjoy your writing
-Cheers from Canada
I can help you if you want, bro
Of course, some of the joke adaptation has to be tightly supervised, but you know, I have a bit of experience with that 
Congregations, master Bachan! Certainly was a matter of time –mostly, just to get the chance– that the world shall to realize about your talent. About your question, I’m one of your regular readers whose maternal language is Spanish, but I fluent in English as well, at least when I wrote. Chance Producciones Balazo a bilingual site certainly will be a good idea. From now and ever, this is a global world (sorry for the reiteration :p) and English is the vehicle to reach world wide fame (and more much money!) Should be better to use English as an international language before Mandarin replace it, since I had ear that learn Mandarin it’s so complicate as Chinese does.
Nomas un problema Bachan cuando pases al sitio en
ingles, se perderan muchos chistes
Nomas mira la tira que subiste hoy, muchos de tus punchlines
son regionalismos muy mexicanenses especialmente cuando te
echa la manos Gantus no llega a los extremos de aztecas contra romanos
pero aun así.
Segundo cuando uno mismo traduce las tiras realmente el problema
es que es muy dificil darte cuenta de los errores gramaticales y de sintaxis
practicamente pierdo más tiempo checando la traduccion
que en otras facetas de mi tira (no es lo mismo leer un libro que
escribirlo)
Pero aun así no te desanimes
Algeya… esteee…. ¿gracias? Ya me metiste miedo, compadre. Je.
Es que no puede usar los mismos chistes, tiene que poner otros, de ahí que es necesaria una adaptación. El mismo chiste de la tira invitada de PvP es un juego de palabras intraducible, por eso digo que algunas cosas tienen que ser supervisadas de cerca
I´ll be back if and when this is translated
Kinda feels ashamed i didnt pay more attention in my spanish lessons (im from Denmark and Spanish would have been my 4´th language so i decided i would rather be lazy than learn spanish!! ) Could you maybe add a news letter when you get this ready for us non-hispanic audiences?? (is that even a word??)
Hola Bachan, muchas felicidades por la colaboración. Esta padrísima. Tu y Maritza Son todas unas celebridades del webcómic Nacional.
Another fan of Mr. Kurtz and his comic. I was blown away by your guest comic – I really think it is the best guest strip of the week! I wish I could understand Spanish, but I think you’re a fantastic story teller just through your illustrations. I spent a good while ‘reading’ your comic and making translations up. Keep up the great work!
Dear Bach, I somehow got puzzled and sad when you wrote up there “even from a country like Mexico”.
What do you mean with that?
I know we’re really f***ed up — as Gandul demonstrated in his strip today, but won’t you please elaborate?
Congrats on becoming a reg’lar web comic celebrity dude.
Send ya hugs.
Congratulations, Bachan, your participation at PVP is stunning as always, but, with a great succes comes a great responsability, ( I don’t remember where I read that) and I think you should keep on working in both languages, at least until everybody know what’s going on, cause a lot of spanish-speaking readers have been following you for a long long time, I suggest you to start by translating this post, so they can congratulate you and share their point of view
Dogmatix!!
*hugs rulas’s avatar*
Fantastic work, great guest strip. Really inspiring.
Love your work down here in New Zealand.
G.
Wow! This is mind-blowing… New Zealand, Denmark, Sweden, Canada…? Wow. Now I feel international! Heh.
Yep. In english.
SOON.
Thank you!
Thanks Nicole!, in México we call him Idefix.
Antes que nada muchísimas felicitaciones estimadísimo Bachan!!!!!
No dejes de lado el español men, habrá muchos que como yono tienen problema alguno con leer en inglés pero no le des la espalda a tu lengua mater y a latinoamérica men!!
Saludos superlativos y abrazos, mucho éxito!!!!
Bien por ti Bachan!
Dear Bachan, I want to remind you that the offer I made almost in the begining of producciones Balazo to help with the translation still stands.
on the other hand. congratulations!!!!!!
Wow! Cada día una nueva sorpresa por parte de Bachan!
Muchas felicidades y aquì ya hago cruces con las manos para que tanta gente nueva no tumbe el sitio 
Y pues si bien te sería bastante conveniente tener una sección en ingles, no creo que tenerlo TOOODO en ingles sea una buena idea. No es por querer hacer que trabajes el doble, pero varias de tus tiras son bastante chilangas, desde el setting hasta chiste, incluido el dialogo. Y si trataras de hacerlas en ingles simplemente no serìa lo mismo. Aparte de que serìa injusto para los lectores de balazo que no se les da en ingles. Podrìas hacer unas tiras en ingles y unas en español segùn como te funcione, aunque eso significara que ya no pudieras sacar tantas tiras en español por andar adaptando las que ya hiciste. Tu sabras.
Felicidades de nuevo
Hey love your style, really great
Hoping to see your comics in english soon, but even now without understanding a word, they look great
Bachan flippin’ the script once again! Mad props!
Simply awesome!! This could be said from the start: you’re great Bachan!!! Yeah, some of your readers studied English.
We love your style and know you’re going to be a world-known creator of webcomics.
Jijiji… and Maritza and Algeya have a point there, is not only a matter of ideas’ translation, is about sense and local meanings, but they, the new lectors, would have a good chance to meet our culture from the very inside. ^^
I’m not as good as I once be at English, so I’m apologizing in advance. Congrats to Maritza and you for the work!
Jejeje, profilacticos. lol Con q esto no se vuelva una serie de comerciales. xD Si no el Bulbo va a terminar siendo comparado con los q regala el sector salud. o.o
Yo llevo siguiendo tu trabaja hacealgun tiempo. Increíble, buenísimo, y me dió una alegría grandísima, ver tu tira en el site de PvP (al que también sigo regularmente.
Tu trabajo es impresionante.
Hi Bachan!
First, I love your artwork! Great choice of colors, it is amazing! I read from PVPOnline that you’re a guy, but “Bachan” in Japanese means “grandma”. So your name makes me visualize my 90 year old grandmother doing webcomics!
yo lo prefiero en español, ya que me encanta mi idioma y creo que el humor que manejas es más acertado en español, por otro lado, si leo el inglés y si pones tu sitio en inglés lo seguiría viendo (debo decir una vez más que lo prefiero en español) pero sé que si te conviene más ya sea por tiempo o por proyección internacional, pues definitivamente el inglés es lo más conveniente.
de ser posible, Español e Inglés.
como sea, yo apoyo tu sitio y tu talento en ambos idiomas (aunque prefiero nuestro alburero y sabrosón idioma cervantino).
Kadigan: Yes, I know. It was a funny coincidence. My ‘real’ name is Sebastian, and I was named that in honor of Johann Sebastian Bach, whom my dad really admires. He made up the nickname ‘Bachan’ from Bach. Years later I found out the unfortunate meaning in Japanese, Heh.
I also know it’s a relatively common name in India.
On the language thing, it seems there’s a consensus. It’s going to be both. I’ll start with the translating this weekend.
Again, thanks to all for visiting, and I really appreciate the kind words.
¡Estupenda escalonada Bachan! Ayer me contó Mudo de esto y ah como me lleno de gusto, ¡felicidades!
Ahora a la talacha de trabajar en los dos idiomas, Oouchy! jejeje…
Good Things
De nada, rulas!
Idefix is truly an international star.