{"id":795,"date":"2022-02-17T00:34:45","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T05:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/ambroseburg\/?p=795"},"modified":"2022-02-17T00:39:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T05:39:24","slug":"early-ambroseburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/ambroseburg\/blog\/early-ambroseburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Ambroseburg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Long, long ago, as the twentieth century was drawing to a close, my friend Mike approached me with an idea. “You know those children’s ABC books,” he wrote (in a typewritten letter delivered via postal service, as was the custom), “I want to do a pastiche of one of those, but with a macabre, grotesque spin to it, and all centered around a small town…” This started a great exchange of drafts, sketches and ideas regarding what is now A is for Ambroseburg<\/em> (later on, there was a 2-decade period where all this correspondence sat untouched in a box in my closet, but let’s not dwell on that).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here, to amuse you while I work on letter E, are some of my earliest pencil sketches of A, B, and C. “D is for Dance” was a later addition, so the sketchbook containing these drawings doesn’t include Elias Himmelsbach’s Midnight Festival. The original idea for D was later moved to a letter further down the alphabet, and sharing those drawings now would only spoil the surprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n