About Silicate

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Author & History

Hi! I’m Christian Aribaud! Some may also now me as “Bohren”.

I’ve loved webcomic for as long as I can remember! Just imagine – artists creating amazing comics, and they put it online for all to see! And for free! How cool is that?

And since they put their work online for free, I wanted to help them.

There are two things I know well: software development and speaking French. Yes, I know, I’m sorry.

I helped a few times the webcomic Pepper & Carrot but nowadays I’m one of the French translators for Rising Sand!

And while I love webcomics, I also saw these past years how things can get dire for the authors – platforms degrading, exploiting artists, shutting down, embracing that freaking GenAI trend…

And then two things happened : I got interested in Hugo and the RS website ran into trouble with multilingual support.

I wondered if I could give artists a way to create simple webcomic websites using Hugo without having to relly on third-party platforms or WordPress.

Silicate is the result.

Why the name Silicate?

I chose Silicate as an homage to Rising Sand, because it’s what got me started!

Also, “Silicate” is pronounced like “Silly Cat” in french, which I find very funny.

A silly cat

Contacts

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