Why does Carl wear the Santa hat?

Why does Carl the Catfish wear the Santa Hat?

That’s all my daughter wanted to know. 

What started off as a father writing a simple Christmas tale about a doodle turned into a ten-year quest to find the perfect—sorry, purr-fect—holiday story—Until Carl got fed up and left the manuscript.

Carl is a wildly inventive adventure full of almost-stories, meta humor and a quirky catfish in a Santa hat. It's not exactly a kids story, but not not one either. Carl doesn't quite fit in any category but somehow belongs to all of them.

This is what happens when you don’t trust your ideas.   

It’s for every parent or creative struggling with perfectionism.

Anthony Maranville is a writer with screen credits that include Star Trek: Discovery, Monk, and Brain Child (produced by Pharrell Williams). He currently co-writes the fantasy graphic novel series Pandora with comic book legend Frank Miller, and is the co-author of Hide or Seek, written with former co-publisher of DC Comics, Dan DiDio (featured on Reading with Jenna), and the playwright behind the acclaimed show Drinking with Grandma.

“Probably the second or third greatest story about a floating catfish ever told.”