The Bay Area’s favorite anthropomorphized airborne event, Karl the Fog, is known for pithy send-ups of Northern Californians’ quirky relationship with our mild climate and for the occasional political zinger. Fans of the Twitter and Instagram accounts, with their 355,000 and 242,000 followers, now have another reason to love, um, him. He’s getting a book!
On May 7, Chronicle Books will release Karl the Fog ($14.95), a compendium of selfies — which is to say, nature shots and artistic spreads of the city — leavened by the occasional groaner pun. Announced last week, we finally have some more details as of this morning — although the creator of the Karl the Fog social-media accounts remains a mostly anonymous individual who lives in Silicon Valley and otherwise keeps details under wraps.
It’s essentially a coffee table book showing a lot of love for various city landmarks. Knowing that the bone-chilling assassin of warm afternoons in Dolores Park elicits mixed reactions from S.F. dwellers, its physical cover is a “removable cloud.” None other than Sutro Tower wrote the foreword, too!
Tonight’s forecast:
• Rain
• Clear skies
• Rain
• Hail
• Clear skies
• Rain
• Heavy rain
• Hail
• Clear skies
• Rain
• Clear skies
• Rain— Karl the Fog ☁️ (@KarlTheFog) February 5, 2019
Good morning from San Francisco where we have beautiful weather all year round pic.twitter.com/MoZQ0yJdzX
— Karl the Fog ☁️ (@KarlTheFog) October 25, 2018
2018: the year San Francisco never got summer
— Karl the Fog ☁️ (@KarlTheFog) October 17, 2018
Just saw three kids on 24th St dressed as @KarlTheFog over the Golden Gate Bridge 😂 #HalloweenSF pic.twitter.com/MLm6XkWPJe
— Adrian Spinelli (@AGSpinelli) October 31, 2018
Beloved to the point that schoolchildren assemble elaborate Golden-Gate-Bridge-shrouded-in-Karl group costumes, Karl the Fog is sure to be a hit. Except maybe among tormented tourists shivering in line for the Alcatraz ferry.
