Check out the new TRANSLATIONS page.
Over the past year, readers have translated some of my comics – sometimes for a school project, for their own blog or so they can just share it with their friends privately. I’ve finally started organising them and have put together a translations page. As you can see, there are only a handful so far and I would love to have more and in as many languages as possible. That’s where you come in – I obviously can’t translate them myself because I’m only (barely) fluent in English, so I need you, my lovely readers, to translate the comics for me. I can provide lo-res comics with the English words removed so it’s easy for you to just place the translated words on top. You can do whichever one you like and as many or as few as you like. With your help, we could turn this into a truly international website!
So send me an email if you’re interested 
To my many Brazilian fans: I’ve already got some people working on Portuguese/Brazilian translations, they should be available soon.
You should have someone do it in Esperanto and be done with it.
I could read it, but my translations would be crap.
Hi Gavin, I can surely help with Hindi , fluency in reading, writing and speaking
What a pity! I’d love to translate it to portuguese! But I’m glad there’s people working on it!
Hi, I put a translation of #101 as a comment. http://zenpencils.com/comic/101-winston-churchill-never-yield-to-force/#comment-21098
I can edit it in the comic if you like…
any language?
Hi Gavin, I surely want to help if you want to translate into malay
Can we get a “standard” font? It would be nice if everyone used the same font.
I would love to translate your comics into Russian!
I can do Spanish
Hey!
I find this site truly inspirational, I could help you with the Spanish translations.
Would love to do translations to dutch…
I’ll be glad to help, I can translate in spanish and french…
I will do it in Hindi (India)
I could translate the comics in Spanish :3
How ’bout Dutch?
Hi Gavin,
I would be glad to help with Greek. Maybe even Ancient Greek lol!
Let me know
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I have translated some and, of course, are at your disposal.
http://elguindilla.com/tagged/zen
Best regards
I can do “le french” mon ami
I can do dutch
I count 3 volunteers for dutch and with me that would be 4. If we get organized we can review each other and do it.
Your site is very inspirational, and the drawings are awesome!
I can help with translations to Italian.
Hi, I can surely translate all of them into Romanian
I´ll be happy to do the Czech, my friend.
Dibs on (some) German strips – I wouldn’t complain to share the feat
I already sent an email.
I can translate into Russian or Ukrainian if you want.
Hello Gavin,
I love your work. It will be a pleasure help you translate to portuguese, as you i want to spread the word all around. I also a communnication Design, if you want i can help placing the type. All best from Madeira Island – Portugal. Márcio Ribeiro
hi kevin . i can help for turkish
I would be very pleased to assist you in the translation of your comic into the german language.I will send you an e-mail.
I can translate to Spanish, just ask if you need help.
I could translate to Polish, if that’d be an option.
I’m chinese. like your comics so much . maybe I can help to translate to chinese.
I can help the others translate to german
Hello, I could translate them into Romanian
I can help to translate the comics to spanish!
Urdu translator here.
Hey people… I’m an English-Spanish translator in case anyone needs help… matias_19_flaco@hotmail.com
Also remember that many of these have already been translated… so if the quotes in Spanish are already known by many, it should be better to use the “most common” translation…
Gavin, I’m a huge fan, and I’d be honored to help you translate your comics to spanish language, spanish is my native language so it won’t be hard for me
hope you consider me, thanks a lot
keep up the good work! =)
Hi Gavin!
I’m a Spanish fan! You’re awesome and I think the same as you write in your comics
Recently I’ve read some comics translated into Spanish in a web: “elguindilla”. Here’s an example of a translated comic. Hope it can help you
http://elguindilla.com/post/42869331960/c-s-lewis-amar-es-ser-vulnerable-el
Well, gav, if you have already a brazilian translation team, fine; but, please, gather skilled people. Because i’ve seen the translations that are around in pt-br and they are awful. Just awful.
hugs ans keep up the good work.
I could do Chinese too!
yo puedo traducir al español!
spanish : )
I will be glad to help you translating to spanish.
I would love to help people do German translations!
I’ll be more than glad to translate some of your lovely works in Italian.
Wow, it’s been less than 12 hours since I posted this and I’ve received nearly 400 emails!!!!!! Incredible! Thank you so much to you all for offering to help. Ok, it’s going to take me a while to sort through everything and figure out an efficient system to do this – a lot of people want to translate the same language so it would be good if I grouped you together and split up the comics between you. Bear with me – I’ll think of something. Thank you again!
Hey, I’m back just to clarify… I am from Argentina, so I can help with Latin American Spanish…
Hi there, we’d be happy to do French, Spanish and Greek for you.
Hara and Rachel
Hi! I am from India and I can help you with English, Spanish and Hindi.
I’m your Indonesia translator.
count me in
Me too!
I would most happy if I could be allowed to help do it in Yoruba, I think it would be awesome.
I would be very happy, If I could be allowed to help do it Yoruba, I think it would be awesome.
I just hope whoever is translating to brazilian portugues is doing a good job, most of these translations are done by famous bloggers just to get pageviews/shares on facebook and it really pisses me off to see how they sometimes misinterpret the entire comic and ruin it.
BTW: In the small pic you used on the header (http://maxcdn.zenpencils.com/wp-content/uploads/spanishpic.jpg) the right translation is: “Soy el amo de mi destino”.
In spanish, “master” can be translated as “maestro” and “amo”. “Maestro” its a synonym of “teacher” and “amo” its almost a synonym of “owner”.
After looking through the comments I haven’t seen any Vietnamese translator. I come from Vietnam I can help you translate the comics from English to Vietnamese.
Hey mate,
I was just looking through and could offer you German & Polish translations, if you are still looking. And great drawings, just for you to know…
Cheers, Chris
Nice job GAV!
I’d be glad to help with Persian.
Keep doing the good job, pal.
I’m here if you ever need a Thai translation. I’m a big fan of your work.
?Hi.
I’m at work surfing around your blog from my iphone 4S! Just wanted to say I love reading your blog and look forward to all your posts!
Gav please put the Portuguese translations for your page, my english is bad and I am thrilled to be able to read them
They’re coming soon, promise!
Ok Gav, I’m on hold.
thank you
I have plenty of time in my hands and I Can Translate the quotes to Portuguese. My previous experience refers to scientific articles from ISBN I had to translate for my Universities classes.
Hey Gav, another brazilian huge fan, there are so many people, I won’t even offer since I can’t even edit, just do the translation, but if needed I would gadly help.
Every day I open the zen pencils.com, and click on the translations wait to find the translations for the Portuguese.
Gave Please do not take much to put them :/
Sorry Luiz, they’re being done by professional comic company. They insist it will be completed soon. I promise it will be worth the wait!