Yesterday at Lowe's home improvement center (of course) I realized that I was wearing boots, and this caused me to remember that on the Achewood About page I am also wearing boots. This gave me the idea to do a little "then and now" bit.
Philippe has some kind of blemish on his lip th...
2023-10-22 18:52:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Do you become unduly exercised by people who post slideshows that have no people in them, such as of landscapes and buildings? If so, you and I share this trait. I have little use for unpopulated images. Our telephones were not engineered to capture the grandeur of that glowering harvest moon, or...
2023-10-21 06:31:57 +0000 UTC View Post
I would like to make a note on language, here, but it contains a spoiler, so please read the strip before I get into it.
In panel three, Pat coins the phrase, "You spit-once-and-fuck Romeo!" What is meant by this may be unclear to some readers, as it is new. It is meant to describe a ...
2023-10-20 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Beanies are back in stock! I am greatly loathe to make this a "merch blast" channel in your life. Very greatly. You are here for the Achewood content, not my "get rich slow" schemes. Once I make the shop public (it's still behind the "entropy1" password) these a...
2023-10-17 20:27:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Patreon supporters, please come in and take first crack at our holiday 2023 goods! We are standing by for your orders!
To shop, please visit https://achewood-holiday-pop-up.myshopify.com and use the passwo...
2023-10-16 18:50:03 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a quick preview of a few cool new things we've added to this holiday season's lineup! I'm putting the finishing touches on the store now, and expect to launch it Monday afternoon Pacific (as in, October 16). As a Patreon supporter, you'll get notified of the launch several hours ahe...
2023-10-16 04:54:35 +0000 UTC View Post
What happened to the Great Outdoor Fight in the years after its unprecedented 2006 razing? Fight historian Joel Steinmetz offers this brief overview from 2014. (PDF)
2023-10-14 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
A freshly-bathed Ray wanders in and discovers Pat, who is suffering from the more acute form of "couch-lock" known as rug-bug. And Pat is anything but snug.
It is my sincere hope that someone takes row number two and turns it into a pleasant little animation.
2023-10-13 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Please post your questions for me within twenty-four hours of this Q&A going live! (I.e., before Friday, October 13, 10AM Pacific.) I will respond over the course of the following few days. Patreon will send you a message when I reply to you.
Questions can be about anything, though Ach...
2023-10-12 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
I don't advertise this often enough. At this link you can instantly download a dozen classic Achewood books, including both cookbooks, several of Beef's 'zines, and a handful of rarely-seen, must-have titles for the com...
2023-10-10 15:36:14 +0000 UTC View Post
In one of my favorite photographs of my fiancé Lauren, shared above, she is standing some ten feet in the air, perched confidently on a cinder block wall, running a saw through a miserable stretch of concrete Hardie board. I stand safely below, performing light photojournalism and occasionally h...
2023-10-09 04:50:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Ramathustra Ron's martini with a "twist" begins paying in spades. We see more deeply into Pat's Rod Huggins rabbit hole. We are left with the unshakeable feeling that perhaps, just perhaps, Led Zeppelin was real after all. Can you imagine?!
(Art credit for David the Gnome and his w...
2023-10-06 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
A little Thursday installment for the Author's Tier hardcores. The muppet-thing with the nose that comprises the significant portion of his face is from an actual fast-motion nightmare that had me convinced the body can produce its own DMT. (This was the same set of experiences that prod...
2023-10-05 14:42:57 +0000 UTC View Post
This is an album Ray would have made if he was a big cocaine guy in the 80s, but he actually just made it as a medium-average weed guy in the 'teens.
2023-10-02 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Twenty-two years ago today a little otter stood atop a drum machine manual, and in so doing tipped this ponderous universe into motion.
Of all the levers I have pulled with great and specific hope in my breast, this was not the one I thought would become the reference frame for my life. And...
2023-10-01 11:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostIn this harrowing but entirely relatable* short story, Roast Beef Kazenzakis and Téodor Orezscu discuss the former's recent attempt to drink caffeine at the gourmet grocery store.
* If you are somewhat but manageably bananas
2023-09-30 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Pat Reynolds, in history's first recorded instance of some fool overdosing on microdoses (we all thought it would be Todd), enters the first stage of his heroic ego disassembly. Tune in next week to see what's happening with Ray and his suspicious bathtub visit with Ramathustra Ron...only on...
Thanks to your resounding confidence in Achewood on the Patreon platform, Patreon flew me down to San Francisco to have a fireside chat with the home team.
A continuance of the series. Ohhhh shiiiiiiit
2023-09-24 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
In which we finally get a glimpse inside the Hut of Senses, and inside Ramathustra Ron's inner machinations. We still do not, however, see any of these Ray-crazed witches that Ray keeps talking about.
2023-09-22 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
When the cash is in stacks and your standards are lax, you can release some pretty wack wax.
2023-09-17 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
In which we get a closer look at His Elegance Ramathustra Ron, who seems to take an instant and outsize liking to the new prodigy at the edge of his ranks. And the effects of the small dose of psilocybin seem to have begun to slowly set in...or have they? Was it just a placebo to see if Ray reall...
2023-09-15 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
A few weeks ago I was conducted on a trip down memory lane by journalist and long-era Chochacho Alex Siquig. Mr. Siquig had lit upon the idea of covering the return of Achewood for Metro Silico...
2023-09-12 14:51:24 +0000 UTC View Post
With the brisk warning notes of firmer weather now puffing gently against the mullions, my thoughts naturally turn to Achewood anniversary and holiday preparations. Please enjoy this glimpse into things which are and are not in the works for the October 1 relaunch of the Achewood holiday shop! (M...
2023-09-09 15:40:49 +0000 UTC View Post
All I ever wanted was to direct a movie where a car pulls off of a paved highway and onto a gravel road where it goes "crunch." I bet David Lynch could tell you his all-time top five scenes where that...anyway, that crunch is the part of the movie where we know there's no going back to the way th...
2023-09-08 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostIn this short story involving Pat, a faulty MP3 player, and a policeman, we get to see a bit of how things were going toward the end of Pat and Rod's relationship.
It is important to note that the officer in the story, Keith, is in no way related to Kyth the masseuse with whom Pat was...
2023-09-05 03:31:16 +0000 UTC View Post
This was the proposed wraparound design for the box that would hold the ultra-luxe edition of volume one of the Achewood anthology that Oni was producing. The volume would come in three trim levels: Ultra-luxe (boxed, signed and numbered, with tip-in original illustration), Luxe (embossed hardcov...
2023-09-04 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Casting Roast Beef.
"Swing for the fences," Netflix said to us, regarding casting.
At the outset of the project, Pen had casually suggested Ryan Gosling for Roast Beef, and Jack Black as Ray. From a great height, both choices made sense: Gosling could do nuanced...
2023-09-03 17:33:52 +0000 UTC View Post
The two cats—one with greedy dreams of self-advancement, the other wholly consumed by the promise of getting it on with witches—near their mysterious destination. As we read the final panel, we can feel the rush of the brisk air conditioning of the inadequately-outfitted convenience ...
2023-09-01 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Author's Tier! I am looking at you, you special, beautiful people! (You are beautiful. Go in the bathroom mirror and look at yourself in that favorable way that the camera never seems to capture. We all do it, and even though no photographer has ever gotten us just right, we...
2023-08-31 17:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post