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2001-2023 - How We've Aged

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...

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Battening Down the Hatches For Autumn

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 i...

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0025 - Ray and Pat in, "Road Trip," Pt. 9

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 Ro...

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More Beanies, Framed Strips Just Added to Shop

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" sc...

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Password for Achewood Shop - Soft Launch Open Now!

Patreon supporters, please come in and take first crack at our holiday 2023 goods! We are standing by for your orders!

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2023 Holiday Shop Sneak Preview

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 Paci...

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The Condition of the Great Outdoor Fight Enterprise After the Kazenzakis-Smuckles Razing (pdf)

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)

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0024 - Ray and Pat in, "Road Trip," Pt. 8

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 s...

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Ask Me Anything! Author Q&A Thread #1

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. Pat...

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Link to Achewood Digital Bookshop

I don't advertise this often enough. At this link you can instantly download a dozen classic Achewood books, including ...

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Author’s Tier Photo Journal – My Fiancé is a Badass

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...

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0023 - Ray and Pat in, "Road Trip," Pt. 7

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 Zep...

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Strip Outtakes from the Drawing Table

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...

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Assetbar Archive: Prime Time Vanity Albums, Nov 2010, Ray

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. 

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22nd Anniversary Flashback: 8-page Color Comic

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...

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Roast Beef and the Cup of Coffee

In 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. 

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0022 - Ray and Pat in, "Road Trip," Pt. 6

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 t...

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Speaking Engagement at Patreon HQ

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.  


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Assetbar Archive: Prime Time Vanity Albums, Nov 2010, Roast Beef

A continuance of the series. Ohhhh shiiiiiiit

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0021 - Ray and Pat in, "Road Trip," Pt. 5

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 abo...

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Assetbar Archive: Prime Time Vanity Albums, July 2009

When the cash is in stacks and your standards are lax, you can release some pretty wack wax. 

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0020 - Ray and Pat in, "Road Trip," Pt. 4

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 psil...

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Latest Achewood News - September 12, 2023

A few weeks ago I was conducted on a trip down memory lane by journalist and long-era Chochacho Alex Siqu...

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(Pic #2 NSFW) Achewood: Inside the Prototype Studio

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 t...

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0019 - Ray and Pat in, "Road Trip," Pt. 3

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 t...

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A scene from the ending phase of Pat and Rod’s now-defunct relationship.

In 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 no...

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Proposed Box Design for Oni Anthology, Vol 1 (RIP)

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...

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The Netflix Achewood Series That Almost Was, Part 2

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...

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0018 - Ray and Pat in, "Road Trip," Pt. 2

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 ...

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August 2023 Photo Diary - Strip Teaser in Last Pic

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 nev...

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