Sorry for the image quality on this old stuff. Many of the original art files from all those years and houses and ego-deaths ago have been impossible to locate—which is, sigh, just so life 2023-07-03 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Roast Beef has begun a new interview series in which he asks the gang their beliefs about utopia and heaven. For some reason, he decided to kick things off with Nice Pete.
2023-07-02 19:14:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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On June 14, 2018 — my birthday, incidentally—Pendleton Ward (Adventure Time, Bravest Warriors) came to Portland to have lunch. We'd known each other ever...
2023-07-02 06:19:13 +0000 UTC View Post
In this penultimate installment of the Return to Achewood arc, we take a brief moment to show appreciation for the genius of Max Fleischer. If you were, like our special guest, born in the 1920s, t...
2023-06-30 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Our beloved guest from the public domain was naïve to assume that the modern world's hijinks began and ended with CornHub. It used to be that you just slapped this fellow's face on a book about sh...
2023-06-23 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Roast Beef hadn't seen Todd since before Covid, so he went down to an alley where Todd was often found, to check on the guy. What follows is a delightful recounting of their conversation, which ran...
2023-06-20 17:49:45 +0000 UTC View Post
I was talking with this subscriber, M.B., and he said that the "Out-Of-Character-Comix!" one-offs were among his favorite strips. It got me to thinking about the challenge of writing brief, single-...
2023-06-16 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I wrote and illustrated the following twelve pieces (see PDF below) for a series that The New Yorker’s Zach Kanin (SNL, I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson) and ...
2023-06-15 19:05:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Lyle briefly interrupts our narrative-in-progress to pose a question that many have struggled with—particularly those who indulge too heavily in stews made with cured meats. The nature of the mod...
2023-06-09 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Much to everyone's relief, Beef decided to cancel his planned "bitcoin" issue after creating just one page of it. He was doing some research but then was just like "fuck this," you know, like how y...
2023-06-07 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostDream journal for Monday, May 15, 2023
Written upon waking
Nonfiction
Chris Onstad
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I’m on a family vacation to Hawaii, to the island we usually v...
2023-06-05 07:50:23 +0000 UTC View Post
My business partner BP grew up in Japan, so we had us some good ol'-fashion fun translating Achewood strips into Japanese. Instead of "achewood" as the masthead, it now says, "ai-ku-boku," with the...
2023-06-04 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
In the attached piece, Roast Beef describes the time that he, with Ray's encouragement, practiced selling marijuana to a man who was probably already going to say yes. (The man we are talking about...
2023-06-03 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Though they may plausibly have emerged from the same craftsman's workshop those many years ago, Cornelius and our mystery guest could not be more different. Ray Smuckles, however, assumes that they...
2023-06-02 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm engaged!
But Chris, to whom, we ask. And can you please announce this as a comic involving Philippe and not you.
Two years ago Saturday I had my first date with Lauren, and...
2023-05-31 20:55:35 +0000 UTC View Post
They said to mete content out carefully, deliberately. But there is so much archival material to share that I decided to recklessly launch with three Assetbar classics today, and just get this ...
2023-05-30 16:56:06 +0000 UTC View Post
As Ray Smuckles slowly uses the toilet (standing), he muses upon and then quickly confronts the very nature of death ("No."). Our mystery visitor arrives and provides him with first-hand p...
2023-05-26 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
This is what the rough draft of an Achewood comic looks like, before I spend weeks workshopping the dialogue and eyebrow movements with the technicians and fellow artists at the Zinkmann Cartoonist...
2023-05-20 18:07:35 +0000 UTC View Post
In this momentary departure from the story arc already in place, Lyle and Téodor come to strong words over the nature of psychopharmacological distraction. Professional readers will note that Lyle...
2023-05-19 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostAchewood has had many archives and appearances outside of the main site: WebComicsNation, Assetbar/Fanflow, and various incarnations of the Honor Club, to name but a few. Our Discord users have sug...
2023-05-16 21:09:52 +0000 UTC View Post
In a thrillingly on-time update (I kid; these updates are loaded long in advance), Ray continues to declare corporeal discomfort so great that he must be served by others. His long-suffering friend...
2023-05-12 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Thank you, Author's Tier subscriber! (I would auto-populate your name here, but there is a certain intersection where The Mammal Privacy & Decency Act of 1933* meets
I've seen a few people draw an inaccurate conclusion from the Verge article ...
2023-05-08 23:37:42 +0000 UTC View Post
In part one of a multi-strip arc which narrowly escaped the title Return to Fogleg-Codhorn, we see Ray Smuckles arise from the Pharaoh's pit only to be greeted by Roast Beef, his friend of...
2023-05-05 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostRoast Beef accidentally records a "podcast" with Pat. They cover Pat's latest love life adventures, food product innovations, and much more. Read the full transcript here; professional readers (aka...
2023-05-05 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostIn this short story we look deeply into the contemporary adult lives of Charlie Brown and Snoopy, in their shared apartment. Watch in wonder as they discuss a fight between a neighboring couple, ph...
2023-05-05 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post