In this primordial—nay, primitive—strip, a very rough sketch of the Roast Beef prototype inadvertently communicates to Vlad that he has nearly zero exposure to women. In return, Vlad s...
2024-03-29 00:25:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Kenji López-Alt's smash burger recipe on Serious Eats is four written pages long. It is six hundred words longer than the Declaration of Independence (1,959 to 1,320), and has fourteen photog...
2024-03-28 19:19:53 +0000 UTC View Post
The evening before my parents, Lauren, and I descended upon Hayden's farm to build a new pergola out of the old fort, I sensed complications arising. Everyone in the group, it seemed, had their own...
2024-03-25 22:45:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Shirt lines that didn't make the cut:
*
I AM LYLE
I SMELL LIKE
I WENT JOGGING WITH ONION SLICES IN MY ARMPITS
and
YARD TOOLS
*
I already...
2024-03-22 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
In this brand-new story, Ray takes Cornelius on a drive to the ophthalmologist, but, as these things go, that is the least of what occurs.
(As an aside to all this, I'm still looking for ...
2024-03-21 18:33:31 +0000 UTC View Post
A brief e-mail exchange between Lauren and me, as we sat in our respective offices Monday morning.
Perhaps you would enjoy captioning it, as well?
2024-03-19 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Curious to hear from you chochachos of the Author's Tier about your specific feelings on these panels. I couldn't ask you this until now because my parents were staying with us, but tonight my pare...
2024-03-18 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
I have spent the past week entertaining my parents, who are visiting from out of town. We are the sort of family who hold seven concurrent conversations despite there being only three people in the...
2024-03-15 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
In 2010, back when I was still married and we all lived at the old house together, my wife and kid went on a trip to see her family in California. While they were gone, I thought it would be an act...
2024-03-09 18:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
This strip was remarkable to me because the original script took about ten minutes to write, and changed very little through the production stage. (This happens maybe once every thousand strips.) I...
2024-03-08 18:21:21 +0000 UTC View Post
I add to this list: Oncoming drivers whom you move aside to let pass on a narrow street yet fail to wave. People who bring dogs into coffee shops and don't notice your glaring. Ship captains who ga...
2024-03-08 18:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Sure, you could have just gone to Twitter and read all this, but I doubt many people are going there to look for Philippe Twitter content anymore (his last post was eleven years ago), so I, in the ...
2024-03-07 18:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
A friend once took his young boy to witness an exposition of monster trucks — for the boy’s sake, not his own — and returned home a full-throated proselyte of the spectacle. So complete ...
2024-03-05 01:41:19 +0000 UTC View Post
The "Truth Vase" is defined as any item in a house over which two inhabitants disagree, but whose content or form cannot be explicitly denied as actual. What's your Truth Vase?
2024-03-01 18:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Please post your questions for me within twenty-four hours of this Q&A going live! (I.e., between now and tomorrow, Thursday February 29, 11AM Pacific.) I will respond over the course of the fo...
2024-02-28 19:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
The second Q&A will also be open to non-subscribers, in the hopes that it will get new people on board and enjoying the most recent year of Achewood. This is the best and most consistent materi...
2024-02-27 20:44:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Good Monday Morning, Valued Denizen of the Author’s Tier!
Here is some news of my week, which I present to you as valid entertainment.
1. An Exciting Medical Device!<...
2024-02-26 19:14:58 +0000 UTC View Post
This is just a little comic with a little idea in it. Lyle does not burst through the wall with a buzzsaw, raging about the inadequacy of the present. Maybe this comic is kind of peaceful. It is a ...
2024-02-26 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
In the cold light of morning, as the dew sticks to the neighbor's eaves and the hot joe sits silently in the mug beside you, some of the previous night's panels bring only shame.
2024-02-23 18:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
(Note: precisely one minute after this strip posts, six rejected panels from it will post in the In-Universe and Author's tiers.)
If our bodies can release a...
2024-02-23 18:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
This is going back, back, back so far that the type is pixelated and their muzzles are, for some unknown reason, now rendering as blotchy color, as though they were slowly derezzing out of our univ...
2024-02-22 20:52:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Please enjoy the full transcript of this long-forgotten public service bulletin, recently discovered by Roast Beef Kazenzakis at a cavernous junk shop several miles out of town.
2024-02-17 17:41:52 +0000 UTC View Post
What's one unsettling or otherwise noteworthy detail you've discovered in an Airbnb? I once opened a jar of shampoo and caught Hugh Laurie's limp from House.
2024-02-16 18:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
(Please see the photo captions for more-concise early thoughts on my visit here.)
With the exception of the local drivers, upon whose murderous pathologies I will ex...
2024-02-13 21:04:22 +0000 UTC View Post
We see Ray and Beef growing distant in the wake of the victory which redefined their lives.
2024-02-10 18:00:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Next week we begin a run of Old School Classic standalone strips, set to run indefinitely. The story arcs are very pleasing to mull over and plot, but under the mop of my well-being I sense a hunge...
2024-02-09 18:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
In the little house on Holly Street, before the baby and the book tours and the Oregon move and the rest of that rise and spectacular grind of a fall, I went to Michael’s Arts and Crafts and boug...
2024-02-05 20:39:45 +0000 UTC View Post
My baking coach Neven brought over some fresh homemade bagels this morning (final photo), so we laid out the fish and brineys and did it up. Afterwards I spent a while in the studio taking a few pa...
2024-02-04 22:47:34 +0000 UTC View Post
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**I AM NOT SURE BUT I THINK I COULD GET COMPLETELY YELLED AT**
This is actually ...
2024-02-03 18:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
That's right, this one's two pages long. Don't forget to read the second page, because that is where the finale is. If you just read the first page, it will seem like a pretty bad finale, or at lea...
2024-02-02 18:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post