In this heavily-updated and now-illustrated piece from 2009, Ray Smuckles' subconscious does him a heavy number after a particularly debauched evening with Téodor.
2024-02-01 18:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a reprint of a 2003 commissioned strip which ran in the now-defunct Flak Magazine (flakmag.com),...
2024-02-01 17:27:01 +0000 UTC View Post
While gathering artwork for a comic strip this evening* I came across a fairly nostalgic scratchboard to the left of the 8/8/2008 comic, in which Ray almost runs over an old lady in a crosswalk and...
2024-01-30 05:07:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Lauren and I are, with the significant aid of an ascendant and brilliantly-mentored local jeweler named Elise, designing her wedding ring. On Friday, our day off, we traveled across the river to do...
2024-01-28 21:40:51 +0000 UTC View Post
I apologize for failing to send out a few more of these ancient Serializer pieces since the first; there are maybe fifty of these old bugs, at most, worth sharing, so I have to mete them out gradua...
2024-01-27 05:50:25 +0000 UTC View Post
If anyone would like to move to Portland, I am selling my house pretty soon. I know this is a long shot, as the rest of the nation seems to see Portland as the place where the four horsemen curry a...
2024-01-26 18:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
In which more players come into the picture, and the mission gains clarity.
2024-01-26 00:00:53 +0000 UTC View Post
I was supposed to degloss and primer the “new” cabinets for the kitchen, so sweet mistress avoidance led me down the basement staircase instead. I think that was three hours ago. Now it’s tim...
2024-01-22 01:57:33 +0000 UTC View Post
From time to time, given the omnipresence of loosely-holstered smartphones, we manage to squeeze off a photograph whose subject, composition, and tone are good enough to merit placement on a piece ...
2024-01-21 18:00:19 +0000 UTC View Post
What could be cosier than spelling it with an "s"? Why, typing away about my deeply idiosyncratic tea routine on a chilly winter's day, of course, as the ice-slicked sidewalk glowers gray and menac...
2024-01-20 18:41:54 +0000 UTC View Post
You've probably read this before, but I had to teach myself how to draw the characters by hand in about 2008 (the strip launched in 2001), so I could sign books for the Great Outdoor Fight release ...
2024-01-20 00:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I am in the post-norovirus (Wikipedia: “Winter Vomiting Disease”) stage wherein gratitude and joy at the opportunity to once again simply walk the earth course abundantly through me. Breakfast ...
2024-01-19 18:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
This illustrated story, told by Nice Pete, is about the time he rode a bicycle to a nearby town and treated himself to a nice meal. However, it was uncomfortable for some.
A first draft of th...
2024-01-19 01:37:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Good week to you, Chochachos! We've had our once-in-a-decade cold snap here in Portland, with a low so low it froze my favorite pipe to the kitchen, and also prevented me from attending a deeply-at...
2024-01-15 19:26:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to a strip written entirely from under a quilt. It is going to be seventeen degrees Fahrenheit in Portland this weekend, and that is not something we do well here. (Add it to the list.) But...
2024-01-12 18:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
I'll post the four parts of this personal history over the next two weeks. It's the story of one of the larger journeys I took during my big hiatus, which began in 2011: founding an all-natural sod...
2024-01-12 17:45:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Click, tap, or astral project your way to the Achewood Patreon Digital Bookshop - whether or not you're a subscriber, y...
2024-01-05 21:13:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome back! That run of twelve old-style three-panel strips was fun to make, but what did you think? Might be interesting for some weeks to be a couple of those, spaced out, instead of the one bi...
2024-01-05 18:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Author's Tier! Here's a private look into a space I wasn't sure I wanted to share yet — my new art studio, and the unfinished pieces within. Typically I only like to show work that's completed, b...
2024-01-04 21:27:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy New Year! This is the second of two eight-page color stories I did for MySpace Dark Horse Presents way back in...the files say January 2009. Fourteen years ago. I wanted to put something juic...
2024-01-01 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Author's Tier! Please enjoy these glimpses inside the holiday week I just spent down in California with the folks. Highlights included a great plate of black bean chow fun, and a MANSION. 2023-12-29 21:23:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Day 12/12. That's it, folks! The weekly comic returns January 5, 2024. Thank you for making it possible to bring Achewood back to life — it never would have happened without your support her...
2023-12-26 18:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Day 11/12.
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Day 10/12.
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Day 9/12.
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Day 8/12.
2023-12-22 18:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Ramses Smuckles, while typically a high-minded and clean-living man himself, must occupationally rub shoulders with common figures whose ways welcome physical filth. As such, we present the first i...
2023-12-21 20:01:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Day 7/12.
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Day 6/12.
2023-12-20 18:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
If you were wondering why there has been scant-to-nil cooking content here so far, it's because until very recently, the kitchen in Maison Extreme Fixer-Upper looked like photo number two. It still...
2023-12-20 17:28:02 +0000 UTC View Post