do YOU love achewood, too?

dude went from "depression-prone" to "actually depressed"--what can u really say.

Yeah, that was interesting. xp

he moved to portland, people. not getting out of bed sometimes is sorta SOP up here iirc.

re the drawing: i think cartooning is something he kind of fell into, as a way to write strange ornate very in-character dialogue. (although i think there are lots of places in achewood where his clip-art minimalism can be really striking.) in the last year or two (probably from beef's wedding on) the drawings have become less and less relevant, except in those occasional weird chris-ware-aping things. he's also done a lot more prose work elsewhere which i'm glad of because i'm sure it makes him happier than the strip does, but personally i'm not a huge fan of his prose -- think his linguistic gift lends itself mostly to voice and character, and when he's writing as himself it just reads like mid-level "shouts and murmurs" (writing for which btw he told me a couple years ago was a big ambition of his).

re portland: ha yeah i'm up here too and i kind of worried about him when he announced he was joining us. notice that he does way more complaining these days about hipsters/memeculture than he used to in california.

anyway when i say "he should stop doing the strip" what i really mean is "i hope he succeeds in finding something more fun", and i'd totally watch the achewood tv show, if it ever happened.

when he's writing as himself it just reads like mid-level "shouts and murmurs" (writing for which btw he told me a couple years ago was a big ambition of his).

otm; kind of lol, mostly sad

clay, you beat me to that exact post by 31 min

mine mighta had a cuss or somethin i guess

if i want to love this can i just read randomly or do i need to start someplace?

lol knew I was missin somethin

either way, don't move to pdx kids

if i want to love this can i just read randomly or do i need to start someplace?

― toastmodernist, Saturday, January 8, 2011 12:00 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

well really you should start at the beginning and read straight through

i don't know How to start at the beginning, the wesbite is an insane mess. I do want to though.

http://m.assetbar.com/achewood/uua7X4JNk

start here and click forward. go with god my friend.

u lose the alt text this way, but still

just getting around to the chapbook and uh dang

yeah, that shit is GRIM

― predeep natsvitika (forksclovetofu), Friday, January 7, 2011 3:08 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^otm

dude went from "depression-prone" to "actually depressed"--what can u really say.

― call all destroyer, Saturday, 8 January 2011 04:17 (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

um did I miss something or is this just basically projecting and kind of nagl

i think you missed something

really tho? I mean when he does talk about his personal life it's in oblique terms iirc... I don't have access to the subscription stuff if that makes any difference

i mean there's been enough little scraps of evidence that i'm pretty sure that it's part of the story.

in any case i have no idea how that would be "projecting" on my part.

I remember him saying in an interview he didn't have depression, he was just writing Roast Beef off friends he knew.

Onstad just needs to put King Chochacho's medallion back on.
It was bittersweet seeing lil scrying Phillipe @ the start of most recent comic. Haven't seen that little otter in far too long.

i love him

oh hey it came back

wow, that is some abstract shit

I liked it

I did too, but I'm trying not to get my hopes up.

was it really anymore abstract than your average pearls before swine?

Really looking forward to his next interview.

p lame, imo

i liked it too

Until he starts updating this thing at least weekly, I'm not really sure he's back.

http://s.assetbar.com/one_asset?b=S~cfd4f5a32442ff25864a8357965235a41&a=S~846

lol "use rss"

man, that sounds like an ending and i don't mean that negative at all but man that sounds like an ending
"Like a sparrow birthing a clenched human fist" is a nice turn of phrase.

perhaps it's for the best, honestly

yeah I'd much rather he kill the thing off with dignity and start new on a project he would be clearly excited about than limp along going forward.

http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/03/21/chris-onstad-achewood-hiatus-interview/

http://farmergeneral.com/2011/03/30/the-secret-menu-vol-1/

The uniqueness of Morgan's character and his ability to energize a team -- and a city -- have been the chronograph of what makes the Brewers tick. But Wednesday night, we might have witnessed something that could turn the fairy tale into an Achewood-like graphic novel with a bad ending.

http://espn.go.com/espn/commentary/story/_/page/jackson-110908/nyjer-morgan-antics-do-more-harm-good-milwaukee-brewers

lol that is really weird.

also scoop jackson is still the worst.

I looked at "achewood dot com" today because nothing fills my heart with more joy than a long-dead web comic displaying its last update, an unfunny mess that came after an erratic tapering off period, an unfunny mess optimistically promising lots and lots more updates! Updates all the time! He's got it on a randomizer, though, so if I wanted to see the one last futile promise of lots more content...it's there somewhere. Somewhere in my heart! If I ever commit suicide, that's the kind of note I'd leave. "Lots of updates, I promise!"

whoa heavy

really dude?

Please help Achewood keep the servers on! The hiatus is nearly over, but we need your help to find the dawn. http://bit.ly/b0bEoi
23 Aug

apparently he's shutting down the fanflow now.

that's been linked to on the main page for about a year and a half now

couple new ones, eh

loved the first one, second one reminded me of when he went nutso, is there a third one yet?

there's actually a third and fourth one by now

The mouseover texts have been amazing. "Nobody is calling anybody Michael right now. Get it together."

i am excusing myself to the bathroom. to . . . create achievements.

I HAVE A PRINCE ALBERT