There was zero clipboard content generated by strip 0100 so I picked a random date and, happily, there was a strip for that day, which I could mine instead.
It was very satisfying to mindles...
2024-12-13 20:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
The second image is a preview of what the usual noontime "making-of-this-strip" drawing board looks like — always available to tiers 2 & 3!
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2024-12-13 18:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostHello, Author's Tier!
My friend Lev Grossman, brilliant author of The Magicians trilogy, as well as the new and stupendous (I've actually read it) Arthurian novel 2024-12-12 19:14:02 +0000 UTC View Post
[Dear Readers: Ray went long answering his first letter this week, so we're publishing it as a standalone piece. The usual three-letter format will return next week, because a lot of people ne...
2024-12-11 18:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
This strip made me miss Cornelius. I feel a Cornelius Friday coming on for Strip 0100. Whoah! There have been ninety-nine new Achewood strips! There was a time not so long ago I was certain such a ...
2024-12-06 20:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Extras from this strip post at noon in tiers 2 & 3!
In panel four, Roast Beef is referring to the popular copulatory position you may know as "missionary." Why is ...
2024-12-06 18:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
"Spoiler alert. Ray Smuckles ain't too much on top of his science fiction, but he does privately wonder if AI can finally invent a version of him that don't blubber." —R.B. Kazenzakis, in...
2024-12-04 18:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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2024-12-03 18:01:37 +0000 UTC View Post
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I've spent the last year building up...
2024-12-03 05:49:42 +0000 UTC View Post
(Okay, okay, here's the verse I was mulling over when asking why Bible passages are always freighted with metaphors. I ultimately decided to keep this discussion out of the author's notes for s...
2024-11-29 20:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
As always, excised panels, rough drafts, and unused gems of dialogue from this strip post at noon in tiers 2 & 3!
It struck me when all was said and done in this strip th...
2024-11-29 18:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
For our wedding rehearsal dinner in September, Hayden asked what sort of outfit would be appropriate. I said something upscale but not formal. He sent a snapshot of him wearing a sheer long-sleeve ...
2024-11-28 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
If you are enjoying the Sauce Diaries Project, please say so in the comments, or just tap Like! Otherwise, I will assume everybody has grown tired of watching me preen around. ...
2024-11-22 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
The Christmas holiday looms near at the horizon, which means I am busy gathering oddball lines and visuals — like a squirrel with his walnuts — for the Twelve Days of Christmas mini-strip ...
2024-11-22 20:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Early drafts of this strip appear in tiers 2 & 3 at noon! This month, the upper tiers also featured Ray's Place, an interview with Cornelius about the afterlife, several installments of...
2024-11-22 18:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
One of my ongoing quests/hobbies is to recreate the best of the 2024-11-22 04:14:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Ray, what’s your stance on having children? Who, when, where, why or why not, how many, etc. —Sam J.
Sam,
Consider it like this: folks been havin’ children ...
2024-11-21 18:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Why do you dress the way you do? I like chatting with people about this topic, so please comment. Okay, on with today's piece:
I have yet to receive so much derision for my ...
2024-11-20 22:00:35 +0000 UTC View Post
So many people* replied to yesterday's post begging for photographs of me wearing clothing** that I gave in to the pressure and put these together. You will have noticed in my various...
2024-11-19 23:07:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Good morning. It is 11:24am as I begin this, this momentary diversion on the road to whatever it is you and I are doing this afternoon. This is probably nothing more than a journal entry; or is...
In this installment of the "What is Shangri-La" series, Roast Beef interviews the one denizen of Achewood who might actually have some advanced and well-considered ideas on the matter.
Previ...
2024-11-16 18:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
As you can see, this script landed on the page in near-final form, with minimal fiddling as it was worked through the strip production process. The bulk of the work this week involved inventing how...
2024-11-15 20:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
The workspace/draft version of this strip posts at noon in Tiers 2 & 3!
There are two main things I noticed about this particular strip.
One is that no one mentions...
2024-11-15 18:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
AUSTIN, TX (Achewood News Wire) — A Texas Cho's storage unit was recently burgled to the tune of all his life's many precious things, excepting these three Cocoa Buddie...
2024-11-14 02:20:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Roast Beef checks in with Philippe after the American Presidential election, and they hatch a plan to unite America.
2024-11-09 18:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a pretty good peek behind the scenes, in my humble estimation — First you see (on slide 2, sorry) as the idea changes radically from the initial Big Game Hunter direction, and then y...
2024-11-08 20:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Two pages of unused panels and scripts from this strip post in Tiers 2 & 3 at noon, as does a new Roast Beef + Philippe interview on Saturday at 10am Pacific!
I wi...
2024-11-08 18:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
®@¥, I am a man of humble muscle mass who is looking to change that. The problem is that I have basically no idea what to do in a gym. Do you suggest taking group classes so someone can t...
2024-11-07 18:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Several weeks ago, the dear Lord in his Vaulted Elysium sat upon his crystal throne, an elbow upon the great Knob of his knee, a fist beneath his pensive chin. (From which flowed a white beard.) Un...
2024-11-06 22:24:28 +0000 UTC View Post
This strip was almost entirely created on the original artboard, so there is not a lot of evidence of its creation, other than the large trace, and my recollection that instead of a "hippo's ass fr...
2024-11-01 19:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post