I spent about five hours in my new basement studio yesterday, and it was enough time to get back in the flow and feel free within the tools. If I take too long off, I get awkward and hesitant with ...
2024-11-01 17:42:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Process panels and writing from this strip post at noon in tiers 2 & 3, as always!
When I was in sixth grade I was invited to a birthday slumber party at a friendly gutt...
2024-11-01 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Good afternoon Ray, My 4-year old won't go to bed. He doesn't seem to mind the concept, but rarely lays down without trying to negotiate his way out of it, if not mild-to-medium intensity r...
2024-10-31 17:24:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Because I was unwisely given the responsibility of planning the Rome portion of our honeymoon, its end-date did not fit accurately into the overarching calendar of our travels, and we wound up with...
2024-10-29 23:01:42 +0000 UTC View Post
I was very torn by the "Bread is afraid of the gravy" vs "blotting up coffee" choice. I like them equally, for different reasons. Which one edges out the other, for you?
2024-10-25 19:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
(Complete outtakes from this strip post at noon in tiers 2 & 3!)
If you've ever received a startlingly generous portion of breakfast meat at a restaurant, you know how it can com...
2024-10-25 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Ray. I have always been a "dress left" guy but since turning fifty I think that dressing right is a younger look. Do you have any exercises/regimen that will help me with my transition...
2024-10-24 20:39:10 +0000 UTC View PostYour lowly editor here, at the behest of "comedy mogul (?) and impresario Ray Smuckles," asking you to post your advice questions for Ray here. He'll probably stop monitoring incom...
2024-10-23 19:38:44 +0000 UTC View Post
So I told you the story, in the caption to this strip's primary release, of the strange boy from the woods, who tried to pull a really b-grade Deliverance on me one day. The rest of t...
2024-10-18 19:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Now that the jet lag has concluded its solo and returned to its seat in the orchestra pit of accumulated sleep damage, I am cautiously settling back into "everyday life." For me that's a fairly rou...
2024-10-18 18:35:58 +0000 UTC View Post
I was recently catalyzed to remember, I know not by what, a weird boy I had met when we first moved to the woods. His family lived in a bit of a cabin — as distinguished from a home by its r...
2024-10-18 17:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
There have been a few other Prime Time Records albums unearthed here, but I don't think this one's seen the light of day since its original run date. Ray seems to have been deeply affected by the p...
2024-10-15 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Lauren enjoys riding bicycles, and I am experienced in this modest elective*, so we thought it would be diverting to join a tourist’s riding group around Rome.
“They’re e-bikes,” she ...
2024-10-14 18:46:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Careful readers will notice, hidden among the creative off-cuts, the colorized image of an ermine-clad Philippe holding a luminous trident. Who can tell everyone what it's from? (No, it's not the T...
2024-10-11 19:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
The process/B-roll strips which post two hours after this comic are back! They're available to the Author's Tier and In-Universe Tier — upgrade for a mont...
2024-10-11 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome back, me! There's still the usual Friday strip coming tomorrow; today's doodle was simply inspired by the schools of leaves which shimmer down from the trees as they enter their well-deserv...
2024-10-10 20:15:41 +0000 UTC View Post
A glimpse into the mind of R. Beef Kazenzakis. Co-starring: a leaf blower, a free day, and a chest cold.
2024-10-08 23:45:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Note: We have returned home, and I am now catching up with the last five days of the trip, which got so busy I couldn't adequately document it in real-time. Several more installments will follo...
2024-10-04 19:55:53 +0000 UTC View Post
This comic is from an actual double-take I did recently. In reality, I had misread the shirt. I don't know what it actually said, but the idea of drinking so much coffee each day that the belly...
2024-10-04 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
For the next two weeks, while we're away on our honeymoon, I'm running three new strips a week, M-W-F. These are ultra-classic, single-row Achewood strips like you saw in 2001...
2024-10-02 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Some many years ago, an Australian journalist named Tim Blair commissioned Ray Smuckles to write a series of columns for Sydney’s Daily Telegraph. Ray, true to form, didn’t really...
2024-09-30 19:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
This one gets my vote for the Most OG Style Achewood of this entire 6-strip mini-run. Do you think it compares to the year one mentality?
For the next two weeks, while we're away on...
2024-09-30 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
So much happens in Rome, even when just slipping around the corner to buy the morning bus ticket, that documenting every remarkable little moment would somehow begin to take more time than the trip...
2024-09-29 16:28:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Rome.
Arisen, eyes ringed red
Displeased but not abusive WhatsApp
Sent to rental manager
Massimo will check the A/C...
2024-09-28 18:10:40 +0000 UTC View Post
For the next two weeks, while we're away on our honeymoon, I'm running three new strips a week, M-W-F. These are ultra-classic, single-row Achewood strips like you saw in 2001...
2024-09-27 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
I would complain about every meal for the last seven days being just cheese and bread, but all my hair is growing back! This makes me very happy.
LEAVING THE COAST<...
2024-09-27 06:49:21 +0000 UTC View Post
dear ray what are the best ingredients to keep on hand for when the party goes late and people might not be able to handle proper cooking but you as the host dont want guests to have to res...
2024-09-26 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Pizzeria San Francisco Tramonti, Costa D'Amalfi
IG: @pizzeria_san_francisco_tra
Alfonso’s electric golf cart whirred us down the winding mountain road from Z...
2024-09-26 06:39:28 +0000 UTC View Post
For the next two weeks, while we're away on our honeymoon, I'm running three new strips a week, M-W-F. These are ultra-classic, single-row Achewood strips like you saw in 2001...
2024-09-25 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Alfonso Golf Cart, who hustles tourists around the cliffside town in a spanky open-air four-seater, quoted us 50€ each way to a secluded four-table pizzeria up in Tramonti, run by a former Englis...
2024-09-25 04:21:37 +0000 UTC View Post