In this penultimate installment: my probationary acceptance into the Life; the specter of inevitability trudges back and forth through our kitchen, daring anyone to make eye contact.
2024-08-22 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Ray, Since you aren’t making music anymore can you comment on the feeling of being “afraid” of retirement? I look forward to the day I have enough of a stash to tell people to fu...
2024-08-21 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, all the places this story arc didn't go — too complicated, too long, too predictable, too traditional — are in here somewhere. My favorite thing that I couldn't use is the...
2024-08-16 19:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
My complete "note dump" on all the planning and unused lines/directions for this arc posts in the Author's and In-Universe tiers at noon today!
The slippery thing about luck ...
2024-08-16 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
In this installment: health makes me beautiful, I ponder my triumphant return to the gene pool, and I have fantasies.
2024-08-14 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Ray, heading to Vegas for a nerd convention (the kind that RB might go to, to brush up on his skills at deleting Yahoo dating profiles) and am concerned, what's the best place on the str...
2024-08-13 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Strip 0077 was not actually called that, but that's how it feels, doesn't it, friends? So good to see two old Smuckleses floatin' through the Egyptian Math Portal together at last, goin' to live th...
2024-08-09 19:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
As always, experimental but ultimately unused panels, as well as other pieces of my artboard lagan, will post at noon Pacific today in the Author's and In-Universe Tiers.
My...
2024-08-09 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Some quality time with Sammy Hagar Davis, Jr; Aaron gets caught in the crosshairs.
2024-08-08 17:39:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Ray I've been spending a lot of money on my vinyl collection recently and I've got a sort of concern about it. Like I really enjoy looking at the album art and the whole ritual of pla...
2024-08-07 17:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
I couldn't have Ray and his grandfather discuss their respective dookie AND keep the joke about "a study on gas in the male," so the latter won out, especially because it ties in with the song abou...
2024-08-02 19:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
In a move designed for the real Heads, I’ve hopped over to a more suitable format for this week's installment. Sometimes the fellows just have so much to say that speech bubbles are the wrong too...
2024-08-02 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostIt's that time again: post your advice questions for Ray here, and he'll answer them as soon as he has good wisdom / a lot of exogenous moon juice in his veins! No matter what category of ick you'r...
2024-08-01 14:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
In this installment our cast grows by aged pixies, nursery-rhyme poltroons, and a manager with revolting breath.
2024-07-31 23:14:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Ray, Lately I seem to be the victim of a sort of self-induced insomnia. There just don't seem to be enough hours in the day! So by the time I reach the end of it I don't want to just l...
2024-07-31 18:36:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Since the answer wasn't profoundly important, I used ChatGPT to answer a question about cocaine usage. It occurs to me that it may seem cute how little I know about cocaine usage. I can own this. M...
2024-07-26 19:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
(Clippings from this strip publish at noon in the In-Universe and Author's tiers!)
Please join us as we pause from the current storyline to enjoy a playful, old-school type of strip ...
2024-07-26 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
If you're interested in this shirt design, please comment!
We're getting things in shape for a relaunch of the Achewood shop -- new goods, new shipping partner (meaning...
2024-07-25 18:33:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Hot on the heels of installment one: I get taken under a "real" cook's wing!
2024-07-23 22:28:10 +0000 UTC View Post
About five years ago, facing a health issue and in need of medical insurance, I took a job as a cook in an upscale grocery store — upscale on the face of it, anyway. Kitchens will be kitchen...
2024-07-20 21:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The advanced reader will also note that Ray and Antonyne swing their arms identically, in the floopy Smuckles way, when walking. That is a separate curse which will not be explored in this storylin...
2024-07-19 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Outtakes post separately at noon in In-Universe and Author's Tiers!
I've included all the Antonyne Cheops Smuckles (aka Rustmouth Chafings) backstory st...
2024-07-19 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Oni Press — before the great Belly-Uppiting Act of 2021, which killed the Achewood Complete Canon project, among a very many other things — had intended to release a paperback version of The Gr...
2024-07-17 18:06:08 +0000 UTC View Post
READER: I'm usually doin' three answers per post. But is that too much reading for you? I like your experience of me to be crisp and punchy, not some big boring-ass obligation. Tell me in t...
2024-07-15 19:50:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Until now, we have known precious little about the life of America's second-most cursed bluesman: Antonyne Cheops Smuckles, aka Rustmouth Chafings — father of Ramses Luther Smuckles, aka Rod...
2024-07-12 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Outtakes and scratchboard notes post at noon today in the In-Universe and Author's tiers.
I recently realized that this is actually part five of the arc, but I cannot be too ...
2024-07-12 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostI am excited to announce that I have made a fifty-second, single-camera video in which I demonstrate a recipe from Achewood Cookbook 2, for a decadent chocolate mousse that isn't f...
2024-07-11 20:58:48 +0000 UTC View Post
I was fishing about in the archives for some artwork for this week's strip, and wound up in completely unrelated waters. This often happens when I go digging in the archives, which are organized ab...
2024-07-08 19:41:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Todd's urine had a different sound when knocking at the door of the magical underworld this time. Why? Also, the purist will note that Rickenbacker basses and guitars are only made in the USA, mean...
2024-07-05 19:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Outtakes from this strip run at noon today in the Author's and In-Universe tiers. Upgrade today to read those and so, so much more!
Much in the Achewood world is l...
2024-07-05 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post