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What would make you join the Achewood Patreon? (Patreon)

Published:
2025-08-12 17:07:22
Edited:
2026-02-14 20:18:14
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2025-08

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Hello, beloved Free Member of the Achewood Patreon! I am terrible at marketing (history as my witness), so I just wanted to ask you directly

Hello, beloved Free Member of the Achewood Patreon! I am terrible at marketing (history as my witness), so I just wanted to ask you directly: (1) What feature, content, service, etc., would help you subscribe? (2) If it's not a lack of features, what keeps you from subscribing?

Please comment below, and I'll be in there reading and responding throughout the day. I sincerely appreciate any and all of your thoughts! You're clearly interested in smart, offbeat humor — I just want to learn how to share what's in here most effectively with people who would truly love it. I believe this is some of the best satire/humor/cartooning produced today, and I think it would create a lot of happiness, reflection, and escape for the right people. Thousands of steady, current subscribers clearly agree!

As always: Free preview of lots of material from all three tiers!

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Martin Smith

Hi man. I keep intending to subscribe when I know I’ll have some free time to dive in to everything then forgetting. I don’t need any new features to subscribe or anything. Just keep sending reminders and you’ll get me in eventually.

Roberto Ryano Bondo

Hi Chris. A couple times a week or so, a short Achewood comic of the old 3- or 4-panel type. Though, I don't know if that format works with our gang any more. I'm at a point in my life where what I really want from a Patreon email is a 2 minute distraction from the mundane horror that I endure every time I open my inbox or my mailbox. Extra Fabulous Comics is pretty good at this (even when it's awful, at least it's some slightly entertaining nonsense). Hope that helps. We love you and have all of your books, signed (except for the great outdoor fight, which we have, it's just not signed).

Corrine Bredin

It's not you, it's me! Or possibly it's an ungrateful(/undeserving?) wider world - the business where I make my own personal money has taken some hard kicks in the nuts lately and we are in austerity mode(/rocking in fetal position on the ground). I'm listening to ads during my music now and all, like a peasant or someone from the 20th century. I hope to be back soon, though (assuming we don't successfully outsource all human functions and interactions to chatbots in the nearer-term future, in which case I suppose I'll be here in the form of past scraped comments serving as inputs to a transformer somewhere.)

Mitch Davis

Hi Chris. I fully intend to subscribe when I have a few more dollars. Knucklehead fan from olden times, I tell everyone what an inspiration you've been. Truly I want the comic archives to reread conveniently at home. Looking forward to the new merch.

Fred

Hey Chris, This'll sound counter-intuitive maybe but: in my opinion, more stuff ought to be available for the free subscriber tier. Like, for example, an archive of all the comics older than (insert value here) months. The content creators that I have a paid subscription to do not paywall their (main) content. This makes my relationship with them not transactional, which I prefer. Another perk for the free tier would be some form of access to the Discord: I know for a fact that you have a great and wholesome community following you, I used to hang out on the various Facebook groups seven or eight years ago (until I quit that damnable website). Great people, probably the only thing that kept me there for so long. But I'm no marketing whiz either and I have no idea if this would be shooting yourself in the foot. I also have to add that I sorta dislike Patreon and, whenever possible, migrated to other services such as Ko-Fi to support other folks. (Aside: do you still make Cocoa Buddies?) Huuuuugs,

Simon Garner

Honestly… I’m skint. And I guess it is a weird mental block about making the leap to a reasonable price point for new content…? That is more of a function of where I’m at now versus where I was when I fell in love with Achewood (still my favourite thing on the internet ever). But, I’m a dad of three now, and I guess I got out the habit between you going on hiatus and procreating repeatedly ..? It’s inertia.

Bartolomeo

An annual subscription, at a decent discount. Otherwise I'll just pop in every once in a while, sub for a month, catch up, unsub.

Louis Sullivan - fonkoncle

honestly better finances is pretty much my answer, my job vanished earlier in the year.

Staniel Timothen

I keep missing the discounted rates. By the time I see the email it's been a day and a half.

Amelia Hall

Hi Chris, I've been reading Achewood since like 2004? It was a big part of college friendships for me, reading the archive kinda steeps me in that headspace (in a really nice way). I'd love to go back to paying for the Friday comics, but I'm a (gov't funded) scientist who is likely losing my job soon so cash is tight right now. Job market is tight too, so I'm trying to shore things up to hunker down if I need. I hope to be back soon to support you.

Michael

Just writing to give you my honest position: I, like I'm sure most here, was "part of" the original run, and I have to say that that "part of" aspect was really powerful -- I get that this could be the same way, maybe even moreso given the membership aspect, but I am skeptical that this will have the same "feel" as the old times did. I think I expect the storylines to be more contrived, less free-wheeling, probably because it's just a different dynamic when you're producing in this kind of outlet.... I still have your personally inscribed books and a couple of your paintings; I value these for many reasons, but part of that is as mementos (heh, the freshmaker) of an organic shared experience and admiration of your creative oeuvre. I still hit achewood.com relatively frequently, just panning around the old strips, but would it feel the same in here? Maybe it would, maybe I should try it. I'm just saying these are the ideas that counter any motivation to subscribe -- though I'm tempted to do so now just to see...

Zak

Another middle aged person who was a college-aged fan in 2004. This post really has me thinking about why I'm not paid yet. Because I generally do want to spend money to support artists who have provided joy, and you have provided a lot. (And the only Patreons I support are essentially other people keeping the formats of the 2004 internet alive.) I did get burned on some merch back in the day, between that and the hiatuses I wonder if there is a part of me that is just "afraid to love again." I don't mean that to be an attack, as I genuinely have no hard feelings. It's more about my own introspection. I find myself wanting to spend less time on screens. Online community now means little to me. If I could send you two hundred dollars and you mail me b&w print outs of all the content spiral bound at Kinko's, so I can read it in bed, I'd do it. All this said, the free samples will eventually get me as well. I'm deep in the marketing funnel. The story of the backyard fort almost got me, except I had to immediately spend the rest of the day with my daughter.

Kamil

I’m one of those occasional monthly subscribers to catch up on strips and the “canon” extras. The making-ofs and old rarities don’t pull me in that much, I just like the characters and their voices. In the old days I really liked the blogs and twitter accounts of characters. Maybe nowadays some in-character Discord channels for them, for a quasi micro/nano/femto blogging, occasional thoughts or quips, would make me want to retain Discord server access for longer.

Darrow

I got burned on the complete collection preorder (not as hard as you did, I'm sure) as well as basically all revivals, ever, of beloved media. The first few posts on the Patreon (the ones that were/are available for free) didn't vibe with me the same way your older work did, and I thought maybe this was another Futurama situation, where "the magic" just isn't there anymore, at least for me. I'm not super interested in making-of stuff, but if I saw newer blogs and comics and thought "oh, we are so back", I would subscribe. Someone else in the comments suggested "free after X time", but that's a lot, and I agree your existing body of work on achewood.com is that. Maybe "one comic every X weeks from the Patreon is available free" would work - if I saw "oh the newest Achewood is out, and it's amazing" that would entice me. P.S. I wrote this before reading the rest of the free 3-tier preview, so who knows. Maybe I'll sub right after this. P.P.S. If there's any chance of the complete collection happening, I would happily pay way too much for it P.P.P.S. The "Rabbit Ambulance" sweater you sold on your merch store is still to this day the warmest and most comfortable sweater I've ever found, and people comment on it all the time. I'd love to buy more as gifts / know where you got it made

Corwin Vimes

This comic was downright formative for me back in the day. I thought you had stopped writing it? If you are continuing, HOW HARD DO I HAVE TO THROW MY MONEY AT THE SCREEN. --Roast Beef in his late 30s

Becca Hale

Hasn't this comic been dead for, like, a decade? Only saw this because I was looking for a specific strip to share (shrinking the motorcycle window and making it jump the Mount Everest wallpaper) and was surprised to see an active Patreon link at the top. Immediately I got excited and opened the archive to see how much has been added, but it doesn't look like anything has been posted on the website since 2016. Honestly I have no interest in going through the titles of locked Patreon posts to get a rough idea of what you've been up to. If you want to hook me, new stuff on the website would be the way to do it, even if it's timegated on the Patreon for X weeks/months/years. Switching entirely to a third-party paysite is a very anti-soul thing to do to a soulful comic. Achewood has always been my favorite webcomic and I think about it often. Edit: To phrase this differently: How can you expect people to find and subscribe to this Patreon when there's no incentive to even look at the Achewood website?

Ken Barraclough

Perhaps a friendlier viewing experience? I've tried a couple of times now subscribing and the viewing experience was far from easy for me to just scroll or click through each comic/post. If it was similar to the good ol' Achewood.com, we'd have a deal.