Achewood Free Previews, Town Newsletter #1 (Patreon)

Hello, Friends of the Library! I'm launching this newsletter to share behind-the-curtain views of all things Achewood, including plenty of free previews of member material! If you're considering joining the vibrant Achewood community, I want you to get a good look at the huge set of offerings.

Recent comic, "0144 — Roast Beef's Massage" (Tier 1, Fridays, 150 strips and growing)

I hang in the comments every Friday after the strip posts and chat with everyone for a while — a true high point of my week. It's a healthy and positive community of fans old and new, and a wonderful respite from the rest of Internet Discussing. Please come in and join the conversation! I'd love to get to know you.

Also, by all member accounts, the new strips are scratching the same itch the old ones did! And I've never missed an update in two years:

Last Month in the In-Universe Tier (Tier 2, Weds + Fri, 229 posts)

All kinds of canon and off-canon oddities post in Tier 2 (which also includes all Tier 1 benefits), such as this thing that probably could have been a comic:

Also in Tier 2, every Friday I post a "making of this strip" strip. It goes up two hours after the main strip, and has garnered its own sub-cult-following:

Tier 2 also includes Ray's Place (Ray's advice column, which you actually write in to and get answers from Ray), the Achewood Serializer archives, and the Achewood Assetbar archives.

Last Month in the Author's Tier (Tier 3, M-F, 205 posts)

• More pages from my old hand-drawn non-Achewood comix book "BonAire and Balanesçu"

• Eight (and growing) carefully edited, real-time European travel diaries, between 500-1100 words each (full sample post attached as PDF at bottom of this newsletter!)

• Photo tours from my studio, life, kitchen, and more

• A 38-page chapbook from 2010 (several chapbooks have posted already; 11 will post in total)

• New Philippe shirt preview, and previews of holiday shop artwork

• Includes all of Tiers 1 & 2.

Tier Three has the greatest variety from the broadest sweep of my life, including plenty of autobiography, family background, myriad non-Achewood writing projects, columns, Achewood history, travelogues, cooking & recipes, my "fashion sauce" diaries, and innumerable other personal ride-alongs.

Seen enough? Come in and join the fun!

You can join for as little as one month, and read the entire archive! Of course, I'd really love to have you as a member of the community, where you'll finally get to connect with like-minded people over Achewood and much else (there is also a full Discord for all members). The Achewood Patreon is so active — both with new content and member activity — that it's quickly become a happy, healthy momentary distraction on the road to the grave, with no bothersome noise from the outside world.

Still want more free previews? Check out my new button that I got! It leads to a big collection of a dozen reader favorites from all tiers. (My button salesman was amazing)