Your Achewood Free Tier Update: Ray Gets a Butler With A Dirty Secret (Patreon)

Fresh off a P.G. Wodehouse binge, I wrote a longish series in which Ray engages a butler who bears an uncanny resemblance to Jeeves. Or perhaps Jeeves himself was ripped from the manual for the archetypal British butler. It is not for me to say, although I am sure it is for many others to say, and quite vociferously, with all the right ad ibidems. But to date I have not been angrily labeled a, "Godless thief, with eyes that suck the very ink from a child's note to Santa," so all is well. (And the dirty secret is not how freely I cribbed from the model of Jeeves; it is Waterbury's own fresh secret, which I will not spoil for you.)

The storyline takes myriad asides to check in with other characters and their concerns, but does actually conclude. Closure was still a novel and untrusted narrative device to me, at the time.

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Every Friday in Tier 2 ("In-Universe" Tier), two hours after the main strip, I post a full page of the best of the voluminous B-Roll panels, edits, and writing outtakes. Here is the top half of last week's:

Also, among many other things, I invited the Author's Tier (Tier 3) on a photo tour of my neighborhood. Here we start in the rain garden which I built for free using only a tremendous amount of shoveling, rocks from Craigslist, and rocks from Facebook Marketplace:

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