22nd Anniversary Flashback: 8-page Color Comic (Patreon)

Twenty-two years ago today a little otter stood atop a drum machine manual, and in so doing tipped this ponderous universe into motion.

Of all the levers I have pulled with great and specific hope in my breast, this was not the one I thought would become the reference frame for my life. And though at times this mercurial bull has bucked me to the dirt, it has also carried me through essential passages that I have loved, and of which I am cautiously proud.

Thank you for believing in Achewood enough to support me in making it for all the perpetuity I have left in me. To get to do this for real now, after two decades of fits and starts and struggle, is—and I do not say this lightly—heaven.

Please enjoy this 8-page color comic I wrote for Dark Horse back during the second Bush administration. Despite its age, I think you will find that its themes have not yellowed upon the shelf.

C