Achewood

Savage Critic and "Reading Comics" author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY * Stuffed animals ^ Alternative energy sources % The perils of maturity * ACHEWOOD VOL. 3: A HOME FOR SCARED PEOPLE Oh, Chris Onstad...

I have long wanted to have my own theme sketchbook to bring to conventions for artist commissions, but I've never hit on quite the right idea. ComicsAlliance contributor David Wolkin put me to shame at the recent Comic-Con by coming up with an amazing idea: A "Rise of Arsenal" #3 theme sketchbook featuring Arsenal and a famous cat, a nod to the infamous issue where the one-armed Roy Harp

Chris Onstad's "Achewood" has often explored the concept of useless commercial products whose very existence diminishes us all, but few have had the resonance of the fake smart phone testicles he first imagined in a 2006 strip titled "Ana-Tomix nuts for your phone...

The much ballyhooed announcement of the Apple tablet finally arrived this Wednesday, along with the slightly unfortunate name "iPad" and details on what will essentially be a giant iPhone, but with no phone. There's been a lot of speculation about what this will mean for the digital distribution of comics, much of which was rounded up at CBR and later at Newsarama, while Rich Johnston tr

Chris Onstad is back at Vice -- this time not to give an interview, but rather to write an instructional piece titled "The Achewood Guide to Negotiating Takeout While in an Argument with Your Significant Other." Think of it as basically an "Achewood" short story...

The news of Michael Jackson's death last week seemed to make all other news come to a screeching halt, even overshadowing the passage of a landmark climate change bill. But wait, there's more: It also only prevented the reunion of Megan Fox and salmon-shirted rose boy, and pushed webcomic creator Kate Beaton off the cover of The National Post...

Somehow I've been slowly turning into a webcomic junkie. It started innocently enough with the lovable video game dorks featured in Penny Arcade--no doubt some of you are a part of the site's 4 million monthly readers. It was a nice little five-minute hobby, logging onto the site three times a week to check in on my good pals Tycho and Gabe...