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Re: How did you first find Achewood?
« Reply #15 on: January 16, 2008, 08:39:43 pm »
I can't recall how I originally found achewood.  Most likely someone posted a link in the arstechnica lounge.  The link in my bookmarks folder says July 22, 2004.
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Re: How did you first find Achewood?
« Reply #16 on: January 16, 2008, 08:53:38 pm »
The links to Parking Lot is Full are showing up as blank.  I've never heard of Parking Lot is Full, but as I love PBF I really want to see these.
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Re: How did you first find Achewood?
« Reply #17 on: January 16, 2008, 09:49:23 pm »
Quote from: pmcd9 on January 16, 2008, 08:53:38 pm
The links to Parking Lot is Full are showing up as blank.  I've never heard of Parking Lot is Full, but as I love PBF I really want to see these.

Here you go.  Good stuff but hell of dark.
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Re: How did you first find Achewood?
« Reply #18 on: January 16, 2008, 10:07:55 pm »
Quote from: pmcd9 on January 16, 2008, 08:53:38 pm
The links to Parking Lot is Full are showing up as blank.  I've never heard of Parking Lot is Full, but as I love PBF I really want to see these.

How weird, they definitely worked before.  The two I was referring to was the Cabbage Patch one or the Garfield/Odie one.
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Re: How did you first find Achewood?
« Reply #19 on: January 17, 2008, 12:20:28 am »
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Re: How did you first find Achewood?
« Reply #20 on: January 19, 2008, 07:32:43 pm »
I turned left at Greenland.

Or was linked by one of the newsposts at Penny-Arcade.  I remember absolutely hating the fact that Onstad didn't always use the correct punctuation at the end of sentences, but I thought it was still pretty funny.  Plus, I couldn't predict it, which is basically my standard for good entertainment.
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Re: How did you first find Achewood?
« Reply #21 on: January 19, 2008, 07:46:24 pm »
Quote from: Lister on January 19, 2008, 07:32:43 pm
Plus, I couldn't predict it, which is basically my standard for good entertainment.

That is a damn good standard.  I learned about it from a good friend.
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Re: How did you first find Achewood?
« Reply #22 on: January 22, 2008, 05:56:46 pm »
I'm pretty sure I was reading something that had a Dumbrella forum and I found it there. WiGU?
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Re: How did you first find Achewood?
« Reply #23 on: January 22, 2008, 09:43:58 pm »
A friend of mine lent me one of the books - I think the fourth one - whichever one starts off with Ray and Philippe visiting Mark Twain in the time machine.
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Re: How did you first find Achewood?
« Reply #24 on: February 03, 2008, 07:52:45 am »
Y'know, I thought I answered this question in an older thread, except now I can't locate the thread. I found Achewood through a link from another webcomic, and thought it was amazing. This was in the early days, probably late 2001/early 2002 or shortly after the strip began.

Also I am at 2800 posts.
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Re: How did you first find Achewood?
« Reply #25 on: February 04, 2008, 04:09:27 pm »
Quote from: Lister on January 19, 2008, 07:32:43 pm
  Plus, I couldn't predict it, which is basically my standard for good entertainment.

My standard as well.

I got to Achewood through the talkbass forum. Someone had posted the strip with Teodor saying anyone can bass.
http://achewood.com/index.php?date=01042007
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Re: How did you first find Achewood?
« Reply #26 on: February 04, 2008, 05:40:07 pm »
I alternate between thinking that the bass is so easy, and so hard.

I guess what it comes down to is, it's easy to play the bass (in, say, a rock band) and be completely boring and yet sufficient.
But there are things you can do with the bass that are awesome and add a lot to a song, and these are things I cannot pretend to know how to do.

and then, you know, Mingus. good lord.
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Re: How did you first find Achewood?
« Reply #27 on: February 15, 2008, 11:08:53 am »
A coworker of mine left the company to work at Checker Book Publishing a few years ago, right before Checker Book was set to print a volume of Achewood comics. The former coworker said that the deal fell through because Onstad demanded too much creative control.

"What the hell sort of webcomic does this guy run where he needs that sort of control?" I wondered.

Now I know.
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Re: How did you first find Achewood?
« Reply #28 on: February 15, 2008, 02:06:55 pm »
OMG, what the hell kind of book company do they run where it's mysterious to them that a creative person wants creative control?

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Re: How did you first find Achewood?
« Reply #29 on: February 15, 2008, 04:29:56 pm »
Well... I'd assume that publishing companies look at webcomics and think that they're doing their creators a HUGE favor even considering publishing them, you know.

Such as "this guy can't even get in an alternative-weekly newspaper and he's making demands on us?"

I'm not saying its right but it is understandable. If you are a dinosaur about media, you could well think... well, Jesus, we are offering this dude Actual Money and Actual Exposure, he should be sucking our cocks as he signs the contract.

Which probably IS the case for 99.44% of webcomics, really.

However, dude seems to have a merch-driven business model that actually works as a dayjob on a certain scale and so he does not have the desperation built in that "Generic Gamer Comic #43622" or "Look, Ma, I Can Draw Kind of Japanese-ish" has.

I do understand their miscalculation... from a certain point of view.
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