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[Nabubrush]

Eh, if people can bitch about Onstad, then people can bitch about the other guys, too.

[Arachno-capitalist]

I, for one, don't give a shit. This whole thing reads like a break-up letter. Onstad is asking for 'A Break' because absence makes the heart grow fonder, we should see other people, etc. Its a good one, but any man worth his salt knows how to word craft a break up letter to an insane partner who criticizes comma placement and demands constant attention.

[pmcd9]

As I drove around this afternoon I came to a realization.  This is a wonderful opportunity for us.  Now that the book is closed on Achewood it's time for us to concentrate on the archives. 

It is, as Onstad pointed out in his Fuck You letter, it's a huge body of work and it's never, to my knowledge, been given a scholarly analysis.  I'm envisioning essays about certain story arcs or specific strips of note.  Psychological profiles of the characters can be written, and their interactions with other characters.  Maybe dust off that achewiki that's been lying around useless for years.  Or maybe someone could register amomentarydiversion dot com and then the real fun could begin.  Oh boy!

Or we could at least reread the archives.

[Doc]

At last Molly can take her rightful place in academic circles as literature's greatest villain.

[KeithHernandez]

Great idea there Paul.

I don't really get most of you.  What did Onstad do to you all?  He just stopped making comics, or am I missing something?  Because he didn't tell you?  Does it take that long to check a website every few days?

Thanks for the hella good comic strip Onstrad.

[jay-ell]

Two things:

1) I love the idea of Dinosaur-Comixing some old strips. We used to make fan art all the time, remember those days? When we were young and the world was new and a hacked copy of Paintshop Pro could be downloaded without fear? Let's do this again. It was fun.

2) I also love the idea of picking a strip each week (hell, we could go through the archives in order if we wanted to) and just hell of discussing it to death. We got enough scholarly types with nowhere else to blow off steam to keep it going (the Title X thread is proof enough of that). I say, do it and I'll show up for the ball.

Bonus thing: I have discovered lately that when I'm annoyed with people I start to sound, inside my head, like Asherdan. Wombat, your figments are cross-pollinating, no more spicy food before bedtime.

[wombat]

2) I also love the idea of picking a strip each week (hell, we could go through the archives in order if we wanted to) and just hell of discussing it to death. We got enough scholarly types with nowhere else to blow off steam to keep it going (the Title X thread is proof enough of that). I say, do it and I'll show up for the ball.

Bonus thing: I have discovered lately that when I'm annoyed with people I start to sound, inside my head, like Asherdan.

This made me actually laugh out loud.

Only one strip a week? Why not one per weekday. We can create the ideal world where Achewood updated every day.

[smick]

That would be about the funniest thing in the world... in terms of concept but not in terms of execution.

A Taiwan-style government-in-exile Achewood generated by fans while the creator is busy charging three bucks a month on scans of his doodles on subscription cards while waiting in the dentist's office.

It would be a bad idea and probably disasterous but the concept is hilarious.

Web idea:  Chop up all of the achewood panels.

Chop up all of the dialogue.

Make a web database spit them out daily in a William S Burroughs cut up machine fashion.   Maybe a moderator pulls 10, and puts the most cohesive one up.

[jay-ell]

This made me actually laugh out loud.

Only one strip a week? Why not one per weekday. We can create the ideal world where Achewood updated every day.

One strip a week, but the idea is that there would be multiple versions of it. So with enough of us posting, it could update every day, several times a day. 

Imagine!

Edit: This is what I get for not reading my own quoted sentences. I thought you were talking about item #1. Blurgh.

[wombat]

These are all brilliant ideas.

[greenkoolayd]

Hey, I just realized my tiny chances of being able to get another Ray Prime Time Lime shirt just got even tinier.

schmegma and blort!

how much trouble d'you think someone would get in if they made their own merch?

[wombat]

That is not a brilliant idea.

[Doc]

I bought Great Leader's bootleg GOF shirt a few years back and wore it till it basically fell apart.

[miles]

I, for one, don't give a shit.

This.

Like, I have never gone out of my way to meet writers whose work I admire. If they are jerks, I don't want to know it. Why spoil the work because you get cross at the person?

This (although maybe I'm the only person here who can separate the art from the artist? Mostly I really don't give a shit).

I don't really get most of you.  What did Onstad do to you all?  He just stopped making comics, or am I missing something?  Because he didn't tell you?  Does it take that long to check a website every few days?

Thanks for the hella good comic strip Onstrad.

And especially this.

A lot of bands that I've loved have fizzled out without explanation or announcement, or maybe were even dicks about it, and though I've been bummed that I won't hear any new music from them, it's not like I felt I put my life on hold. Same thing with Onstad.

But I get the frustration, and I guess he could have been more gracious about it.

Anyway, make some of this shit happen!

[theinevitable]

the problem, the more I think about it, is partially the tension between all of the "art can be a job, writing can be a job, it is a real job. Would you do your job for free? no. You wouldn't. So give me money"
and everyone else in the world's experiences of what a job is like. You don't get your fancy "I'm an artist" excuses AND your "this is my job, it is a real job" arguments.

either artists are mystical beings struck by moonbeams, and sometimes they run out of moonbeams and have to journey inside of their own dreams, or they aren't. not both.



I sometimes do have trouble separating the art from the artist. I don't know. I guess I could imagine a world in which Steve Albini made music that I didn't hate, even though he is the biggest cockbag in the (music) universe. There have been points where I have tried to listen to his music and understand what makes it good.