For Christmas 2004, Chris Onstad was in the middle of a storyline and did not acknowledge Christmas directly. He did provide a gift to readers on Christmas Eve, in the form of a page of guitar tabliture for a song from the Achewood world. Written by a man who has gone insane on moonshine, about a boy who wastes his life looking through a shop window until he too goes insane. The song is called “Sullivan’s Bear and Dried Bird.” He follows it up with a strip where Ray needs to tell Charlie Brown that he is in fact, dead, and died when Charles Schultz did years prior.
For Christmas 2005, Achewood went on hiatus and Onstad posted a bunch of photos from around the house, and some from his sketchbook. It’s good stuff. But he did do a Christmasy strip the week before, and that’s what you see above. Click on it to keep reading btw, the punchline is great.
– Christopher