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Merry Christmas! 5 Days Of Intense Posting!

Christmas!!!!So even on my best days I’m no Robot 6 or Comics Reporter, and on my worst I’m like one of those sites where you can’t tell whether or not my site is still active. About 90% of the time I’ve got a post in me, but I just don’t have the time to get it out… or the inclination to deal with the follow-up discussion that post will create (seriously, I’ve got a POD post that’s like 90% written and I just don’t want to post it because I don’t want to have that discussion… but I digress).

But it’s Christmas. And I really am fortunate for a lot of the things in my life, and as strange as it sounds (even though this is the ‘naughties) my blog, and all of you folks that read it and link it and talk about it, is one of the things I’m truly grateful for. So I’d like to, if I may, try and give back to all y’all with a full week of posting, of what this blog would be like every single day if I had my druthers. While my druthers are unlikely to appear until I get fired from The Beguiling or leave TCAF (neither is likely, thankfully), I figure that I can pull off one week of this… even if it’s going to be the busiest week of the year.

First up? Those of you in your feed reader will notice all of last week’s DORK strips have gone up, 5 new ones in a row. Reading at the website? Scroll down. A whole bunch of Evan Dorkin goodness (meanness?) all at once.

As for the rest, sit back and enjoy, as I endeavor give you a near-perfect week of Comics212, everything you love and hate about the site, firing on all cylinders, until Christmas day.

Best,

– Christopher

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December 13: Achewood Week Finale

And thus concludes Chris Onstad’s journey through the holidays, December 24th 2008.

It would stand to reason that this year’s Christmas strip is right around the corner, so make sure to start following the strip at http://achewood.com.

As for why I’ve chosen this rollercoaster of emotions, good-to-bad-to-confusing, to showcase on my blog? Well, honestly, I have a complex relationship with Christmas myself. I don’t want to go into the details, but the music, the bright lights and decorations, the joy of the season is something I embrace because the darker parts of the holiday are always creeping around the edges. I know a lot of people who can’t stand Christmas, because for them it represents bad times. I empathize. It’s a bit like the song Fairytale of New York I think? People with problems singing them away in the hopes of something better… Achewood is a pretty marvelously complicated piece of work, that touches on all of those sorts of feelings and many more besides. Hopefully you get it. Hopefully at no point during this week does my family call to worry about me (this is being written a week prior). Hopefully you all have a good holiday.

And I promise, for the rest of the month it’s nothing but brightly coloured cartoon and comic fun. 🙂

– Christopher