So I’ve been reading this web comic Achewood for about 3 months now.  I started at the begining, and I’ve read all 6 years worth of comic in that time.  Early on I got wrapped up in the characters, especially Lyle and Todd.  After really getting into it, my faves are Ray and Roast Beef.  I can’t forget Phillipe, of course, or Teodor, but it’s the writing that kept me coming back.  It feels kind of strange being caught up on these, there are so many memories.  The Great Outdoor Fight, Ray’s Toilet Party, and Beef’s Magic Underpants, all cracked me right up.  I guess I’ll have to be satisfied with the frequent updates, and each charachter’s blog.  That’s right, each one has it’s own blog.  Fucking brilliant.  I also read Riceboy, Dresden Kodak, and XKCD.

So I finished Page 4 and I think I’m getting better with each page I draw.  You can really see how I pirated my own images here to get that montage feel.  Hopefully the next page in the strip will be the ending,  and I can get that web comic plug-in working.  I’d like to set it up as issues, where you can do the whole web comic “previous/first/last/next” thing.  Baby steps I guess.  I’m also now trying to learn HTML and CSS so that I might be a little better at this whole thing.  Anyway, enjoy the page, and also check out my new Foodie Blogroll in the footer of every page at mrjeffmccarthy.com.

  If there’s one good thing that has come out of this broken arm, it has been learning Photoshop.  The past few weeks I’ve spent countless sunny hours sucking up this program like a blood starved creature of the night.  When I wasn’t drawing or compositing, I’ve been reading web comics, which inspired me to start drawing my own.  Now I have another way to express my love of food; by chronicling the misadventures of a hero whose head is made of butter.  I’ve posted the second page here on mrjeffmccarthy.com for my loyal readers to enjoy.  Maybe one day I’ll enough content to start another site exclusively for all my cool drawings.  With this cast coming off on Wedsnesday, and me hopefully going back to work, I’ll only be able to play around with the computer alot less.