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This Week in the Author's Tier
🕑 Added 2024-01-15 19:26:17 +0000 UTCGood week to you, Chochachos! We've had our once-in-a-decade cold snap here in Portland, with a low so low it froze my favorite pipe to the kitchen, and also prevented me from attending a deeply-attractive pig roast. Sure, 16 degrees Fahrenheit won't impress about 2/3 of the country, but that just ain't something we do here. We stay home, terrified of how bad the other drivers will be. (At the best of times, our fellow drivers are peaking on a 100-milligram edible called Danny I'm The Enemy while watching Mr. Beast give away moderately-resourced island nations; add icy roads and low visibility, and we have sad headlines for days.)
Coming up in a week or so is a piece I started writing (with illustrations) for an Oni Press softcover rerelease of The Great Outdoor Fight, which was to be handed out at all the summer 2020 comicons, to create hype for the massive anthology series. As we all know, man plans god laughs, and none of that actually happened. The piece itself chronicles a rough interpersonal period between Ray and Roast Beef, following their victory at the GOF. Look for it very soon. (I'm evenly divided on whether this should be canon, so for now it's only going in the Author's Tier.)
I also haven't forgotten I owe you all the part 3 of the Netflix saga. That's been reopened as well, with many fun photos.
I'll also release part 2/4 of the Portland Soda Works autobiographical history this week. This was a long and deep core personal journey. Writing it out like this creates the only official record of this massive experiment, and also shows me what qualities it brought out in me (not all admirable), and what those few special souls who arose along the path shared that I worked to keep. (It definitely helped me confirm that all marketing agencies are full of shit, but don't go thinking the current story with Tina and Téodor is from that particular experience; no no, I've been through both sides of that mill many times.)
Question for you: I'm currently releasing the prose pieces here as PDFs. But is that a good format for you to read them, or would you prefer the text just be pasted in here, like this paragraph? I'm using PDFs so I can make them look nicer, but I recognize they might be a pain in the neck to read on devices. Please comment!
Comments
Rishi Kundi
I do like the PDFs.
Shawn Ritchie
I prefer the text posted here on Patreon due to Preview's confounding ongoing lack of a dark mode even in this the year of unholy chaos two thousand and twenty-four.
Thomas Williams
If it isn’t a pain, both PDF and text posted here would be nice — the text posted here would be MUCH easier for me to read on my primary device. Thanks for asking!
Micah I Thomas
Agreed that PDFs are worth it
Peter Huelster
PDFs are good thank you please keep using them
Sedric And Charlie
I prefer the PDF format. There's an officiousness about it that leads me to ponderances whereas I might skim over a straight-pasted chunk of text and let it pass by
Miles McMahon
.pdf is a-okay and but goddamn that Beef tee concept is hella good.
Stavro
That Darlene shirt design is cold as hell
Paul Dunn
PDF is an excellent choice, IMO, and looks so much nicer.
Ryan Tierney
PDFs are good for me!
Doug Kavendek
I can say that for sure for me: having the plain text also pasted into the post increases the chance I will read it by about 600%. I know my limitations and how I'll "get to it later" when there's attachments and I straight up never do. Even now I'm feeling a lil shame for some of the recent ones I still haven't gone back to.
Julie (HiDeeHoGal)
I like PDFs but I'm always on a Chromebook. And I very much want the Sadness Hardship Tree tee.
Jay Williams
I agree- the extra effort in terms of formatting and embellishment is much appreciated and makes each piece “feel like Achewood” instead of merely Patreon (grateful though I am to Patreon for hosting the Art).
braap
PDF kind of a pain on mobile but not that bad
Matt Mitchell
You gotta drip those pipes when it gets that cold! Also pdfs are fine w me.
Jay Williams
I actually prefer the pdfs (but am grateful for any format)- a pdf feels like a chapter in a book and is often sufficient for me to properly review and consider while ensconced on the porcelain convenience, allowing me to rise with the satisfaction of having accomplished two things instead of just one, lending momentum to my day.
Nicole Smith
I love the PDFs to read later, but text here is the easiest for me to consume and hype my friends up with
Jacquelyn R Walters
I think the pdfs are good. I've been reading them on my phone with no issues. I like that I have them downloaded, should Patreon ever shuffle off.
Aaron J. Rushton
Plain text for prose pieces would be easier yes but only by a matter of three taps of the thumb so no huge expenditure of energy on my end for the PDF
fancymatt
IMO you are a very gifted designer and the way you format your PDFs elevates your written works. I wouldn’t like to read them using Patreon’s default styles even though I admit that it’s a bit more convenient on mobile.
