Today I got a package at work – a tee-shirt I had ordered arrived.  It had taken a while, but the folks at Achewood had warned of the wait.  Most of their merchandise is made-to-order.  So I had no aggro anyway, but since Chris Onstad had included a drawing of Phillipe thanking me for my patience, why I was well chuffed.

Achewood, that’s right.  Best damned comic, print or web.

So this can go next to the drawing of Cerebus that Dave Sim made on an Oregonian article about himself, way back when he was visiting Portland for a convention and coincidentally had dinner at the restaurant I used to toil in.  Though I was too shy to ask him for his autograph directly, so one of the waitresses did so and consequently the inscription is to the restaurant, not myself.  No matter; I own it.

So, Achewood: Best Comic, Great Merchandise, Courteous Creator.