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Ray's Drawing Therapy Wednesday, June 28, 2006 • read strip Viewing 60 comments:

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Hey, that might help ME get over MY fear of Charlie Chaplin! Thanks, Achewood!

It's weird, two nights ago my friend told me how he was afraid of Charlie Chaplin. I guess an impersonator approached him as a child in Vegas and freaked him the fuck out when he was a child. Maybe this also happened to Ray?

Or maybe.. just maybe.. it's Cartilage Head.

Hmmm...that Chaplin bears a suspicious resemblence to some figure from Ray's past...

Absolutely. But where does the violin fit in?

Maybe Ray was too damaged to remember it was a saw.

Seriously, why is Ray afraid of violins/a violin? Téodor does not bother asking.

Violin strings were once made of cat gut.

only cat gut wasn't really cat gut, they just called it that, I didn't check it on wiki to find this out, I don't know where I know this from, but anyway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catgut . However Ray probably does not know this . . .

Could it not be the cursed fiddle that caused him to sing death metal lyrics and pass out?

And that was a banjo. thus proving I should reread the archives before making brilliant leaps of logic that just later prove to be moronic.

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I'm digging the chubby/lame ration here.

rations: meager

You have died of cholera.

What an impossibly handsome snag. A chubby for you.

Man I hope I never get mail from the diabetes results center. You don't even want to open that.

Actually diabetes takes about five minutes to test for. I do not have it as of my last trip to my GP.

The last time I had blood work done, I got a message on my answering machine that I "needed" to call the clinic. I freaked: I "needed" to call? It was probably diabetes. No, it was my liver, the booze was finally doing me in. Or maybe it was my prostate. I was going to have to have major junk surgery.

I had to call them about five times before I got hold of my doctor's nurse, and then she had trouble finding my file. I'm on hold listening to muzak thinking my file has already been forwarded to the surgeon who is going to hack on me. Finally she finds it and tells me my test results were good. I "needed" to call to hear that?

apparently so, if you were in such a state.

What makes it great is "Postmaster: Find this man ."

What the hell is in Danville?

Huh?
It's a small town in New Hampshire.
Where did someone mention a Danville?

oh, so now you think you're Clever Dan.

Fry 'em up, Dan!

listen up, Jor-DAN...

LIMOZEEN IS COMING TO DANAPOLIS!!

//end

*hug*
I know. It's tough. It's tough.

5 for the last panel.

Man, I seriously fear diabetes like that too. ALL my grandparents have it.

You know Charlie Chaplin entered a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest and got 2nd place?

Also Hitler grew his stache like that because he was a bigtime Chaplin fanboy.

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Nah, Chaplin wore that mustache as "the Tramp" in films two decades before Hitler rose to power.

Although Chaplin did make use of the similarity in 'The Great Dictator,' his first talking film. (Excellent flick.)

They were born 3 days apart. If only Chaplin had agreed to Hitler's request to be a stunt double in his early films.....

Nah, he cut it smaller because it needed to fit under a gasmask.

Third, actually.

Why does Téodor have claws? Isn't he a teddy bear?

I have wondered this many a time, myself.

Then again, he also has genitals. Tiny, tiny genitals.

These two factors, not to mention the ability for face-removal, make the Teodor model one of the worst-selling around.

It has scarred more children than I care to mention. Also I do not have the requisite figures to back up my claim.

Where does it say that Teodor is a stuffed toy? He's a bear. Granted, he's no bigger than a cat, but a bear none the less. In my mind.

... You've not been here very long, have you?
Go back and read the archives.

I have, actually. But my perceptions are all garbled from reading the back story in the books. I know that he is based on Onstad's stuffed bear, like several other characters. You have to admit it's all very blurry.

Man, has it really been more than a year since the last DIABEETUS reference?

RAY IS SO AFRAID OF DIABETES

U.p.:Up.

Alt text is a winner.

"The drawing you didn't see is him making a bad first impression on George Clooney"

That would be horrible. It is a back of the mind frightfulness.

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agreed

relative newcomer here, but in the past week i have gone through the entire archive up to this point (all read while at work). this is probably not my favorite strip ever, but it is the one that made me finally sign up and comment, because i actually think i might try this therapy.

Let me know if it works. I'm sick to hell of memorizing losing lottery tickets.

Can't you just hear the eerie voice saying "Ch-haaaaaaa-plin-nnnnnn..."?

Because I sure can!

Totally. Like the sound a ghost would make when mocking you.

Can you really put a stamp on an envelop that reads "POSTMASTER: FIND THIS MAN"? Is there an extra charge for "P:FTM" delivery?

Postmaster: Find This Man delivery can only be ordered by the President of the United States. It is very special.

And only if the president can prove beyond reasonable doubt that diabetes is involved.

i wonder if somewhere there is a drawing of a letter that isn't folded into perfect thirds ?

Today's Blogs

Ray: I owe the world a damn favor.
Philippe: FUN PARTY! Everyone's invited!
Lyle: hwna fk'd that happne a WEEK?!
Little Nephew: they Chinezed my azz!

Ray's therapy is not working.

Shelling out on a therapist only to have them make you memorise random numbers and shit is the saddest thing.

noice av