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Oni Press to Collect Chris Onstad's Achewood as Omnibus Editions

Oni Press has announced plans to release omnibus editions of Chris Onstad's bestselling comic (which started as a webcomic), Achewood, starting next June. The comic was not only a New York Times bestseller, but also inspired phone testicles, according to a 2010 Bleeding Cool report. A press release contains more details.

Oni Press adds one of the most celebrated webcomcs to a diverse catalog of print collections of online comics and creators from around the world, with the announcement of an all-new omnibus series of Chris Onstad's Achewood!

The New York Times Bestselling comic returns to print in this massive new omnibus series, collecting the complete comics from start to finish! Volume 1 includes the first 600+ strips in chronological order, alongside a wealth of rare additional material including recipes, short-fiction, maps, posters, never-before reprinted comics, and much more! Edited by Toronto Comic Art Festival founder Christopher Butcher, this gorgeous new hardcover collection features an all new Achewood short story by series creator Chris Onstad, and a foreword by The Magicians author Lev Grossman.

Tremendously influential and darkly hilarious, Achewood quickly and expertly subverts the genre expectations of the daily strip with razor sharp with and deeply human explorations of depression, relationships, masculinity, death, and selling your soul to the devil to become a billionaire.

Along with a quote from Christopher Butcher, Founder of Toronto Comic Art Festival and editor of the book:

I've been a fan of Achewood since the first year, and I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss heading to the site to look for new strips every day or two. One of the best surprises for me in editing this book is just how much new Achewood there is for me to enjoy, as the strip was joined by Ray's advice column Ray's Place, by the blogs, by the zines, the prose work, the recipies, the rare strips for other websites, and so much more. It's an absolute trip to get to read all of Achewood chronologically as I help to put this volume together, and I think fans old and new are going to love it just as much as I do when it arrives in print next summer.

While Oni publisher James Lucas Jones adds:

I am incredibly proud to add Chris Onstad and Achewood to the Oni Press library. Onstad's daily strips paved the way for many webcomics creators, and showed that you could build a sustainable audience for serialized comics outside of the traditional periodical publishing model. These strips remain every bit as irreverent and insightful today as they were nearly 20 years ago, and these meticulously assembled books promise to expose a whole new generation of readers to Onstad's dark and witty brand of humor while giving existing fans the classy archival treatment they already know this work deserves.

Look for the first volume in June 2020.

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