Chris Onstad

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2009

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Chris Onstad is the artist behind the web comic Achewood. There's a new collection of the strip, called "The Great Outdoor Fight."

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Martha from Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
0:03.5	The Sound of Young America is an independent production, supported by listeners like you
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0:14.7	Live on tape from my house in Los Angeles, I'm Jesse Thorn and this is the Sound of Young
0:19.3	America from MaximumFun.org.
0:43.0	It's the Sound of Young America, I'm Jesse Thorn, my guest on the program is Chris Onstad.
0:48.1	He's the creator of one of the world's most popular online comics called Acwood, which
0:54.0	was recently turned into a book called The Great Outdoor Fight.
0:59.9	Also not that long ago, named the Top Graphic Novel by Time Magazine, despite the fact that
1:06.4	it is not a graphic novel at all, but is in fact an online comic strip, which I think
1:12.4	makes the honor even greater.
1:14.2	Chris, welcome to the Sound of Young America.
1:15.8	Hi, thanks for having me in.
1:17.1	Did someone call you from Time Magazine and tell you that you were one the best graphic
1:21.4	novel award?
1:22.7	I got an email and they said, hey, are you ready for a phone call and I said, well, goodness,
1:26.8	what's this all about?
1:27.8	And they said, are you ready for a phone call?
1:30.2	Usually I'm not, actually, ready for a phone call.
1:32.8	Everybody goes to voice mail.
1:34.0	I get my head together and I call them back the next day.
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