Raymond Quentin Smuckles from Achewood, courtesy of Chris Onstad

Achewood Simpsons Vice : How are you able to create such a diverse cast of characters and understand them so thoroughly?
Chris Onstad: Which character do you relate to the most?
Roast Beef’s tragic childhood feels like it has to be based on yours. Did you grow up like Roast Beef?
Did your mom leave you at a laundromat on Christmas Eve?
Did you get caught trying to steal Playboys from Waldenbooks?
Penthouse Did your wang ever fall out your shorts while riding your homemade skateboard down stairs?
Did your parents keep you in a bread bag as a baby?
Do you have parents?
Is Charley dead or in the past?
Lost How are you so good at avoiding clichés and being original?
Achewood Achewood Does story continuity ever bug you? Like, you wake up at night thinking, “What about that thing that happened?”
When you coin phrases, does seeing those phrases outside of Achewood fill you with a mixture of pride and dread not unlike giving birth to a son?
Achewood I made a flyer for a gay party that incorporated the phrase “Let’s show this room how gay it can get!”
A lot of Achewood stuff riffs on the olde-tymey. Are you yourself into olde-tymery?
Letters from the Earth What were you doing before you made Achewood? What’s up with expanding the brand?