Achewood, the Ignatz Award–winning online comic that brings cutting-edge food chops to its daily routine, is now—in its own small way—breaking news. Halloween, in cartoonist Chris Onstad’s San Francisco–area neighborhood, has recently become an opportunity for unscrupulous adults to pimp their livelihoods … by taping business cards to candy.
In a brilliant comic strip, Onstad exposes the trend and expresses (in a string of obscenities too foul to be reprinted here) his own feelings about it. If you’re a connoisseur of potty talk and/or a passionate Halloween traditionalist, this is a strip worth reading.
Because peole take you more seriously when you swear.
I agree with the feelings, but I really hate the strip. Then again, I can see how anyone would want to raise hell in that situation.
I heard businesses in Bernal etc. hand out candy by setting up tables outside their stores because no one knocks at apartments to go trick or treating in the traditional sense. Is this what is happening here? If yes, its fair game.
If its people in their apartments advertising then its deplorable.
Good to see Achewood get some love here. I love the strip, and gather that the business card on the candy bar is not unknown.