[[A man with a thick mustache and beard on his cheeks is sitting under a tree with a book and pencil.]]
Author: I'm going to write a story about a character who feels the way I feel!
Author: Middle class, educated, with seemingly every advantage, but who still feels aimless and dissatisfied...
Author: Someone with MY lived experience will be able to shine a penetrating dramatic light on the problems that arise when you don't really have other problems.
Author: That turmoil is real! And as deeply felt as any other!
Author: Why are heroes SUPPOSED to always be "mature" and "capable"? A cartoon fiction! MY world is full of whiners and petty idiots! I'M going to pull back the curtain to show how THIS half lives!!
[[The author is presenting his book to a young woman for review.]]
Woman: I know I'm only on chapter two, but WO are all these characters self-absorbed twits
Author: well uh yes they are of course intended to be uh unsympathetic
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{{alt-text: these poor people, shoehorned by society into leading lives where they are unable to be anything but annoying}}
these poor people, shoehorned by society into leading lives where they are unable to be anything but annoying
The computers tell me it was 20 years ago, June 9, 2006, that I arrived in New York for my first-ever comic convention as an exhibitor, MoCCA.
It was an important trip for me, a milestone in what would go on to become my career.
I wrote a little reminiscence on Patreon (free/unlocked) — including a first-since-then reprint of the photocomics I made at the time, documenting the trip!
Read the rest here: [ 20 Years Ago (In Photocomic Form) ]
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