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ELLIE: No matter what I do, I can’t seem to stop my students from cheating on tests!
DORA: Oh, I know. It’s institutional at this point. It’s not a matter of IF, but HOW.

DORA: Last semester I had a student devise an elaborate scheme where he reduced vast swaths of the textbook into a shorthand notation that he printed onto his hands with ultraviolet ink… …then he put a tiny L.E.D. blacklight in the bridge of his glasses. Much harder than simply studying, of course.

DORA: So he sits there squinting at his hands the whole time, trying to decode the textbook… really a totally unworkable solution. He barely managed a C-plus.
ELLIE: Oh my gosh! You didn’t just flunk him for cheating?
DORA: Well, it was a cryptography class.

{{header: perfect score at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: class motto is ‘try it, let’s see what you got’}}

#414; In which there may be Shortcuts to Success transcribed by in

ELLIE: No matter what I do, I can’t seem to stop my students from cheating on tests!
DORA: Oh, I know. It’s institutional at this point. It’s not a matter of IF, but HOW.

DORA: Last semester I had a student devise an elaborate scheme where he reduced vast swaths of the textbook into a shorthand notation that he printed onto his hands with ultraviolet ink… …then he put a tiny L.E.D. blacklight in the bridge of his glasses. Much harder than simply studying, of course.

DORA: So he sits there squinting at his hands the whole time, trying to decode the textbook… really a totally unworkable solution. He barely managed a C-plus.
ELLIE: Oh my gosh! You didn’t just flunk him for cheating?
DORA: Well, it was a cryptography class.

{{header: perfect score at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: class motto is ‘try it, let’s see what you got’}}

#414; In which there may be Shortcuts to Success transcribed by in

ELLIE: No matter what I do, I can't seem to stop my students from cheating on tests!
DORA: Oh, I know. It's institutional at this point. It's not a matter of IF, but HOW.

DORA: Last semester I had a student devise an elaborate scheme where he reduced vast swaths of the textbook into a shorthand notation that he printed onto his hands with ultraviolet ink... ...then he put a tiny L.E.D. blacklight in the bridge of his glasses. Much harder than simply studying, of course.

DORA: So he sits there squinting at his hands the whole time, trying to decode the textbook... really a totally unworkable solution. He barely managed a C-plus.
ELLIE: Oh my gosh! You didn't just flunk him for cheating?
DORA: Well, it was a cryptography class.

{{header: perfect score at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: class motto is 'try it, let's see what you got'}}

class motto is 'try it, let's see what you got'

#414; In which there may be Shortcuts to Success

  — June 6th, 2008

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20 years ago (in photocomic form)

June 9, 2026 by David Malki !
A young David Malki !, Steve Carey, and Ryan North, June 2006.

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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