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LOUIS: So, you know that magnet on the fridge where I put all my rejection letters?
It fell off. It couldn’t take the crippling weight of my failure.
ELAINE: Oh, honey, don’t be sad!
They make bigger magnets!

LOUIS: You know how people say you have to fail a lot before you can succeed a lot?
Well, at this rate, I’m on track to be POPE.
ELAINE: Now you’re being SILLY.
You’re not INFALLIBLE enough to be POPE.

LOUIS: I just hope this is all BUILDING to something, you know?

[[Front page of THE MASTHEAD HERALD, many years later.]]
HEADLINE: DEAD AT 84: Owner of World’s Largest Fridge Magnet
[[One picture shows a much-older LOUIS, the other a gigantic magnet with a tiny man standing beside it for scale.]]

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{{Alt-text: Kenmore Erects Giant Fridge To Memorialize Him, Self-Promote}}

#451; In which Harv finally Succeeds transcribed by in

LOUIS: So, you know that magnet on the fridge where I put all my rejection letters?
It fell off. It couldn’t take the crippling weight of my failure.
ELAINE: Oh, honey, don’t be sad!
They make bigger magnets!

LOUIS: You know how people say you have to fail a lot before you can succeed a lot?
Well, at this rate, I’m on track to be POPE.
ELAINE: Now you’re being SILLY.
You’re not INFALLIBLE enough to be POPE.

LOUIS: I just hope this is all BUILDING to something, you know?

[[Front page of THE MASTHEAD HERALD, many years later.]]
HEADLINE: DEAD AT 84: Owner of World’s Largest Fridge Magnet
[[One picture shows a much-older LOUIS, the other a gigantic magnet with a tiny man standing beside it for scale.]]

{{Header: do better at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: Kenmore Erects Giant Fridge To Memorialize Him, Self-Promote}}

#451; In which Harv finally Succeeds transcribed by in

LOUIS: So, you know that magnet on the fridge where I put all my rejection letters?
It fell off. It couldn't take the crippling weight of my failure.
ELAINE: Oh, honey, don't be sad!
They make bigger magnets!

LOUIS: You know how people say you have to fail a lot before you can succeed a lot?
Well, at this rate, I'm on track to be POPE.
ELAINE: Now you're being SILLY.
You're not INFALLIBLE enough to be POPE.

LOUIS: I just hope this is all BUILDING to something, you know?

[[Front page of THE MASTHEAD HERALD, many years later.]]
HEADLINE: DEAD AT 84: Owner of World's Largest Fridge Magnet
[[One picture shows a much-older LOUIS, the other a gigantic magnet with a tiny man standing beside it for scale.]]

{{Header: do better at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: Kenmore Erects Giant Fridge To Memorialize Him, Self-Promote}}

Kenmore Erects Giant Fridge To Memorialize Him, Self-Promote

#451; In which Harv finally Succeeds

  — October 14th, 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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