BELINDA: Get your wife anything good for Christmas, Bob?
BOB: Not yet! Our family doesn't celebrate it for another THREE MONTHS.
BELINDA: Oh, you on the, uh, the METRIC calendar or something?
BOB: Nah, it's just...the CATTLE CALL is TOO MUCH. STORES are packed, MAIL takes forever, TRAVEL'S like twice the price...
BOB: And the actual DATE of Christmas is arbitrary anyhow. So we just bumped our celebration from the December solstice up to the March equinox.
We still take time as a family to exchange gifts and commemorate the birth of Christ, but we do it FREE of media nonsense and logistical hassle.
BELINDA: HUH. And GLORIA'S on BOARD with this?
BOB: Well...I sorta forgot to TELL her about it?
Let us just say that yesterday was "AWKWARD."
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She will NOT be putting the snowman decorations back in the yard for Marchmas.
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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