SOL: I've finally DONE it, Morty! I've PAID OFF the mortgage.
Taken TEN LONG YEARS of scrimpin' and savin', but I finally OWN the old hovel free and clear.
MORTY: Same here! It's a great feeling, innit?
SOL: IMPOSSIBLE! You've been delinquent for MONTHS!
MORTY: ABSOLUTELY. But come Christmas morning, WHAT do we see but EBENEZER SCROOGE himself DANCING down the avenue, handing out CANDY and NECK-RUBS! We can't even get the "lo" out of "Hello" before he's TORN UP our debt RIGHT there in the STREET!
MORTY: Food poisoning. TOTALLY insane.
By noon his ENTIRE debtor roster is CASUALLY milling around his house, hoping to "accidentally" encounter him before he has an ANEURYSM.
BARNES got a free CAR.
Larry got SCROOGE'S OWN HOUSE! Just HANDED him the deed!
SOL: I...I sold my own FILLINGS to have that mortgage paid off by Christmas.
MORTY: Then you should TOTALLY come over. Scrooge gave us WAY too much figgy pudding.
{{Header: it all pays off at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: All that factory work has been real character-building for little Billy, you know?}}
All that factory work has been real character-building for little Billy, you know?
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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