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[[DENVER is enjoying some Cheetos–with chopsticks.]]
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SYLVAN: Are you using CHOPSTICKS?
For CHEETOS?
DENVER: Keeps the orange crap off my fingers.

[[Silent panel as SYLVAN considers this and DENVER picks up another Cheeto.]]

[[Front page of a newspaper with a profile shot of DENVER.]]
HEADLINE: GENIUS
SUBHEAD: “The idea just came to me,” says modern-day Prometheus

{{Header: discover WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: Also, spoons for salted nuts, but you can easily accidentally plow down a 5-lb. bag that way without even noticing.}}

#601; The Discovery that Changed the World transcribed by in

[[DENVER is enjoying some Cheetos–with chopsticks.]]
<>

SYLVAN: Are you using CHOPSTICKS?
For CHEETOS?
DENVER: Keeps the orange crap off my fingers.

[[Silent panel as SYLVAN considers this and DENVER picks up another Cheeto.]]

[[Front page of a newspaper with a profile shot of DENVER.]]
HEADLINE: GENIUS
SUBHEAD: “The idea just came to me,” says modern-day Prometheus

{{Header: discover WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: Also, spoons for salted nuts, but you can easily accidentally plow down a 5-lb. bag that way without even noticing.}}

#601; The Discovery that Changed the World transcribed by in

[[DENVER is enjoying some Cheetos--with chopsticks.]]
<>

SYLVAN: Are you using CHOPSTICKS?
For CHEETOS?
DENVER: Keeps the orange crap off my fingers.

[[Silent panel as SYLVAN considers this and DENVER picks up another Cheeto.]]

[[Front page of a newspaper with a profile shot of DENVER.]]
HEADLINE: GENIUS
SUBHEAD: "The idea just came to me," says modern-day Prometheus

{{Header: discover WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: Also, spoons for salted nuts, but you can easily accidentally plow down a 5-lb. bag that way without even noticing.}}

Also, spoons for salted nuts, but you can easily accidentally plow down a 5-lb. bag that way without even noticing.

#601; The Discovery that Changed the World

  — March 5th, 2010

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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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