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DIANE: Okay, I’ve hired the sketch artist for our wedding! And bought little drawing pads for all the tables at the reception.
BART: You know, I got to thinking?there’s something hyperreal about an obsessively-photographed event.

[[Closeup of a photo of the two of them.]]
BART [[off-panel]]: Each picture is a moment with its own unique vantage point. Taken collectively, they’re a document more comprehensive, more detail-sensitive, than any participant’s actual experience.

BART: We’ll be up front hearing people cough and shuffle around, while cameras all around us are capturing instants, preserving the most fleeting of glances, showing us (and those to come after us) more than we could ever notice on our own. In a way, the day when everyone gathers and performs the ceremony is simply a run-through for the cameras. The documentary evidence is what lasts forever.

DIANE: One week ago you were EXACTLY as impassioned about EXACTLY the opposite.
BART: Turns out I just like formulating arguments!

[[header: now let me explain WONDERMARK.COM]]

[[alt-text: I INSIST that you believe me, every time, forever]]

#667; The Delight is in finding Reasons transcribed by in

DIANE: Okay, I’ve hired the sketch artist for our wedding! And bought little drawing pads for all the tables at the reception.
BART: You know, I got to thinking?there’s something hyperreal about an obsessively-photographed event.

[[Closeup of a photo of the two of them.]]
BART [[off-panel]]: Each picture is a moment with its own unique vantage point. Taken collectively, they’re a document more comprehensive, more detail-sensitive, than any participant’s actual experience.

BART: We’ll be up front hearing people cough and shuffle around, while cameras all around us are capturing instants, preserving the most fleeting of glances, showing us (and those to come after us) more than we could ever notice on our own. In a way, the day when everyone gathers and performs the ceremony is simply a run-through for the cameras. The documentary evidence is what lasts forever.

DIANE: One week ago you were EXACTLY as impassioned about EXACTLY the opposite.
BART: Turns out I just like formulating arguments!

[[header: now let me explain WONDERMARK.COM]]

[[alt-text: I INSIST that you believe me, every time, forever]]

#667; The Delight is in finding Reasons transcribed by in

DIANE: Okay, I've hired the sketch artist for our wedding! And bought little drawing pads for all the tables at the reception.
BART: You know, I got to thinking?there's something hyperreal about an obsessively-photographed event.

[[Closeup of a photo of the two of them.]]
BART [[off-panel]]: Each picture is a moment with its own unique vantage point. Taken collectively, they're a document more comprehensive, more detail-sensitive, than any participant's actual experience.

BART: We'll be up front hearing people cough and shuffle around, while cameras all around us are capturing instants, preserving the most fleeting of glances, showing us (and those to come after us) more than we could ever notice on our own. In a way, the day when everyone gathers and performs the ceremony is simply a run-through for the cameras. The documentary evidence is what lasts forever.

DIANE: One week ago you were EXACTLY as impassioned about EXACTLY the opposite.
BART: Turns out I just like formulating arguments!

[[header: now let me explain WONDERMARK.COM]]

[[alt-text: I INSIST that you believe me, every time, forever]]

I INSIST that you believe me, every time, forever

#667; The Delight is in finding Reasons

  — October 19th, 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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