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FRAN: Pumpkin cookies!
DWIGHT: Ah, pumpkin! The autumn-specific treat! Why are pumpkin dishes so seasonal?

FRAN: Because pumpkins grow in the fall?
DWIGHT: Sure, the first person to eat a pumpkin probably did s because it was there. It was a crisp October day?the only sound the crunching of leaves and the slightly squishier sound of the very first pumpkin being et.

DWIGHT: But now pumpkins are cultivated. We buy them from India. You could get a pumpkin on Valentine’s Day, if you wanted.
FRAN: (hint, hint)
DWIGHT: The demand for pumpkins was such that an industry grew up around them. We wanted this seasonal thing so much, we made it NO LONGER SEASONAL. Yet we still pretend that we can only eat pumpkin at certain times of year.

DWIGHT: I’m sure that’s a profound metaphor for something.
FRAN: It’s a metaphor for how some people will go to any absurd length to make every cookie into a metaphor.

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#677, Much musing about Pumpkin transcribed by in

FRAN: Pumpkin cookies!
DWIGHT: Ah, pumpkin! The autumn-specific treat! Why are pumpkin dishes so seasonal?

FRAN: Because pumpkins grow in the fall?
DWIGHT: Sure, the first person to eat a pumpkin probably did s because it was there. It was a crisp October day?the only sound the crunching of leaves and the slightly squishier sound of the very first pumpkin being et.

DWIGHT: But now pumpkins are cultivated. We buy them from India. You could get a pumpkin on Valentine’s Day, if you wanted.
FRAN: (hint, hint)
DWIGHT: The demand for pumpkins was such that an industry grew up around them. We wanted this seasonal thing so much, we made it NO LONGER SEASONAL. Yet we still pretend that we can only eat pumpkin at certain times of year.

DWIGHT: I’m sure that’s a profound metaphor for something.
FRAN: It’s a metaphor for how some people will go to any absurd length to make every cookie into a metaphor.

{{header: kind of like WONDERMARK.COM}}

{{alt-text: Do you even know what a metaphor is}}

#677, Much musing about Pumpkin transcribed by in

FRAN: Pumpkin cookies!
DWIGHT: Ah, pumpkin! The autumn-specific treat! Why are pumpkin dishes so seasonal?

FRAN: Because pumpkins grow in the fall?
DWIGHT: Sure, the first person to eat a pumpkin probably did s because it was there. It was a crisp October day?the only sound the crunching of leaves and the slightly squishier sound of the very first pumpkin being et.

DWIGHT: But now pumpkins are cultivated. We buy them from India. You could get a pumpkin on Valentine's Day, if you wanted.
FRAN: (hint, hint)
DWIGHT: The demand for pumpkins was such that an industry grew up around them. We wanted this seasonal thing so much, we made it NO LONGER SEASONAL. Yet we still pretend that we can only eat pumpkin at certain times of year.

DWIGHT: I'm sure that's a profound metaphor for something.
FRAN: It's a metaphor for how some people will go to any absurd length to make every cookie into a metaphor.

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{{alt-text: Do you even know what a metaphor is}}

Do you even know what a metaphor is

#677, Much musing about Pumpkin

  — November 16th, 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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