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EUGENE: What’s this I hear about you redeeming money? Redeeming it for what?
OTTO: Not in a transactional sense, but in a moral sense. [He hands HILDA a slip of paper] Thank you, here’s your receipt.

OTTO: All our money has a history. Bribes paid to politicians…hush money paid to victims…drugs and even human beings bought and sold…that money makes its way into our banks. It carries negativity with it. Someone’s starting a business, or buying toys for their baby? They don’t want Iran-Contra money. They want nice money. Money with positive energy.

EUGENE: So you’re…exchanging it for them?
OTTO: REDEEMING it. [To DAVE] Ah, yes. Looks like these dollars in your account were once used for a hooker binge on a CEO’s yacht. Right now I have Einstein’s patent office wages for a 15% commission – or JFK’s Pulitzer Prize winnings for twenty.
DAVE: Definitely give me JFK.

EUGENE: If what you’re doing was at all real, it would be called money laundering.
OTTO: Well since it isn’t, then it isn’t.

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#702; The Manufacture of Anxiety transcribed by in

EUGENE: What's this I hear about you redeeming money? Redeeming it for what?
OTTO: Not in a transactional sense, but in a moral sense. [He hands HILDA a slip of paper] Thank you, here's your receipt.

OTTO: All our money has a history. Bribes paid to politicians...hush money paid to victims...drugs and even human beings bought and sold...that money makes its way into our banks. It carries negativity with it. Someone's starting a business, or buying toys for their baby? They don't want Iran-Contra money. They want nice money. Money with positive energy.

EUGENE: So you're...exchanging it for them?
OTTO: REDEEMING it. [To DAVE] Ah, yes. Looks like these dollars in your account were once used for a hooker binge on a CEO's yacht. Right now I have Einstein's patent office wages for a 15% commission - or JFK's Pulitzer Prize winnings for twenty.
DAVE: Definitely give me JFK.

EUGENE: If what you're doing was at all real, it would be called money laundering.
OTTO: Well since it isn't, then it isn't.

{{header: trade in for WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: Peace of mind is really the only product in the world.}}

Peace of mind is really the only product in the world.

#702; The Manufacture of Anxiety

  — February 15th, 2011

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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.

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