[[Two friends meet.]]
Friend: Hey! How ya doin'?
Unfortunate: Well
Unfortunate: Not great, but let's unpack this.
Unfortunate: The simplest thing to say is just "fine".
Unfortunate: But my PARROT is missing. Her cage is open when I got home. I don't know if I'll ever see her again.
Unfortunate: So I'm WORRIED, and FRUSTRATED because I can't remember if I latched the cage properly this morning.
Unfortunate: But YOU don't care about my parrot. You can EMPATHIZE, but your knowing about the parrot affects YOUR life not in the least. If anything, it brings you DOWN a bit.
Unfortunate: As my friend, you may listen to my complaints for MY sake - assuming there is some value to me in venting. But as YOUR friend, I wish to spare you having to hear about something you don't care about and cannot affect.
Unfortunate: So, to answer your question, "I am fine."
[[The dog from the previous comic flies out of the air, hitting the unfortunate in the neck.]]
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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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