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Woman: Did you hear? J.C. Penney featured a gay couple in an advertising spread for Father’s Day.
Man: That’s great! So progressive! We should support them financially!

[[Later, at the JCPenney]]

Man: I actually hate all these clothes

{{header: big hugs for WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{I…GUESS we could use some new guest towels?}}

#842; The Paradox of Encouragement transcribed by in

Woman: Did you hear? J.C. Penney featured a gay couple in an advertising spread for Father's Day.
Man: That's great! So progressive! We should support them financially!

[[Later, at the JCPenney]]

Man: I actually hate all these clothes

{{header: big hugs for WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{I...GUESS we could use some new guest towels?}}

I...GUESS we could use some new guest towels?

#842; The Paradox of Encouragement

  — June 1st, 2012

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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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