[[Someone in a dress shows a piece of paper to someone very near her in a suit and a tall top hat.]]
Someone in a Dress: ...and *this* is my great-great-uncle Barnabas. *He* owned a *sawmill*.
Someone in a Suit: Mmm
[[Close-up of the photograph: a portrait of someone older-looking in a top hat. A hand is holding the photograph.]]
[[The same arrangement as in the first panel]]
Someone in a Suit: *Fascinating*. He looks just like every *other* person I've never met. You could be showing me a picture of the dude who invented *chewable thalidomide*. I would have no idea.
[[The one in a suit is joined by another, one with a beard. The one in the dress is gone.]]
Someone in a Suit: I would characterize my chances for a second date as "slim".
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{{alt-text: When I challenged her to correctly identify her great-great-grandmother from a stack of family photos I jumbled together with stills I had printed out from a Dust Bowl documentary and brought with me, I finally realized that this wasn't actually about her, it was about me}}
When I challenged her to correctly identify her great-great-grandmother from a stack of family photos I jumbled together with stills I had printed out from a Dust Bowl documentary and brought with me, I finally realized that this wasn't actually about her, it was about me
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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