Man: Here you are my dear!
Woman: MMMMM. Flowers, huh?
Woman: Not a very useful gift.
Man: Well, if it were useful, it wouldn't be romantic!
Woman: Isn't that your same argument about art?
Man: As a useless person, it's my argument about everything
{{alt-text: symbolic gestures have utility insofar as they reveal your character to other people as someone who either understands or doesn't understand the power of symbolic gestures to other human beings in a shared society}}
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symbolic gestures have utility insofar as they reveal your character to other people as someone who either understands or doesn't understand the power of symbolic gestures to other human beings in a shared society
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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