Comic Transcripts

[[A woman, PRUDELIA, stands before an enormous harp in a museum while speaking to a man, GRIMSBY.]]

PRUDELIA: Welcome to the Museum of the World’s Largest Harp! Let me show you around!
PRUDELIA: This is the world’s largest harp. It’s eighty-five feet tall and weighs precisely as much as a school bus.

PRUDELIA: It was constructed in 1883 by the great harpist and casino magnate John Harpington, after whom the instrument takes its name
PRUDELIA: Previously it was known as the stringflute
PRUDELIA: Upon Harpington’s death of consumption, this museum was erected around the harp, which could not be moved

GRIMSBY: What poppycock. There was no instrument called the stringflute. John Harpington died of syphilis, and there is a larger harp in Shanghai.

PRUDELIA: Sorry, who’s the harp expert here? Who’s the one with harp-shaped business cards working at a harp museum?
GRIMSBY: I have rectangular business cards, and I work in a rectangle building, but I can HARDLY claim to be an expert at ORTHOGANY.

PRUDELIA: That’s…not even a word?
GRIMSBY: OH so NOW suddenly you’re an expert on both harps AND wordmakery

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[[A woman, PRUDELIA, stands before an enormous harp in a museum while speaking to a man, GRIMSBY.]]

PRUDELIA: Welcome to the Museum of the World’s Largest Harp! Let me show you around!
PRUDELIA: This is the world’s largest harp. It’s eighty-five feet tall and weighs precisely as much as a school bus.

PRUDELIA: It was constructed in 1883 by the great harpist and casino magnate John Harpington, after whom the instrument takes its name
PRUDELIA: Previously it was known as the stringflute
PRUDELIA: Upon Harpington’s death of consumption, this museum was erected around the harp, which could not be moved

GRIMSBY: What poppycock. There was no instrument called the stringflute. John Harpington died of syphilis, and there is a larger harp in Shanghai.

PRUDELIA: Sorry, who’s the harp expert here? Who’s the one with harp-shaped business cards working at a harp museum?
GRIMSBY: I have rectangular business cards, and I work in a rectangle building, but I can HARDLY claim to be an expert at ORTHOGANY.

PRUDELIA: That’s…not even a word?
GRIMSBY: OH so NOW suddenly you’re an expert on both harps AND wordmakery

{{header: play along at WONDERMARK.COM}}

#1150; In which a Harp is huge transcribed by in

[[A woman, PRUDELIA, stands before an enormous harp in a museum while speaking to a man, GRIMSBY.]]

PRUDELIA: Welcome to the Museum of the World's Largest Harp! Let me show you around!
PRUDELIA: This is the world's largest harp. It's eighty-five feet tall and weighs precisely as much as a school bus.

PRUDELIA: It was constructed in 1883 by the great harpist and casino magnate John Harpington, after whom the instrument takes its name
PRUDELIA: Previously it was known as the stringflute
PRUDELIA: Upon Harpington's death of consumption, this museum was erected around the harp, which could not be moved

GRIMSBY: What poppycock. There was no instrument called the stringflute. John Harpington died of syphilis, and there is a larger harp in Shanghai.

PRUDELIA: Sorry, who's the harp expert here? Who's the one with harp-shaped business cards working at a harp museum?
GRIMSBY: I have rectangular business cards, and I work in a rectangle building, but I can HARDLY claim to be an expert at ORTHOGANY.

PRUDELIA: That's...not even a word?
GRIMSBY: OH so NOW suddenly you're an expert on both harps AND wordmakery

{{header: play along at WONDERMARK.COM}}

we sell novelty scale replicas of the world's largest harp. while aficionados of the world's largest harp will consider them comically small, in actuality they are around the size of a regulation orchestra harp

20 years ago (in photocomic form)

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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