– I can’t wait to see what Anna sent me from her trip to Venus!
– Hrrm?

– What’s that noise?
– Help! Please! Is anyone there?

– Oh, geez. This better not be what I think it is…
– Mercy! I ail! This journey has not been kind!

– It IS. A Venusian EXCHANGE BRIDE.
– O my betrothed!

– Space gangrene has et my fingers… I hope your health care can pay for a helper monkey!

– This is what happens when you try to be sarcastic via e-mail.
– Gah! I’ve burst my scabs!

- I can't wait to see what Anna sent me from her trip to Venus!
- Hrrm?

- What's that noise?
- Help! Please! Is anyone there?

- Oh, geez. This better not be what I think it is...
- Mercy! I ail! This journey has not been kind!

- It IS. A Venusian EXCHANGE BRIDE.
- O my betrothed!

- Space gangrene has et my fingers... I hope your health care can pay for a helper monkey!

- This is what happens when you try to be sarcastic via e-mail.
- Gah! I've burst my scabs!

mail-order bride comic #2 (of 351)

#085; In which the Letter-Carrier delivers Love

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20 years ago (in photocomic form)

June 9, 2026 by David Malki !

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!