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– Hey, when did MacDuff’s Corner Bookshop become a Borders? / I hate it when little mom-n-pop places get bought out by corporate megastores.

– What exactly do you hate about it? Is it the wider selection of books at the bigger stores? Or all the jobs that were created for the community? / How about the fact that you can sit and read for three hours and old man MacDuff can’t chase you out with his cane? (he can only stare wistfully through the window)

– Or, I’ll bet the lower prices really have you in a tizzy.
– Most of my complaints revolve around the security system no longer being of the “old man napping in chair” model.

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#255; In which Larceny must Adapt transcribed by in

– Hey, when did MacDuff’s Corner Bookshop become a Borders? / I hate it when little mom-n-pop places get bought out by corporate megastores.

– What exactly do you hate about it? Is it the wider selection of books at the bigger stores? Or all the jobs that were created for the community? / How about the fact that you can sit and read for three hours and old man MacDuff can’t chase you out with his cane? (he can only stare wistfully through the window)

– Or, I’ll bet the lower prices really have you in a tizzy.
– Most of my complaints revolve around the security system no longer being of the “old man napping in chair” model.

{{header: discounts at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: five finger discount more like huge cardboard box discount}}

#255; In which Larceny must Adapt transcribed by in

- Hey, when did MacDuff's Corner Bookshop become a Borders? / I hate it when little mom-n-pop places get bought out by corporate megastores.

- What exactly do you hate about it? Is it the wider selection of books at the bigger stores? Or all the jobs that were created for the community? / How about the fact that you can sit and read for three hours and old man MacDuff can't chase you out with his cane? (he can only stare wistfully through the window)

- Or, I'll bet the lower prices really have you in a tizzy.
- Most of my complaints revolve around the security system no longer being of the "old man napping in chair" model.

{{header: discounts at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: five finger discount more like huge cardboard box discount}}

five finger discount more like huge cardboard box discount

#255; In which Larceny must Adapt

  — December 8th, 2006

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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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