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[[An upset-looking individual accosts a custodian, who is holding a mop above a bucket.]]
Pedestrian: Excuse me! EXCUSE ME! The FLOOR is WET!
Custodian: Well, I’m… mopping?
Pedestrian: WELL, if I had walked OVER it, I might have fallen!

Pedestrian: What if I didn’t see the puddle? What if my arms had been full of GROCERIES, or I had been DISTRACTED by talking on the phone? I could have been SERIOUSLY HURT!

Custodian: Yes — but — none of those things happened
Pedestrian: What if this water had been GASOLINE? And I had been SMOKING?
Pedestrian: WHAT if it had BEEN a FOOT-DEEP POOL of GASOLINE?

Pedestrian: What if it was an elaborate series of GASOLINE CANALS spelling out RACIAL SLURS?
Pedestrian: What a DISGRACE. You DISGUST me.
Custodian: If ANYTHING was a foot-deep gasoline canal spelling out racial slurs, it’d be disgusting. The same would be true of your LIVING ROOM.

Custodian: But… since it’s not… it’s NOT?
Pedestrian: If this entire STREET were filled with gigantic birds bellowing demonic squawks with their FEATHERS on fire, I — I just don’t know what I’d do. I’d FREAK out.

Pedestrian: I’d probably DIE. I’d die RIGHT HERE on the sidewalk. I’M ALLERGIC TO FEATHERS!!
Custodian: Okay, hold on just a second, now I’m taking notes

{{header: trip over WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: dear mr malki, if you were to replace ‘mopping’ in this comic with running for french parliament, well, you can see how the logic completely falls apart}}

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[[An upset-looking individual accosts a custodian, who is holding a mop above a bucket.]]
Pedestrian: Excuse me! EXCUSE ME! The FLOOR is WET!
Custodian: Well, I'm... mopping?
Pedestrian: WELL, if I had walked OVER it, I might have fallen!

Pedestrian: What if I didn't see the puddle? What if my arms had been full of GROCERIES, or I had been DISTRACTED by talking on the phone? I could have been SERIOUSLY HURT!

Custodian: Yes -- but -- none of those things happened
Pedestrian: What if this water had been GASOLINE? And I had been SMOKING?
Pedestrian: WHAT if it had BEEN a FOOT-DEEP POOL of GASOLINE?

Pedestrian: What if it was an elaborate series of GASOLINE CANALS spelling out RACIAL SLURS?
Pedestrian: What a DISGRACE. You DISGUST me.
Custodian: If ANYTHING was a foot-deep gasoline canal spelling out racial slurs, it'd be disgusting. The same would be true of your LIVING ROOM.

Custodian: But... since it's not... it's NOT?
Pedestrian: If this entire STREET were filled with gigantic birds bellowing demonic squawks with their FEATHERS on fire, I -- I just don't know what I'd do. I'd FREAK out.

Pedestrian: I'd probably DIE. I'd die RIGHT HERE on the sidewalk. I'M ALLERGIC TO FEATHERS!!
Custodian: Okay, hold on just a second, now I'm taking notes

{{header: trip over WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: dear mr malki, if you were to replace 'mopping' in this comic with running for french parliament, well, you can see how the logic completely falls apart}}

dear mr malki, if you were to replace 'mopping' in this comic with running for french parliament, well, you can see how the logic completely falls apart

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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