[[This comic is displayed through photographs. A pilot in some sort of raincoat sits in an early airplane, apparently from the early 1900s. Text is displayed in the style of A Softer World.]]
Narrator: If you love something
[[Zooming in a bit on the pilot, who is smiling.]]
Narrator: let it go.
[[A view of the plane itself.]]
Narrator: Let it climb
[[Children point at the airplane, which is now aloft, in the distance.]]
Narrator: to its own heights
[[Zoom on one of the children.]]
Narrator: Let it navigate by the stars it finds.
[[Zoom on the other children.]]
Narrator: Its smell in your clothes
Narrator: is yours to keep.
{{header: as soft as WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: When the wind is in your face, you're either moving or being blown at.}}
When the wind is in your face, you're either moving or being blown at.
The great webcomic A Softer World posted its final strip yesterday. Joey & Emily started their comic in February 2003, just two months before I started Wondermark. When I first happened across their strip, I felt a certain kinship just because it was someone else making comics without laboriously drawing everything (like a sucker). I think too few creative people develop the discipline to end things when they’re ready to end them.
If you haven’t read A Softer World before, you have a treat waiting for you. The melancholy is greatly flavored if you picture Joey’s wolfish grin as you read.
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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