A farmer stands in front of a worker who is tending to a fruit tree. The farmer speaks to us, the viewer.
FARMER:
Halloween has gotten too corporate! Big Candy pushes its sugar-laden garbage as the only sensible choice compared to razor-bladed apples!
Another example of big business using its marketing muscle to destroy the small entrepreneur!
Well, guess what, Nestle? We only use genuine U.S. steel in our razor blades!
Each blade is lovingly tied to an emerging springtime blossom so that the apple grows around the blade seamlessly! Some things are still done by hand!
[He takes a bite of the apple, which CRUNCHES.] Ow! Aah!!
[Blood is now running down his chin.] Delicious!
And my colleagues who put used needles into bananas and depleted uranium into grapes aren't doing any better!!
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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