JAMAAL: Hey, you wanna go to the University Screening Series? This semester they're doing WESTERNS.
KYRA: Nah, not really a big fan of westerns.
JAMAAL: Come on! The heroism! The sweeping vistas! The unironic presentation of cut-and-dried morality!
KYRA: I've had enough cowboy fetishism for one decade, thank you very much.
KYRA: Besides, what more can possibly be SAID about "the wild West?" By the time there's a body of historical FICTION with a total running time longer that the historical era ITSELF, I am just OVER it!
JAMAAL: I guess that answers my NEXT question, about the M*A*S*H marathon.
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specious argument #61 in favor of sci-fi being the best of all genres
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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