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[[An elephant, wearing a straw boater style hat, and shiny-looking Prussian guard style boots that extend up to the elephant’s body, is singing a song.]]
Elephant: Oh it’s off to
Candycane Street
in Gumdrop Town
where the birds compete
to bother a clown

and the clown goes nuts
so the people cheer
and they show him their butts
’til he reeks of his tears

but the birds are all mean
so they frighten the kids
with chirps so obscene
all the babies get SIDS.

[[To the right of the elephant is a dark-haired young woman in Victorian style shirtwaist and skirt, holding a document.]]
Woman: The National Endowment for the Arts has denied your grant.
Elephant: Everyone who doesn’t get me must be either stupid or jealous

{{header: dance for WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: WHY doesn’t anybody take me SERIOUSLY}}

#838; The Lament of the Auteur transcribed by in

[[An elephant, wearing a straw boater style hat, and shiny-looking Prussian guard style boots that extend up to the elephant’s body, is singing a song.]]
Elephant: Oh it’s off to
Candycane Street
in Gumdrop Town
where the birds compete
to bother a clown

and the clown goes nuts
so the people cheer
and they show him their butts
’til he reeks of his tears

but the birds are all mean
so they frighten the kids
with chirps so obscene
all the babies get SIDS.

[[To the right of the elephant is a dark-haired young woman in Victorian style shirtwaist and skirt, holding a document.]]
Woman: The National Endowment for the Arts has denied your grant.
Elephant: Everyone who doesn’t get me must be either stupid or jealous

{{header: dance for WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: WHY doesn’t anybody take me SERIOUSLY}}

#838; The Lament of the Auteur transcribed by in

[[An elephant, wearing a straw boater style hat, and shiny-looking Prussian guard style boots that extend up to the elephant's body, is singing a song.]]
Elephant: Oh it's off to
Candycane Street
in Gumdrop Town
where the birds compete
to bother a clown

and the clown goes nuts
so the people cheer
and they show him their butts
'til he reeks of his tears

but the birds are all mean
so they frighten the kids
with chirps so obscene
all the babies get SIDS.

[[To the right of the elephant is a dark-haired young woman in Victorian style shirtwaist and skirt, holding a document.]]
Woman: The National Endowment for the Arts has denied your grant.
Elephant: Everyone who doesn't get me must be either stupid or jealous

{{header: dance for WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: WHY doesn't anybody take me SERIOUSLY}}

WHY doesn't anybody take me SERIOUSLY

#838; The Lament of the Auteur

  — May 18th, 2012

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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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