Comic Transcripts

[[A man and woman are lounging around, a laptop on a nearby table.]]
Nostalgic Woman: I realized today that while we might save LETTERS, emails and other digital correspondence will be lost to the ages soon enough.

Critic: Unless you print them out.
Nostalgic Woman: Sure. But when’s the last time you saved a printed email the way you’d save a letter?
Nostalgic Woman: Say the PRESIDENT emailed you. You might save it. But would you FRAME it?

Nostalgic Woman: So I built a program that automatically creates beautiful letters out of digital communications.
Nostalgic Woman: Suitable for cherishing throughout the years and passing down as heirlooms.

[[An array of printed emails is spread out on a table. Each is printed with elaborate and beautiful letterheads. One is from “GRANDMA”, subject “FWD: Fw: re: Fwd: MUST READ” with text “A Marine was” (rest obscured). Another is from “Office of the Governor of Guam”, with text “Blessings to my Dear Friend, I am Mother Sarah Susan Emmanual, the wife to Late. Rev. Dr. Alan George Emmanual who worked with the embassy in Ghana for Nine years. When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of $48 Million Dollars (Forty Eight Million)” (rest obscured). Another is from “Cashchum Limited LLC Bankers”, titled “Notice of Policy Updates” with text “Each year we send you a copy of our Privacy Policy just to keep you up on our data… [obscured] protection practices” (rest obscured). A final email from “HELEN RICHARDSON” in “HUMAN RESOURCES” titled “Re: Re: Sandra’s Birthday Card” reads simply “Ok.”]]

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#1069; Render Unto Paper transcribed by in

[[A man and woman are lounging around, a laptop on a nearby table.]]
Nostalgic Woman: I realized today that while we might save LETTERS, emails and other digital correspondence will be lost to the ages soon enough.

Critic: Unless you print them out.
Nostalgic Woman: Sure. But when’s the last time you saved a printed email the way you’d save a letter?
Nostalgic Woman: Say the PRESIDENT emailed you. You might save it. But would you FRAME it?

Nostalgic Woman: So I built a program that automatically creates beautiful letters out of digital communications.
Nostalgic Woman: Suitable for cherishing throughout the years and passing down as heirlooms.

[[An array of printed emails is spread out on a table. Each is printed with elaborate and beautiful letterheads. One is from “GRANDMA”, subject “FWD: Fw: re: Fwd: MUST READ” with text “A Marine was” (rest obscured). Another is from “Office of the Governor of Guam”, with text “Blessings to my Dear Friend, I am Mother Sarah Susan Emmanual, the wife to Late. Rev. Dr. Alan George Emmanual who worked with the embassy in Ghana for Nine years. When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of $48 Million Dollars (Forty Eight Million)” (rest obscured). Another is from “Cashchum Limited LLC Bankers”, titled “Notice of Policy Updates” with text “Each year we send you a copy of our Privacy Policy just to keep you up on our data… [obscured] protection practices” (rest obscured). A final email from “HELEN RICHARDSON” in “HUMAN RESOURCES” titled “Re: Re: Sandra’s Birthday Card” reads simply “Ok.”]]

{{header: always cherish WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: I’m usin’ up all my letterhead on these dang animated GIFs!}}

#1069; Render Unto Paper transcribed by in

[[A man and woman are lounging around, a laptop on a nearby table.]]
Nostalgic Woman: I realized today that while we might save LETTERS, emails and other digital correspondence will be lost to the ages soon enough.

Critic: Unless you print them out.
Nostalgic Woman: Sure. But when's the last time you saved a printed email the way you'd save a letter?
Nostalgic Woman: Say the PRESIDENT emailed you. You might save it. But would you FRAME it?

Nostalgic Woman: So I built a program that automatically creates beautiful letters out of digital communications.
Nostalgic Woman: Suitable for cherishing throughout the years and passing down as heirlooms.

[[An array of printed emails is spread out on a table. Each is printed with elaborate and beautiful letterheads. One is from "GRANDMA", subject "FWD: Fw: re: Fwd: MUST READ" with text "A Marine was" (rest obscured). Another is from "Office of the Governor of Guam", with text "Blessings to my Dear Friend, I am Mother Sarah Susan Emmanual, the wife to Late. Rev. Dr. Alan George Emmanual who worked with the embassy in Ghana for Nine years. When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of $48 Million Dollars (Forty Eight Million)" (rest obscured). Another is from "Cashchum Limited LLC Bankers", titled "Notice of Policy Updates" with text "Each year we send you a copy of our Privacy Policy just to keep you up on our data... [obscured] protection practices" (rest obscured). A final email from "HELEN RICHARDSON" in "HUMAN RESOURCES" titled "Re: Re: Sandra's Birthday Card" reads simply "Ok."]]

{{header: always cherish WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: I'm usin' up all my letterhead on these dang animated GIFs!}}

I'm usin' up all my letterhead on these dang animated GIFs!

#1069; Render Unto Paper

  — October 17th, 2014

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My newest game: Noodle Battle! At PAX!

September 2, 2026 by David Malki !

The past few weeks have been a frenzy of assembling the very laborious, very bespoke first print run of NOODLE BATTLE, the puzzle game I am releasing this weekend at PAX West in Seattle!

PAX has an event called the PNW Tabletop Game Market (Saturday night ONLY), which is a curated selection of short-run games from local designers. As I’ve mentioned in this space before, I applied for a space in this fall’s event mainly as a way to force myself to finish a new game. And here it is!

The drawings are all by Jason Poland, good pal and cartoonist of My Dad Is Dracula. Jason played an early version of this game at Alaska Robotics Comics Camp this spring, and really liked it!

So I said, “Do you want to help me make it?” And so he has! It was his idea to make all the characters fun little animals, and I think it adds a ton of charm.

Because this edition is limited-run, it has been incredibly labor-intensive to make! The boxes and cards were made by a game factory in the usual fashion, but separately. The blank tiles were made by a woodworker dude out of Connecticut. For each game, we have had to:

  • Cut a piece of plastic and install the box window
  • Paint all the tiles, hundreds at a time
  • Apply a sticker to both sides of every tile
  • Apply stickers to the box (we couldn’t get the box back printed in time, so the whole back side of the box is a sticker too)
  • Apply the “Nutrition Facts” sticker, which was a late suggestion by my kid that I just had to run with
  • Fold up the rule sheet (they come from the printer as big strips of paper)
  • Put all the components into the box and seal it all up

I knew it would be a lot of work and would require some inefficient, expensive compromises AND I WAS RIGHT. But the final product is turning out great, which is the important thing!!

I will have 50 copies with me (if all goes well) at PAX, and then between now and the holidays we will be putting together additional copies to round out this first edition.

I will announce additional copies on Patreon first, once they are available online!! And here too, naturally, before long.

You can also sign up here if you’d like me to email you once the game is available online!


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