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[[A man in a top hat and another with mutton chops are at a restaurant. The waiter approaches.]]
Waiter: Ready for the bill?
Tophat: Actually, in the interest of hyperlocal community interplay, we would like to propose a barter system.
Tophat: Rather than BUYING these burgers, we would like to simply BORROW them and bring you back two burgers later this week.

Tophat: Alternately, we could bake you a birthday cake.
Waiter: That is not going to work.
Tophat: You’re right! MY cake is worth at least FOUR burgers. You would end up owing us EXTRA BURGERS.

Waiter: Five minutes ago you both ate time-release burger bombs. If I don’t deactivate them, you are not going to survive the drive home.
Chops: Actually we’re WALKING home, so no worries
Tophat: We’ll be back later with the cake.

[[The waiter pursues the fleeing pair in a car. Tophat’s top hat has fallen off; he is sweating.]]
Tophat: THIS IS NOT THE WAY TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE MICROECONOMY

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{{alt-text: Pshaw, like the birthday cake WOULDN’T have been full of time-release burger bombs}}

#1078; In which a Meal is bartered transcribed by in

[[A man in a top hat and another with mutton chops are at a restaurant. The waiter approaches.]]
Waiter: Ready for the bill?
Tophat: Actually, in the interest of hyperlocal community interplay, we would like to propose a barter system.
Tophat: Rather than BUYING these burgers, we would like to simply BORROW them and bring you back two burgers later this week.

Tophat: Alternately, we could bake you a birthday cake.
Waiter: That is not going to work.
Tophat: You’re right! MY cake is worth at least FOUR burgers. You would end up owing us EXTRA BURGERS.

Waiter: Five minutes ago you both ate time-release burger bombs. If I don’t deactivate them, you are not going to survive the drive home.
Chops: Actually we’re WALKING home, so no worries
Tophat: We’ll be back later with the cake.

[[The waiter pursues the fleeing pair in a car. Tophat’s top hat has fallen off; he is sweating.]]
Tophat: THIS IS NOT THE WAY TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE MICROECONOMY

{{header: dine out at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: Pshaw, like the birthday cake WOULDN’T have been full of time-release burger bombs}}

#1078; In which a Meal is bartered transcribed by in

[[A man in a top hat and another with mutton chops are at a restaurant. The waiter approaches.]]
Waiter: Ready for the bill?
Tophat: Actually, in the interest of hyperlocal community interplay, we would like to propose a barter system.
Tophat: Rather than BUYING these burgers, we would like to simply BORROW them and bring you back two burgers later this week.

Tophat: Alternately, we could bake you a birthday cake.
Waiter: That is not going to work.
Tophat: You're right! MY cake is worth at least FOUR burgers. You would end up owing us EXTRA BURGERS.

Waiter: Five minutes ago you both ate time-release burger bombs. If I don't deactivate them, you are not going to survive the drive home.
Chops: Actually we're WALKING home, so no worries
Tophat: We'll be back later with the cake.

[[The waiter pursues the fleeing pair in a car. Tophat's top hat has fallen off; he is sweating.]]
Tophat: THIS IS NOT THE WAY TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE MICROECONOMY

{{header: dine out at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: Pshaw, like the birthday cake WOULDN'T have been full of time-release burger bombs}}

Pshaw, like the birthday cake WOULDN'T have been full of time-release burger bombs

#1078; In which a Meal is bartered

  — November 21st, 2014

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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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