[[A bearded man is talking to a young girl, who is holding a doll.]]
Father: And if you're bad throughout the year, then the sharkhawk will come and gobble you up!
[[The girl's mother looks on disapprovingly.]]
Mother: Dear, I don't think scaring the kids is a good way to get them to behave.
Mother: It opens a lot of ethical doors vis-a-vis the motivations for doing good
[[The mother and father's silhouettes are shown.]]
Father: Well, I see it this way...
Father: There's a fifty-fifty chance the sharkhawk is gonna devour us all anyway
[[The mother and father are standing around.]]
Father: So, might as well build a little mythology around it
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{{alt-text: He knows if you've been bad or good, but frankly he's more concerned about how lean and marbled you are.}}
He knows if you've been bad or good, but frankly he's more concerned about how lean and marbled you are.
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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