[[A woman, PRUDENCE, reaches for a tilted picture on the wall while another woman, ERMENGARDE, watches through tiny opera glasses.]]
ERMENGARDE: Hah! Messes with your OCD, huh?
PRUDENCE: Well, let's see...
PRUDENCE: OCD is characterized by feelings of DREAD and FEAR. WHAT IF the house burns down and it's my fault? WHAT IF I have a flesh-eating infection?? Obsessive behaviors are attempts to placate the fear -- which, being irrational, can be persistent and horrible.
PRUDENCE: Me? I just LIKE keeping things orderly, or tidy, or neatly arranged. It's PLEASING. Cuts down on visual clutter.
ERMENGARDE: And that's NOT OCD?
PRUDENCE: Of course it's not OCD. It's called BEING CIVILIZED
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BCD makes for a more pleasing abbreviation, anyway.
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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