– PIE! I DEMAND PIE! KEY LIME! BANANA CREAM! CHERRY, APPLE, OR MERINGUE!

– How tragic! A victim of society’s scorn, you cope with the stigma by drowning your sorrow’s in further consumption!

– As interesting as your amateur analysis may be, it fails in one important respect: It does NOT, in fact, produce pie. For me to eat.

– But I understand you! I accept you for who you are!
– I am a man who needs pie. THAT is who I am.

header: loads o’ lard at WONDERMARK.COM
alt-text: in sophist argument, “i demand pie!” = automatic win

– PIE! I DEMAND PIE! KEY LIME! BANANA CREAM! CHERRY, APPLE, OR MERINGUE!

– How tragic! A victim of society’s scorn, you cope with the stigma by drowning your sorrow’s in further consumption!

– As interesting as your amateur analysis may be, it fails in one important respect: It does NOT, in fact, produce pie. For me to eat.

– But I understand you! I accept you for who you are!
– I am a man who needs pie. THAT is who I am.

header: loads o’ lard at WONDERMARK.COM
alt-text: in sophist argument, “i demand pie!” = automatic win

- PIE! I DEMAND PIE! KEY LIME! BANANA CREAM! CHERRY, APPLE, OR MERINGUE!

- How tragic! A victim of society's scorn, you cope with the stigma by drowning your sorrow's in further consumption!

- As interesting as your amateur analysis may be, it fails in one important respect: It does NOT, in fact, produce pie. For me to eat.

- But I understand you! I accept you for who you are!
- I am a man who needs pie. THAT is who I am.

header: loads o' lard at WONDERMARK.COM
alt-text: in sophist argument, "i demand pie!" = automatic win

in sophist argument, i demand pie = automatic win

#123; In which Pie is desired

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20 years ago (in photocomic form)

June 9, 2026 by David Malki !

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!