A couple, BLAISCHE and YON, are chatting on the couch at a house party. Each holds a mug and saucer.
BLAISCHE: You ready to bail on this party? If you can call it that?
YON: Hold on, I'm gonna refill my coffee one more time.
BLAISCHE: The coffee is gross.
YON: Yeah, but it's free.
BLAISCHE: It's free, but it's GROSS.
YON: It's gross, but it's FREE.
BLAISCHE: Our standards are apparently different.
YON: Says the person whose idea it was to come to this housewarming in the first place.
BLAISCHE: A "housewarming" is a NORMAL thing for a party to be! I didn't think they meant it literally!
FROM OFF-PANEL: Break time's over, my toasty-woasties! The SNUGGLE PILE is re-forming!
You don't usually need to read all the fine print on a party invitation, but sometimes it helps.
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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