Comic Transcripts

[[A balding man and a woman sit at a wall table. The man holds a slip of paper.]]
Man: Did you hear? James Brown died.
Woman: Oh, no! That’s too bad. Man, that really sucks.

Man: The preceding was a TEST.
Man: Can you name any James Brown albums? Any songs, even?
Man: You are not now, nor have you ever been, a James Brown fan.
Woman: So? Can’t a person be sympathetic to someone dying?

Man: Well, sure. But don’t pretend that this bit of news is ROCKING YOUR WORLD, or that it will affect you in ANY way.
Man: We do not need to TiVo the memorial service and then archive it on tape.
Man: We do not need to buy, and then keep forever, the inevitable People Magazine Commemorative Issue.

Woman: Can we at least do a little dance? Make a little love? Get down tonight?
Man: THAT WAS KC AND THE SUNSHINE BAND

{{header: get up offa that thang at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: i worked on the television campaign for the movie ‘robots’ and at one point we used the james brown song ‘dr. detroit’ and there is a line that goes, ‘get up offa that thang, dance ’til you feel better, get up offa that thang, tryn’ta relieve that pressure’ and i swear it was so infectious i had to keep standing up and dancing feverishly before i could go on}}

#261; In which James Brown is … well, you know transcribed by in

[[A balding man and a woman sit at a wall table. The man holds a slip of paper.]]
Man: Did you hear? James Brown died.
Woman: Oh, no! That’s too bad. Man, that really sucks.

Man: The preceding was a TEST.
Man: Can you name any James Brown albums? Any songs, even?
Man: You are not now, nor have you ever been, a James Brown fan.
Woman: So? Can’t a person be sympathetic to someone dying?

Man: Well, sure. But don’t pretend that this bit of news is ROCKING YOUR WORLD, or that it will affect you in ANY way.
Man: We do not need to TiVo the memorial service and then archive it on tape.
Man: We do not need to buy, and then keep forever, the inevitable People Magazine Commemorative Issue.

Woman: Can we at least do a little dance? Make a little love? Get down tonight?
Man: THAT WAS KC AND THE SUNSHINE BAND

{{header: get up offa that thang at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: i worked on the television campaign for the movie ‘robots’ and at one point we used the james brown song ‘dr. detroit’ and there is a line that goes, ‘get up offa that thang, dance ’til you feel better, get up offa that thang, tryn’ta relieve that pressure’ and i swear it was so infectious i had to keep standing up and dancing feverishly before i could go on}}

#261; In which James Brown is … well, you know transcribed by in

[[A balding man and a woman sit at a wall table. The man holds a slip of paper.]]
Man: Did you hear? James Brown died.
Woman: Oh, no! That's too bad. Man, that really sucks.

Man: The preceding was a TEST.
Man: Can you name any James Brown albums? Any songs, even?
Man: You are not now, nor have you ever been, a James Brown fan.
Woman: So? Can't a person be sympathetic to someone dying?

Man: Well, sure. But don't pretend that this bit of news is ROCKING YOUR WORLD, or that it will affect you in ANY way.
Man: We do not need to TiVo the memorial service and then archive it on tape.
Man: We do not need to buy, and then keep forever, the inevitable People Magazine Commemorative Issue.

Woman: Can we at least do a little dance? Make a little love? Get down tonight?
Man: THAT WAS KC AND THE SUNSHINE BAND

{{header: get up offa that thang at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: i worked on the television campaign for the movie 'robots' and at one point we used the james brown song 'dr. detroit' and there is a line that goes, 'get up offa that thang, dance 'til you feel better, get up offa that thang, tryn'ta relieve that pressure' and i swear it was so infectious i had to keep standing up and dancing feverishly before i could go on}}

i worked on the television campaign for the movie 'robots' and at one point we used the james brown song 'dr. detroit' and there is a line that goes, 'get up offa that thang, dance 'til you feel better, get up offa that thang, tryn'ta relieve that pressure' and i swear it was so infectious i had to keep standing up and dancing feverishly before i could go on

20 years ago (in photocomic form)

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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