- Went by Hot Topic the other day. They had a pretty rad Ninja Turtles t-shirt. - Hot Topic? Geez, man!
- I know! I know!
- I really do not want to give in to their crass and obvious pandering to my demographic. / But yet I really want a Ninja Turtles t-shirt. I have been agonizing over this.
- Well, I guess you could somehow convince yourself that shopping for t-shirts at Hot Topic is ironic in itself.
- I will inhabit any fantasy world that will put Shredder on my body.
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{{alt-text: note for international readers: hot topic is a store found in suburban shopping malls. they sell a bizarre combination of naughty novelties, goth gear like corsets and boots, and trendy logo shirts with 'clever' sayings and nintendo characters and the emblems of punk rock bands that were big a decade before the average customer was born. it is the dictionary definition of over-the-counter counterculture.}}
note for international readers: hot topic is a store found in suburban shopping malls. they sell a bizarre combination of naughty novelties, goth gear like corsets and boots, and trendy logo shirts with 'clever' sayings or nintendo characters or the emblems of punk rock bands that were big a decade before the average customer was born. it is the dictionary definition of over-the-counter counterculture.
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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