[[Newscaster WALT HOPPENDORF'S melodious voice comes over the telegrameutophium.]]
WALT: Breaking news. Tragedy strikes eastern Europe as a trainload of irradiated hamsters derails in the former Soviet republic of Georgia.
WALT: Now that we've got your attention, here are a bunch of commercials.
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MAME: Hello?
SARAH: Oh, honey, I just heard the news! Are you all right? You don't live near the train tracks, do you?
[[MAME considers her response]]
MAME: Mom, I live in Atlanta.
SARAH: Can't a mother be WORRIED
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{{alt-text: cell phone lines were jammed. everyone was so busy fielding concerned calls from out-of-state relatives that they didn't notice the GIANT METEOR OH NOOOOOOOO}}
cell phone lines were jammed. everyone was so busy fielding concerned calls from out-of-state relatives that they didn't notice the GIANT METEOR OH NOOOOOOOO
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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