SIMON: Hey, have any reporters shown up lately? TV trucks? Camera vans? Photojournalists who may also be arachnid-based superheroes? Anything like that?
ALLAN: Can't really say so, no.
SIMON: Hmmm. I was expecting a better turnout.
ALLAN: What's going on?
SIMON: Oh, nothing much...just setting some world records. I figured the media would be all over it.
ALLAN: What kind of records?
SIMON: Well, let's see...
SIMON: This morning I became the first person in history to chew a single mouthful of oatmeal 3,290 times in my kitchen. First in HISTORY.
ALLAN: Have you sent out a press release?
SIMON: Naw, man. That's been DONE.
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{{alt-text: Simon would rather the Guinness book be utterly exhaustive. He would gladly read a 58,000-page edition.}}
Simon would rather the Guinness book be utterly exhaustive. He would gladly read a 58,000-page edition.
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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