HAP: I need to use a computer. Just real quick. I have to look up an email for a meeting.
CURTIS: Computers are pay-per-minute.
HAP: That's fine. I literally only need it for thirty seconds.
[[Despite ridiculous prices and consistently horrible customer service, Kinko's somehow stays in business.]]
HAP: It's taken TEN MINUTES just to log on!
CURTIS: Ten minutes at a DOLLAR A MINUTE!
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The man is checking his email for the steps to a dance that will forcibly repel ants from his trousers. He has a chronic condition.
Was I lying on Tuesday? Possibly. Was it all a grand April Fool’s gag that everyone took as a lighthearted jest? Judging from the many heartfelt emails, perhaps not. Thank you for the kind support, everyone! Back to Victorian engravings we go.
Here’s something that will make it up to you: the online anthology Dark Horse Presents has just published an original 8-page Wondermark story! A spiritual successor to my print-only comic book Treachery!, the new story is entitled Ransom!, and was a ton of fun to make. It contains Victorian engravings aplenty, people who emailed me
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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