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MARTIN: I wish I had useful hobbies.

MARTIN: You know? I wish I wanted to do all the stuff you have to do anyway.
IAGO: You mean like how some people love doing home repair? Or cooking?
MARTIN: Yeah! People who love cooking can work on their hobby all afternoon, then eat it. It’s dinner. Me, I gotta make dinner on top of doing other stuff.

MARTIN: I feel like my life’s being penalized ’cause I’m not really interested in, like, stock trading. Or car repair. Or sex. Even the wife’s been bugging me to learn plumbing.
DEDE [[frazzled]]: Martin that was a METAPHOR.

{{header: snake your pipes at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: martin’s hobbies mostly involve spending long hours imagining, in painstaking detail, what life might be like on a planet where cheetos are legal tender}}

#402; In which Martin could rethink his Pastimes transcribed by in

MARTIN: I wish I had useful hobbies.

MARTIN: You know? I wish I wanted to do all the stuff you have to do anyway.
IAGO: You mean like how some people love doing home repair? Or cooking?
MARTIN: Yeah! People who love cooking can work on their hobby all afternoon, then eat it. It’s dinner. Me, I gotta make dinner on top of doing other stuff.

MARTIN: I feel like my life’s being penalized ’cause I’m not really interested in, like, stock trading. Or car repair. Or sex. Even the wife’s been bugging me to learn plumbing.
DEDE [[frazzled]]: Martin that was a METAPHOR.

{{header: snake your pipes at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: martin’s hobbies mostly involve spending long hours imagining, in painstaking detail, what life might be like on a planet where cheetos are legal tender}}

#402; In which Martin could rethink his Pastimes transcribed by in

MARTIN: I wish I had useful hobbies.

MARTIN: You know? I wish I wanted to do all the stuff you have to do anyway.
IAGO: You mean like how some people love doing home repair? Or cooking?
MARTIN: Yeah! People who love cooking can work on their hobby all afternoon, then eat it. It's dinner. Me, I gotta make dinner on top of doing other stuff.

MARTIN: I feel like my life's being penalized 'cause I'm not really interested in, like, stock trading. Or car repair. Or sex. Even the wife's been bugging me to learn plumbing.
DEDE [[frazzled]]: Martin that was a METAPHOR.

{{header: snake your pipes at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: martin's hobbies mostly involve spending long hours imagining, in painstaking detail, what life might be like on a planet where cheetos are legal tender}}

martin's hobbies mostly involve spending long hours imagining, in painstaking detail, what life might be like on a planet where cheetos are legal tender

#402; In which Martin could rethink his Pastimes

  — April 25th, 2008

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20 years ago (in photocomic form)

June 9, 2026 by David Malki !
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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