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ELMER: Y’ever notice how cashiers nowadays count your change forwards?
DON: Do tell.
ELMER: Used to be, cashiers had to count change backwards. Start with the price of the item, then add coins and bills as necessary to add up to the amount you’d given them. It’s a more accurate method! Now, their registers tell them how much change to give out. You have to hope your cashier can correctly assemble unusual amounts at a moment’s notice. Because there’s no deduction involved, the process becomes rote and prone to error!

DON: So what’s your point?
ELMER: EVERYTHING’S BETTER THE WAY IT USED TO BE

{{header: march on to WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: kids these days! so selfish! they’re supposed to care about ME!}}

#405; In which Elmer is always Irate transcribed by in

ELMER: Y'ever notice how cashiers nowadays count your change forwards?
DON: Do tell.
ELMER: Used to be, cashiers had to count change backwards. Start with the price of the item, then add coins and bills as necessary to add up to the amount you'd given them. It's a more accurate method! Now, their registers tell them how much change to give out. You have to hope your cashier can correctly assemble unusual amounts at a moment's notice. Because there's no deduction involved, the process becomes rote and prone to error!

DON: So what's your point?
ELMER: EVERYTHING'S BETTER THE WAY IT USED TO BE

{{header: march on to WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: kids these days! so selfish! they're supposed to care about ME!}}

kids these days! so selfish! they're supposed to care about ME!

#405; In which Elmer is always Irate

  — May 6th, 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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