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[[We see a commemorative plate on a stand. It’s decorated with an American flag and a bald eagle, and the legend THE CHOSEN LAND.]]
PARKER (offpanel): Look at that.
You KNOW it was designed by some callous jerk trying to cash in on honest folks’ patriotism.

[[Pan out to PARKER and DAVE doing something involving a ladle and a container inside a wooden frame.]]
PARKER: “Do you love America? Buy my worthless crap to prove it!”
DAVE: You don’t know that it was jerk-created!
What if the artist poured out his genuine feelings onto that plate?
Maybe there just happens to be a market of people wanting to express how much they share his sentiment!

PARKER: I guess I just wish more people would share MY sentiments.
DAVE: Well, who knows? Maybe they do!
Why not put out your OWN plate and see how it does?

[[Another commemorative plate, apparently PARKER’s. It says “EVERYONE PLEASE STOP BUYING SO MUCH WORTHLESS CRAP.”]]

{{Header: commemorate WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: sales are slow}}

#431; In which a Plate drives Parker to Anger transcribed by in

[[We see a commemorative plate on a stand. It’s decorated with an American flag and a bald eagle, and the legend THE CHOSEN LAND.]]
PARKER (offpanel): Look at that.
You KNOW it was designed by some callous jerk trying to cash in on honest folks’ patriotism.

[[Pan out to PARKER and DAVE doing something involving a ladle and a container inside a wooden frame.]]
PARKER: “Do you love America? Buy my worthless crap to prove it!”
DAVE: You don’t know that it was jerk-created!
What if the artist poured out his genuine feelings onto that plate?
Maybe there just happens to be a market of people wanting to express how much they share his sentiment!

PARKER: I guess I just wish more people would share MY sentiments.
DAVE: Well, who knows? Maybe they do!
Why not put out your OWN plate and see how it does?

[[Another commemorative plate, apparently PARKER’s. It says “EVERYONE PLEASE STOP BUYING SO MUCH WORTHLESS CRAP.”]]

{{Header: commemorate WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: sales are slow}}

#431; In which a Plate drives Parker to Anger transcribed by in

[[We see a commemorative plate on a stand. It's decorated with an American flag and a bald eagle, and the legend THE CHOSEN LAND.]]
PARKER (offpanel): Look at that.
You KNOW it was designed by some callous jerk trying to cash in on honest folks' patriotism.

[[Pan out to PARKER and DAVE doing something involving a ladle and a container inside a wooden frame.]]
PARKER: "Do you love America? Buy my worthless crap to prove it!"
DAVE: You don't know that it was jerk-created!
What if the artist poured out his genuine feelings onto that plate?
Maybe there just happens to be a market of people wanting to express how much they share his sentiment!

PARKER: I guess I just wish more people would share MY sentiments.
DAVE: Well, who knows? Maybe they do!
Why not put out your OWN plate and see how it does?

[[Another commemorative plate, apparently PARKER's. It says "EVERYONE PLEASE STOP BUYING SO MUCH WORTHLESS CRAP."]]

{{Header: commemorate WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: sales are slow}}

sales are slow

#431; In which a Plate drives Parker to Anger

  — August 5th, 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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