CALVIN: The Internet is the GREAT CONNECTOR!
ISAAC: The Internet is the great POLARIZER.
CALVIN: Here's an example. JOE-BLOW WEIRDO had a traumatic childhood. Saw too many "Leprechaun" movies in strange contexts and now he's got a mild fetish for DWARVES IN HORROR MAKEUP.
Before the Internet, he's alone and miserable...but NOW he's on a message-board FULL of friendly, like-minded freaks reassuring each other that they don't need to conform to some marketing-driven farce of "NORMALITY" to be HAPPY!
ISAAC: That's JUST the danger! Before, his "mild fetish" might have ATROPHIED as he was forced to interact with society at large.
But instead, a chorus of encouragement from other lunatics STROKES his quirk into an OBSESSION that TAKES OVER his identity!
JOE: It's very RUDE talkin' about someone who ain't PART of the CONVERSATION!
ISAAC: Joe we are just using you as an EXAMPLE.
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{{Alt-text: Wrote this comic first, then went looking for images...found this one right away and was all like 'YESSSSSSSS'}}
Wrote this comic first, then went looking for images...found this one right away and was all like 'YESSSSSSSS'
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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