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[[Two ladies are watching their children at play. A boy runs by with a fishing rod.]]
SHIRLEY: Oh, do be CAREFUL with that, Muffin!
The boys are roughhousing so! Someone’s going to get HURT!
LAVERNE: LET ’em!

LAVERNE: You can’t SHELTER kids forever! They’ve got to learn to pick themselves UP when they fall!
You gotta teach self-reliance! A few bumps and bruises are GOOD for a kid!
[[Another boy runs by with a pig under his arm.]]

[[LAVERNE’S son appears. His head is missing and blood spurts from the stump.]]
LAVERNE: WALK IT OFF!

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{{Alt-text: okay if you could just uh point me in the right direction}}

#480; In which Youths cavort transcribed by in

[[Two ladies are watching their children at play. A boy runs by with a fishing rod.]]
SHIRLEY: Oh, do be CAREFUL with that, Muffin!
The boys are roughhousing so! Someone’s going to get HURT!
LAVERNE: LET ’em!

LAVERNE: You can’t SHELTER kids forever! They’ve got to learn to pick themselves UP when they fall!
You gotta teach self-reliance! A few bumps and bruises are GOOD for a kid!
[[Another boy runs by with a pig under his arm.]]

[[LAVERNE’S son appears. His head is missing and blood spurts from the stump.]]
LAVERNE: WALK IT OFF!

{{Header: go play at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: okay if you could just uh point me in the right direction}}

#480; In which Youths cavort transcribed by in

[[Two ladies are watching their children at play. A boy runs by with a fishing rod.]]
SHIRLEY: Oh, do be CAREFUL with that, Muffin!
The boys are roughhousing so! Someone's going to get HURT!
LAVERNE: LET 'em!

LAVERNE: You can't SHELTER kids forever! They've got to learn to pick themselves UP when they fall!
You gotta teach self-reliance! A few bumps and bruises are GOOD for a kid!
[[Another boy runs by with a pig under his arm.]]

[[LAVERNE'S son appears. His head is missing and blood spurts from the stump.]]
LAVERNE: WALK IT OFF!

{{Header: go play at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: okay if you could just uh point me in the right direction}}

okay if you could just uh point me in the right direction

#480; In which Youths cavort

  — January 13th, 2009

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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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