{{Special hand-drawn strip for April Fool's Day.}}
TITLE: MAALKIES!
[[An airship swings wildly from its gas bag.]]
VOICE: Whoa-oa!
VOICE 2: Hold 'er steady!
NOTE (below panel): With apologies and respect to Tony Millionaire
CAPTAIN: There's nothin' I can do! Somethin's fouling up my controls!
[[A BEAR IN AN ILL-FITTING HAT stalks away angrily.]]
BEAR: That rotten Maalki! is up to no good!
[[The BEAR sees the problem.]]
MAALKI!: My beard's in the sprockets again
[[There's also a bottom strip, just like MAAKIES.]]
TITLE: The Day I Met Tony Millionaire
[[Birds fly over waves.]]
[[MALKI! shows a strip to TONY MILLIONAIRE.]]
MALKI!: Here is a sample of "Wondermark!"
[[Birds fly over waves.]]
[[MILLIONAIRE examines the strip thoughtfully.]]
MILLIONAIRE: Hmmmm
[[The waves are in a bathtub. The birds are apparently painted on the wall.]]
[[MILLIONAIRE continues to study the strip as MALKI! waits nervously.]]
MILLIONAIRE (thinking): What is this garbage?
{{Header: dook dook dook at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: To be fair, I don't know that he was thinking that EXACTLY.}}
To be fair, I don't know that he was thinking that EXACTLY.
(Apologies to the great Tony Millionaire)
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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