Comic Transcripts

ROB (offpanel): Thinking about midnight pancakes. You want to come?
DARLA: Nah, I want to finish this reading.

ROB (leaning over the book): READING! Of COURSE!
The most thrilling of ALL known pursuits!
LOOK at all those fascinating words! The paper is positively THICK with ’em!

ROB (leaning closer): But oh NO!
THE EDGE OF THE PAGE APPROACHETH!
What’s going to HAPPEN to all those helpless WORDS?
LEAP for it, little ones! LEAP INTO THE NEXT CHAPTER!

ROB (leaning even closer): SAAAAAVE YOURSELLLVES
DARLA: THIS is why I READ.
To ESCAPE.

{{Header: lose yourself in WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-Text: Probably shouldn’t have been re-reading the ol’ diary, then}}

#510; In which Rob tries to read transcribed by in

ROB (offpanel): Thinking about midnight pancakes. You want to come?
DARLA: Nah, I want to finish this reading.

ROB (leaning over the book): READING! Of COURSE!
The most thrilling of ALL known pursuits!
LOOK at all those fascinating words! The paper is positively THICK with ’em!

ROB (leaning closer): But oh NO!
THE EDGE OF THE PAGE APPROACHETH!
What’s going to HAPPEN to all those helpless WORDS?
LEAP for it, little ones! LEAP INTO THE NEXT CHAPTER!

ROB (leaning even closer): SAAAAAVE YOURSELLLVES
DARLA: THIS is why I READ.
To ESCAPE.

{{Header: lose yourself in WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-Text: Probably shouldn’t have been re-reading the ol’ diary, then}}

#510; In which Rob tries to read transcribed by in

ROB (offpanel): Thinking about midnight pancakes. You want to come?
DARLA: Nah, I want to finish this reading.

ROB (leaning over the book): READING! Of COURSE!
The most thrilling of ALL known pursuits!
LOOK at all those fascinating words! The paper is positively THICK with 'em!

ROB (leaning closer): But oh NO!
THE EDGE OF THE PAGE APPROACHETH!
What's going to HAPPEN to all those helpless WORDS?
LEAP for it, little ones! LEAP INTO THE NEXT CHAPTER!

ROB (leaning even closer): SAAAAAVE YOURSELLLVES
DARLA: THIS is why I READ.
To ESCAPE.

{{Header: lose yourself in WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-Text: Probably shouldn't have been re-reading the ol' diary, then}}

Probably shouldn't have been re-reading the ol' diary, then

20 years ago (in photocomic form)

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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