FRANCINE (singing): L.J. Snow, the Ford Man
He's your friendly Ford deeealer
Interstate 10 at the Pepper offramp...
MARTHA (joining in): ...L.J. Snow for trucks!
FRANCINE and MARTHA (in chorus): SNOW'S THE PLACE TO GO!
MARTHA: Isn't it weird how car-dealership jingles are implanted more firmly than pretty much anything else we learned as a child?
FRANCINE: And they always include the location. No other jingle tells you where to PHYSICALLY GO AND GET the product.
It's an odd thing to emphasize. Are we expected to just HEAD OVER and start BROWSING?
MARTHA: Right. Nowadays everyone researches every purchase obsessively online.
FRANCINE (sings): JIM MILLER'S DISCOUNT ISUZU! CHECK US OOOUT ON YELP.
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I guarantee I will never buy a car from the Cerritos Auto Center but boy can I give you some snappy directions to it.
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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