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BRIGHAM: Oh, man. Too much Thanksgiving turkey.
About to fall into a TRYPTOPHAN COMA!

[[SGT. MITCHELL enters, hands BRIGHAM a slip of paper.]]
BRIGHAM: What’s this?
MITCHELL: You get one written warning.
BRIGHAM: About…?
MITCHELL: The staleness of your wisecracks.

BRIGHAM: Wh–what am I being warned will HAPPEN?
MITCHELL: This is our Humor Enforcement Agent, Officer Snapwelter.
[[SNAPWELTER is a squid, wearing a policeman’s helmet and sitting in a metal canister in a wheeled wicker carriage.]]

[[BRIGHAM watches MITCHELL leave, looking away from SNAPWELTER.]]

BRIGHAM: Hey, if you’re so worried about stuff being STALE, you need to look into UNCLE BOB’S FRUITCAKE!
[[Tentacles reach for him as he speaks.]]

{{Header: in accordance with WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: Hey, Bob, that fruitcake was great!! AS A DOORSTOP!!!}}

#574; There Must be Rules transcribed by in

BRIGHAM: Oh, man. Too much Thanksgiving turkey.
About to fall into a TRYPTOPHAN COMA!

[[SGT. MITCHELL enters, hands BRIGHAM a slip of paper.]]
BRIGHAM: What’s this?
MITCHELL: You get one written warning.
BRIGHAM: About…?
MITCHELL: The staleness of your wisecracks.

BRIGHAM: Wh–what am I being warned will HAPPEN?
MITCHELL: This is our Humor Enforcement Agent, Officer Snapwelter.
[[SNAPWELTER is a squid, wearing a policeman’s helmet and sitting in a metal canister in a wheeled wicker carriage.]]

[[BRIGHAM watches MITCHELL leave, looking away from SNAPWELTER.]]

BRIGHAM: Hey, if you’re so worried about stuff being STALE, you need to look into UNCLE BOB’S FRUITCAKE!
[[Tentacles reach for him as he speaks.]]

{{Header: in accordance with WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: Hey, Bob, that fruitcake was great!! AS A DOORSTOP!!!}}

#574; There Must be Rules transcribed by in

BRIGHAM: Oh, man. Too much Thanksgiving turkey.
About to fall into a TRYPTOPHAN COMA!

[[SGT. MITCHELL enters, hands BRIGHAM a slip of paper.]]
BRIGHAM: What's this?
MITCHELL: You get one written warning.
BRIGHAM: About...?
MITCHELL: The staleness of your wisecracks.

BRIGHAM: Wh--what am I being warned will HAPPEN?
MITCHELL: This is our Humor Enforcement Agent, Officer Snapwelter.
[[SNAPWELTER is a squid, wearing a policeman's helmet and sitting in a metal canister in a wheeled wicker carriage.]]

[[BRIGHAM watches MITCHELL leave, looking away from SNAPWELTER.]]

BRIGHAM: Hey, if you're so worried about stuff being STALE, you need to look into UNCLE BOB'S FRUITCAKE!
[[Tentacles reach for him as he speaks.]]

{{Header: in accordance with WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: Hey, Bob, that fruitcake was great!! AS A DOORSTOP!!!}}

Hey Bob, that fruitcake was great!! AS A DOORSTOP!!!

#574; There Must be Rules

  — November 27th, 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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