Lady: Ahh, I cut my finger on this stupid zipper!
Lady: I guess I gotta be more careful.
Lawyer: Perhaps the zipper is at fault! Are you hurt badly?
Lady: No, in fact it's already healed.
Lawyer: Any zipper that can nick flesh might also maim flesh!
Lawyer: And millions of people use these dangerous zippers every day! The potential for serious injury is staggering.
Lawyer: Would you be interested in participating in a class action? To punish the zipper company for is cavalier pursuit of never-ending profits at the expense of ordinary, hardworking, zipper-reliant citizens like yourself?
Lawyer: You could be entitled to a cash settlement. With enough defendants, we'd be talking about millions.
[[Three years later]]
Lawyer: Good news! The court has ordered the Y.K.K. Zipper Corporation to pay fifty million dollars!
Lawyer: Split among two million defendants, that's a cool nine bucks cash for your, my friend!
Woman: ... That only accounts for eighteen million dollars. What about the rest.
Lawyer: Well, you know.
Lawyer: FEES
{{header: settle up with WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: Look, I got problems too! This settlement has pushed me into a very inconvenient tax bracket!}}
Look, I got problems too! This settlement has pushed me into a very inconvenient tax bracket!
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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