HEINRICH: Hugo! HERE you are! Why haven’t you reported back to the camp?
Everybody’s been LOOKING for you! SEARCH PARTIES are combing the swamp!

HUGO: I heard ’em.
They passed by maybe ten feet away.
Roughly speaking I mean I did not actually MEASURE.

HEINRICH: Well, why didn’t you SAY anything?
HUGO: I just figured ‘live and let live’

HUGO: I did not want to be presumptuous

HEINRICH: Hugo! HERE you are! Why haven’t you reported back to the camp?
Everybody’s been LOOKING for you! SEARCH PARTIES are combing the swamp!

HUGO: I heard ’em.
They passed by maybe ten feet away.
Roughly speaking I mean I did not actually MEASURE.

HEINRICH: Well, why didn’t you SAY anything?
HUGO: I just figured ‘live and let live’

HUGO: I did not want to be presumptuous

HEINRICH: Hugo! HERE you are! Why haven't you reported back to the camp?
Everybody's been LOOKING for you! SEARCH PARTIES are combing the swamp!

HUGO: I heard 'em.
They passed by maybe ten feet away.
Roughly speaking I mean I did not actually MEASURE.

HEINRICH: Well, why didn't you SAY anything?
HUGO: I just figured 'live and let live'

HUGO: I did not want to be presumptuous

they could have been looking for ANYONE named Hugo

#602; In which Hugo is lost

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20 years ago (in photocomic form)

June 9, 2026 by David Malki !

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!