Comic Transcripts

[[A shop.]]
BOB: You still working on that? Knock it off. I gotta lock up. Your plank storage unit looks swell. Let’s go home.

LEN: It’s not right, though. It’s not perfect.
BOB: It’s fine.
LEN: I’m not after fine. I’m after delightfully amazing. I know it can be better.

BOB: You’re working too hard. Stop it. Nobody cares. You are the only one who can tell the difference. We’re worried about you. You’re breaking your back digging your own grave.

LEN: I want my epitaph to be “Doggone if he wasn’t trying his best.”
BOB: I want mine to be “We buried what pieces we could find.”

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#624; The Persistence of Work transcribed by in

[[A shop.]]
BOB: You still working on that? Knock it off. I gotta lock up. Your plank storage unit looks swell. Let’s go home.

LEN: It’s not right, though. It’s not perfect.
BOB: It’s fine.
LEN: I’m not after fine. I’m after delightfully amazing. I know it can be better.

BOB: You’re working too hard. Stop it. Nobody cares. You are the only one who can tell the difference. We’re worried about you. You’re breaking your back digging your own grave.

LEN: I want my epitaph to be “Doggone if he wasn’t trying his best.”
BOB: I want mine to be “We buried what pieces we could find.”

{{header: keep at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: The people who can TELL the difference are the people this is FOR.}}

#624; The Persistence of Work transcribed by in

[[A shop.]]
BOB: You still working on that? Knock it off. I gotta lock up. Your plank storage unit looks swell. Let's go home.

LEN: It's not right, though. It's not perfect.
BOB: It's fine.
LEN: I'm not after fine. I'm after delightfully amazing. I know it can be better.

BOB: You're working too hard. Stop it. Nobody cares. You are the only one who can tell the difference. We're worried about you. You're breaking your back digging your own grave.

LEN: I want my epitaph to be "Doggone if he wasn't trying his best."
BOB: I want mine to be "We buried what pieces we could find."

{{header: keep at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: The people who can TELL the difference are the people this is FOR.}}

The people who can TELL the difference are the people this is FOR.

#624; The Persistence of Work

  — May 21st, 2010

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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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