WENDY: Honey, look! A gift shop! Can we take a peek? Just for a minute?
JULIO: Yes, on one condition: before you go in, as yourself what needs you have in life. Conceptualize all your distinct, legitimate voids. Keep them in mind. Any object in the gift shop must fulfill an existing need in order to come home with us. Hold fast to this standard, and we won't fill the house with crap to throw away later.
WENDY: I don't throw that stuff away!
JULIO: Yes. Yes, I know.
WENDY: Are you done being a souvenir grump? Can I look around now, your Highness?
JULIO: Hold to the standard! Only distinct needs!
[[EIGHT MONTHS LATER]]
QUENTIN: Somebody, help! I think she's having a stroke!
KATE: Quick! We need to find a novelty snow-globe of the Gateway Arch!
WENDY: SEE
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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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