NANA: Do you want to make some cupcakes?
MIKEY [[a kid]]: Yes! I've been craving cupcakes!
NANA: Great! Let me get out the recipe -
MIKEY: Recipes are for the masses. Why do we have to be content with the recipe? Why can't we do something different?
NANA: We could put chocolate chips in the batter!
MIKEY: That is so childish and uninteresting! Just following a formula! I'm talking about making art. Taking risks. Shocking the senses with something complex and uncomfortable.
MIKEY: Nobody trusts the eater to be able to handle a cupcake with a darker, more unpleasant flavor! Everyone wants chocolate and vanilla and sugar, sugar, sugar. Life is not just sugar! Real life has vinegar and mustard and salt!
NANA: Is - is it okay if I just want some regular cupcakes that taste good?
MIKEY: Is it okay if I think you're SIMPLE
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{{alt-text: Hostess is the Michael Bay of cupcakes.}}
Hostess is the Michael Bay of cupcakes.
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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