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DIANE: ?baby, this is going to be your wedding, too! What do you want?
BART: You’ve been asking me that for months and I think I finally have the answer. A COURTROOM SKETCH ARTIST.

BART: Think about the weddings we’ve attended recently. Apparently everybody believes the event will be criminally under-documented. Everyone’s watching the ceremony through their camera. Might as well be watching on TV. At our wedding, we collect cameras at the door. We FRISK people.

BART: That way, the attendees can actually be present! Meanwhile, the sketch artist will sit in the corner and capture impressions of the ceremony. Later on we’ll send everybody a booklet of the drawings. Moments filtered in chalk, not razor-sharp photos of everybody’s dandruff.

DIANE: I see the appeal, but there’s a strange stilted undercurrent of being treated like criminals at our wedding.
BART: Fine, NEW idea – we dress like bank robbers and the minister is the flustered bank manager. The attendees all have to like on the floor and be very quiet NO HEROES

[[header: take it in at WONDERMARK.COM]]

[[alt-text: we do it in a bank and we rob the bank]]

#665; Seconds before the Elopement transcribed by in

DIANE: ?baby, this is going to be your wedding, too! What do you want?
BART: You’ve been asking me that for months and I think I finally have the answer. A COURTROOM SKETCH ARTIST.

BART: Think about the weddings we’ve attended recently. Apparently everybody believes the event will be criminally under-documented. Everyone’s watching the ceremony through their camera. Might as well be watching on TV. At our wedding, we collect cameras at the door. We FRISK people.

BART: That way, the attendees can actually be present! Meanwhile, the sketch artist will sit in the corner and capture impressions of the ceremony. Later on we’ll send everybody a booklet of the drawings. Moments filtered in chalk, not razor-sharp photos of everybody’s dandruff.

DIANE: I see the appeal, but there’s a strange stilted undercurrent of being treated like criminals at our wedding.
BART: Fine, NEW idea – we dress like bank robbers and the minister is the flustered bank manager. The attendees all have to like on the floor and be very quiet NO HEROES

[[header: take it in at WONDERMARK.COM]]

[[alt-text: we do it in a bank and we rob the bank]]

#665; Seconds before the Elopement transcribed by in

DIANE: ?baby, this is going to be your wedding, too! What do you want?
BART: You've been asking me that for months and I think I finally have the answer. A COURTROOM SKETCH ARTIST.

BART: Think about the weddings we've attended recently. Apparently everybody believes the event will be criminally under-documented. Everyone's watching the ceremony through their camera. Might as well be watching on TV. At our wedding, we collect cameras at the door. We FRISK people.

BART: That way, the attendees can actually be present! Meanwhile, the sketch artist will sit in the corner and capture impressions of the ceremony. Later on we'll send everybody a booklet of the drawings. Moments filtered in chalk, not razor-sharp photos of everybody's dandruff.

DIANE: I see the appeal, but there's a strange stilted undercurrent of being treated like criminals at our wedding.
BART: Fine, NEW idea - we dress like bank robbers and the minister is the flustered bank manager. The attendees all have to like on the floor and be very quiet NO HEROES

[[header: take it in at WONDERMARK.COM]]

[[alt-text: we do it in a bank and we rob the bank]]

we do it in a bank and we rob the bank

#665; Seconds before the Elopement

  — October 12th, 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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