MIKE: So, ah, how is it? Does it work okay?
BORIS: It’s a compass. It works fine. Does all the usual compass stuff.

MIKE: I hope you like it!
BORIS: Sure! It’s?nice! It can be my backup compass. For?the car. It can be my third backup car compass. That’s IMPORTANT!

MIKE: Oh, I was worried you already had one! DARN it!
BORIS: Well, I’m, uh?I’m a circleologist, Mike. I have about a hundred compasses.

BORIS: Most of which have come from you.
MIKE: I just never know what to get people.

[[header: the thought that counts at WONDERMARK.COM]]

[[alt-text: Circleology is like a more superstitious version of circleonomy.]]

MIKE: So, ah, how is it? Does it work okay?
BORIS: It’s a compass. It works fine. Does all the usual compass stuff.

MIKE: I hope you like it!
BORIS: Sure! It’s?nice! It can be my backup compass. For?the car. It can be my third backup car compass. That’s IMPORTANT!

MIKE: Oh, I was worried you already had one! DARN it!
BORIS: Well, I’m, uh?I’m a circleologist, Mike. I have about a hundred compasses.

BORIS: Most of which have come from you.
MIKE: I just never know what to get people.

[[header: the thought that counts at WONDERMARK.COM]]

[[alt-text: Circleology is like a more superstitious version of circleonomy.]]

MIKE: So, ah, how is it? Does it work okay?
BORIS: It's a compass. It works fine. Does all the usual compass stuff.

MIKE: I hope you like it!
BORIS: Sure! It's?nice! It can be my backup compass. For?the car. It can be my third backup car compass. That's IMPORTANT!

MIKE: Oh, I was worried you already had one! DARN it!
BORIS: Well, I'm, uh?I'm a circleologist, Mike. I have about a hundred compasses.

BORIS: Most of which have come from you.
MIKE: I just never know what to get people.

[[header: the thought that counts at WONDERMARK.COM]]

[[alt-text: Circleology is like a more superstitious version of circleonomy.]]

Circleology is like a more superstitious version of circleonomy.

#668; It’s the One Thing I Know

[ Tags: annoyances, science ] Permalink: https://wondermark.com/c/668/

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!