THE FIRST GUY: Nuts! I forgot to medicate myself at noon. What time is it now?
BILLY: Dunno! I don't have a watch.
THE FIRST GUY: Well, check your phone.
BILLY: Don't have one of those either.
THE FIRST GUY: How do you keep track of time?
BILLY: There's no place I have to be so precisely.
THE FIRST GUY: How do people get ahold of you?
BILLY: There's no one I need to talk to so urgently.
THE FIRST GUY: ...I don't know if that's pathetic or noble!
BILLY [[meekly]]: I just have nothing to do
{{header: wait around for WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: The first guy left his own phone in a swamp. It's better when he remembers the pills.}}
The first guy left his own phone in a swamp. It's better when he remembers the pills.
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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