LARRY: Honey! You'll never believe it! It's incredible! They LOVE me!
JEANNE: Who loves you? For what? How could they?
LARRY: You remember that video. Of ME. From 1992.
JEANNE: THe one where you thrashed around making
LARRY [[interrupting]]:-MAKING BOAT NOISES for nineteen minutes! Yes! YES! PRECISELY! Somebody found it. EVERYBODY found it! It has EIGHT MILLION VIEWS ON YOUTUBE!
LARRY: They made a dance mix from my tugboat sounds! Then pretty girls with ukuleles did COVERS of the dance mix. HONEY. ANDY SAMBERG played ME on SNL. MAKING BOAT NOISES. THEY LOVE ME. THEY WANT WHAT I GOT.
[[LARRY stands outside, hawking his self-promoting merchandise.]]
SALTY: Actually what we loved was your LACK of self-awareness.
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{{alt-text: The video is called 'Wagner's Ring Cycle as Performed by a Tugboat'}}
The video is called 'Wagner's Ring Cycle as Performed by a Tugboat'
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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