OTTO: Sometimes I wonder about my money. Do I still have the first dollar I ever made? Is it still at the bottom of my checking account? I've never emptied it completely.
OTTO: Or do the oldest dollars get spent first? Keep them from moldering? In which case that first dollar must be super-long-gone. Not much I can do about it now.
EUGENE: What are you talking about.
EUGENE: Bank accounts are just numbers in a computer. They're a representational fiction, not discrete objects. It's all imaginary.
OTTO: So I do still have my first dollar? If it's all imaginary, then I imagine that I have it. Who's to tell me any different?
OTTO: In fact I decide that I still have ALL the significant dollars from my lifetime! My first paycheck AND my first fiction sale AND that refund I got from the IRS for being handsome!
EUGENE: When did you get a refund for being handsome?
OTTO: WHEN I JUST IMAGINED IT
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a fiat currency deserves a fiat history
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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