RUDY: Nice haircut!
KEN: Thanks, you too! I love my barber. He just knows my hair. It's amazing what he can do.
RUDY: Do you go to some expensive place? I can never justify spending more than about eight dollars on a haircut. Haircuts make me anxious.
KEN: Maybe it's because you're not getting sufficient haircut value! Here's how I figure the math on the subject...
KEN [narrating an illustrated mathematical formula]: If you spend eight bucks and the haircut looks good for two weeks, that cut has a Haircut Value Index of point five seven.
KEN [still narrating]: But if I spend forty dollars on a primo haircut that'll look good for two months, that has an H.V.I. of point six five. When you amortize the cost over how long you'll look sharp, it's not so expensive after all!
ARVID: I cut my own hair with an old steak knife that I dip in tractor oil ARE YOU TELLING ME YOU CAN PLACE A VALUE ON THAT
KEN: I - I do admit that the model cannot accommodate a divide-by-zero error
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{{alt-text: most things you do with tractor oil don't really fit into traditional ways of thinking about haircuts}}
most things you do with tractor oil don't really fit into traditional ways of thinking about haircuts
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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