BONNIE: You gonna say hi to the new kid?
GLEN: Nah. He's got nothing to offer.
BONNIE: What makes you think so?
Glen: Well?
GLEN: First I googled the slogan from that crazy patch on his brother's backpack. It's some obscure band with only like a hundred Facebook fans. Found his brother there, and of course he's friends with his brother.
GLEN: Now I got the correct spelling of his name: Guenters Kreiberscht. Googling that reveals an old Myspace blog.
GLEN: His Myspace username "Guent-To-The-Choppa" also shows up on an old Yu-Gi-Oh forum. That isn't online anymore, but the Internet Archive has a cached version.
GLEN: His posts there inform me about a new username: "Krei-Me-A-Riva," which has a Livejournal - and that has a link to a newish Tumblr.
GLEN: None of it gave me the sense that Yu-Gi-Oh McGee over there is anyone worth bothering with. I don't need friends who're less cool than I am.
BONNIE: ?I guess I should feel flattered?
GLEN: Well I mean
GLEN: You were grandfathered in
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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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