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#778; A Tough Day for Martin

Fat lady in fur coat: …And I suppose you’re late with the rent -again- this month?
Spineless Marvin: Yes ma’am I’m sorry something came up
Marvin: See I got this call from my mom – she needed money real bad on account of a -tooth issue-

Marvin: By which I mean an issue of -Tooth Magazine- which is rare and increasingly hard to find on the secondary market
Marvin: She stumbled upon a good-condition April ’82 and, -well-, I’m her -boy-, she raised me with certain -values-, never to pass up an opportunity and so forth

Marvin (sweating): Anyway I sent her my rent money for the month, but she promised that she would photocopy several pages of the periodical for you
Marvin: Both for you to see that it truly is a quality piece and also just for you to keep as far as general enjoyment is concerned

[[LATER, AFTER HAVING READ THE MAGAZINE IN QUESTION]]
Fat lady: You tell your mother to get me page 64 so I can finish that article on tartar or so help me you’ll be on the street
Marvin: Please, Miz Dunlap, you are yelling at the world’s most broken man

{{header: snatch up WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: Tooth Magazine folded in ’89 when advertisers withdrew their support following the publishing of a controversial illustration featuring C. Everett Koop driving a bulldozer through Tianenmen Square. The caption: ‘FLUORIDE UBER ALLES’}}

#778; A Tough Day for Martin transcribed by in

#778; A Tough Day for Martin

Fat lady in fur coat: …And I suppose you’re late with the rent -again- this month?
Spineless Marvin: Yes ma’am I’m sorry something came up
Marvin: See I got this call from my mom – she needed money real bad on account of a -tooth issue-

Marvin: By which I mean an issue of -Tooth Magazine- which is rare and increasingly hard to find on the secondary market
Marvin: She stumbled upon a good-condition April ’82 and, -well-, I’m her -boy-, she raised me with certain -values-, never to pass up an opportunity and so forth

Marvin (sweating): Anyway I sent her my rent money for the month, but she promised that she would photocopy several pages of the periodical for you
Marvin: Both for you to see that it truly is a quality piece and also just for you to keep as far as general enjoyment is concerned

[[LATER, AFTER HAVING READ THE MAGAZINE IN QUESTION]]
Fat lady: You tell your mother to get me page 64 so I can finish that article on tartar or so help me you’ll be on the street
Marvin: Please, Miz Dunlap, you are yelling at the world’s most broken man

{{header: snatch up WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: Tooth Magazine folded in ’89 when advertisers withdrew their support following the publishing of a controversial illustration featuring C. Everett Koop driving a bulldozer through Tianenmen Square. The caption: ‘FLUORIDE UBER ALLES’}}

#778; A Tough Day for Martin transcribed by in

#778; A Tough Day for Martin

Fat lady in fur coat: ...And I suppose you're late with the rent -again- this month?
Spineless Marvin: Yes ma'am I'm sorry something came up
Marvin: See I got this call from my mom - she needed money real bad on account of a -tooth issue-

Marvin: By which I mean an issue of -Tooth Magazine- which is rare and increasingly hard to find on the secondary market
Marvin: She stumbled upon a good-condition April '82 and, -well-, I'm her -boy-, she raised me with certain -values-, never to pass up an opportunity and so forth

Marvin (sweating): Anyway I sent her my rent money for the month, but she promised that she would photocopy several pages of the periodical for you
Marvin: Both for you to see that it truly is a quality piece and also just for you to keep as far as general enjoyment is concerned

[[LATER, AFTER HAVING READ THE MAGAZINE IN QUESTION]]
Fat lady: You tell your mother to get me page 64 so I can finish that article on tartar or so help me you'll be on the street
Marvin: Please, Miz Dunlap, you are yelling at the world's most broken man

{{header: snatch up WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: Tooth Magazine folded in '89 when advertisers withdrew their support following the publishing of a controversial illustration featuring C. Everett Koop driving a bulldozer through Tianenmen Square. The caption: 'FLUORIDE UBER ALLES'}}

Tooth Magazine folded in '89 when advertisers withdrew their support following the publishing of a controversial illustration featuring C. Everett Koop driving a bulldozer through Tianenmen Square. The caption: 'FLUORIDE UBER ALLES'

20 years ago (in photocomic form)

A young David Malki !, Steve Carey, and Ryan North, June 2006.

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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