Comic Transcripts

[[A bear is rushing forward]]
Bear: GANGWAY

[[Bear is shown to be riding a penny-farthing at high speed past a woman]]
Bear: Outta my way I got a race to win
<>

[[Bear off-panel; a manatee lying on a skateboard approaches the same woman]]
Manatee: Come back
Manatee: Come..
Manatee: *Ghhuuhhh*
Manatee: Come
Manatee: BACK
Woman: You can do it!

Woman: What’s the race about?
Manatee: We’re not racing, we’re making sense of the essential futility of life in dissimilar ways
Manatee: Also he stole my bike

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{{alt-text: Hearsay. Don’t trust him. Root for the bear. It’s the only logical choice.}}

#791; The Subjective Event transcribed by in

[[A bear is rushing forward]]
Bear: GANGWAY

[[Bear is shown to be riding a penny-farthing at high speed past a woman]]
Bear: Outta my way I got a race to win
<>

[[Bear off-panel; a manatee lying on a skateboard approaches the same woman]]
Manatee: Come back
Manatee: Come..
Manatee: *Ghhuuhhh*
Manatee: Come
Manatee: BACK
Woman: You can do it!

Woman: What’s the race about?
Manatee: We’re not racing, we’re making sense of the essential futility of life in dissimilar ways
Manatee: Also he stole my bike

{{header: make way for WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: Hearsay. Don’t trust him. Root for the bear. It’s the only logical choice.}}

#791; The Subjective Event transcribed by in

[[A bear is rushing forward]]
Bear: GANGWAY

[[Bear is shown to be riding a penny-farthing at high speed past a woman]]
Bear: Outta my way I got a race to win
<>

[[Bear off-panel; a manatee lying on a skateboard approaches the same woman]]
Manatee: Come back
Manatee: Come..
Manatee: *Ghhuuhhh*
Manatee: Come
Manatee: BACK
Woman: You can do it!

Woman: What's the race about?
Manatee: We're not racing, we're making sense of the essential futility of life in dissimilar ways
Manatee: Also he stole my bike

{{header: make way for WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: Hearsay. Don't trust him. Root for the bear. It's the only logical choice.}}

Hearsay. Don't trust him. Root for the bear. It's the only logical choice.

#791; The Subjective Event

  — January 24th, 2012

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20 years ago (in photocomic form)

June 9, 2026 by David Malki !
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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