Comic Transcripts

[[The strip consists of three photos of people hastily cut from a magazine and stapled to a sheet of paper. Boxes, text, and speech bubbles are drawn in sloppily by hand]]

[[A man receives a package. A monocle is drawn over his left eye, a top hat above his head. He is receiving a package from someone outside the scene.]]
WHATS THIS

[[A different photo of a much older person, again with a top hat and a monocle over the right eye (based on context it can be assumed that, in terms of the narrative, this is the same person.)]]
A FLYING MACHINE???
???

[[Another, much younger man, with a top hat and a monocle over his right eye, looks at a machine resembling a skateboard at the bottom of the panel.]]
WHAT FUN O
HO HO HO

[[Written below the strip:]]
BY BRIAN AGE 21

{{header: Guest comic by Brian, age 21}}
{{alt-text: Brian has distilled Wondermark to its very ESSENCE.}}

Guest comic by Brian, age 21 transcribed by in

[[The strip consists of three photos of people hastily cut from a magazine and stapled to a sheet of paper. Boxes, text, and speech bubbles are drawn in sloppily by hand]]

[[A man receives a package. A monocle is drawn over his left eye, a top hat above his head. He is receiving a package from someone outside the scene.]]
WHATS THIS

[[A different photo of a much older person, again with a top hat and a monocle over the right eye (based on context it can be assumed that, in terms of the narrative, this is the same person.)]]
A FLYING MACHINE???
???

[[Another, much younger man, with a top hat and a monocle over his right eye, looks at a machine resembling a skateboard at the bottom of the panel.]]
WHAT FUN O
HO HO HO

[[Written below the strip:]]
BY BRIAN AGE 21

{{header: Guest comic by Brian, age 21}}
{{alt-text: Brian has distilled Wondermark to its very ESSENCE.}}

Guest comic by Brian, age 21 transcribed by in

[[The strip consists of three photos of people hastily cut from a magazine and stapled to a sheet of paper. Boxes, text, and speech bubbles are drawn in sloppily by hand]]

[[A man receives a package. A monocle is drawn over his left eye, a top hat above his head. He is receiving a package from someone outside the scene.]]
WHATS THIS

[[A different photo of a much older person, again with a top hat and a monocle over the right eye (based on context it can be assumed that, in terms of the narrative, this is the same person.)]]
A FLYING MACHINE???
???

[[Another, much younger man, with a top hat and a monocle over his right eye, looks at a machine resembling a skateboard at the bottom of the panel.]]
WHAT FUN O
HO HO HO

[[Written below the strip:]]
BY BRIAN AGE 21

{{header: Guest comic by Brian, age 21}}
{{alt-text: Brian has distilled Wondermark to its very ESSENCE.}}

Brian has distilled Wondermark to its very ESSENCE.

Guest comic by Brian, age 21

  — April 1st, 2011

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This was given to me (by Brian himself) in Chicago last year! Its pithy-yet-piercing summation of everything Wondermark is and may ever be is chilling in its astuteness.

Thanks, Brian! I will put this on the fridge for everybody to enjoy. Good job!

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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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