Sometimes, I'll read something—a story, a page, a single panel—and realize that an artist I've never met has tapped into a part of my life, rendering it for a worldwide audience.
Or as Roberta Flack sang,
I felt all flushed with fever, embarrassed by the crowd,
I felt he found my letters and read each one out loud.
Of course, one usually hopes that it wouldn't be as embarrassing as the page that spoke to me in Craig Thompson's Carnet De Voyage. This was my life from 1997 to 2002:
(Click to see the full page.)
I laughed until I stopped[1].
From the same book, here are some adorable porcupines:
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[1] For further hilarity, see also: John Hodgman's The Areas of My Expertise. The list of 700 hobo names is of particular interest to those conversant in the nerdly arts.
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