{"id":1285,"date":"2007-05-09T21:39:45","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T21:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/3am-top-5-john-porcellino\/"},"modified":"2007-05-09T21:39:45","modified_gmt":"2007-05-09T21:39:45","slug":"3am-top-5-john-porcellino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/3am-top-5-john-porcellino\/","title":{"rendered":"3:AM Top 5: John Porcellino"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/207\/491722817_4f47397cdf_o.jpg\" alt=\"JohnPorcellino\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.king-cat.net\/\">John Porcellino<\/a>, creator of <i>King-Cat Comics<\/i> as well as the acclaimed <i>Diary Of A Mosquito Abatement Man<\/i>, has been described as  <i>&#8220;the Ramones of the 1990s minicomics movement&#8221;<\/i>. The autobiographical <b>King-Cat<\/b>, which takes its name from a <b>Lawrence Ferlinghetti<\/b> poem, has come a long way from its home-brewed origins in 1989: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drawnandquarterly.com\/artStudio.php?artist=a41e32df425aef\">Drawn &amp; Quarterly<\/a> have collected the first 50 issues into <i>King-Cat Classix<\/i> [you can read a review in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcj.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=603&amp;Itemid=70\">The Comics Journal<\/a>]. To celebrate <i>King-Cat Classix<\/i>\u2014and the original mini, which is still going strong\u2014John tells us he is currently listening to:<\/p>\n<p>1. &#8220;Mellow My Mind&#8221; &#8211; <b>Neil Young<\/b><br \/>\n2. &#8220;All My Rowdy Friends (Have Settled Down)&#8221; &#8211; <B>Hank Williams Jr.<\/b><br \/>\n3. &#8220;Brass In Pocket&#8221; &#8211; <b>The Pretenders<\/b><br \/>\n4. &#8220;Siberian Khatru&#8221; &#8211; <b>Yes<\/b><br \/>\n5. &#8220;Chapel of Love&#8221; \u00a0&#8211; <b>The Dixie Cups<\/b><\/p>\n<p>[<b>Image:<\/b> John Porcellino self-portrait]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Porcellino, creator of King-Cat Comics as well as the acclaimed Diary Of A Mosquito Abatement Man, has been described as &#8220;the Ramones of the 1990s minicomics movement&#8221;. The autobiographical King-Cat, which takes its name from a Lawrence Ferlinghetti poem, has come a long way from its home-brewed origins in 1989: Drawn &amp; Quarterly have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buzzwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}