{"id":8745,"date":"2009-05-14T21:41:17","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T21:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/?p=8745"},"modified":"2009-05-14T21:41:17","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T21:41:17","slug":"the-funnies-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/the-funnies-45\/","title":{"rendered":"The Funnies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/mothercomehome.jpg\" alt=\"mothercomehome\" title=\"mothercomehome\" width=\"296\" height=\"211\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8747\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The biggest <B>Tintin<\/b> page <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/travel\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=7&#038;objectid=10571209\">in the world<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/thedailycrosshatch.com\/2009\/05\/11\/the-cross-hatch-dispatch-51109\/#more-3658\">Daily Cross Hatch<\/a>) + The <a href=\"http:\/\/thedailycrosshatch.com\/2009\/05\/11\/by-art-spiegelman-by-art-spiegelman\/#more-3649\">Daily Cross Hatch<\/a> review <b>Art Spiegelman<\/b>&#8216;s <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/2009\/2\/25beanose.html\">Be a Nose<\/i><\/a> + <a href=\"http:\/\/robot6.comicbookresources.com\/2009\/05\/talking-comics-with-tim-bob-fingerman\/\">Robot 6<\/a> interview <b>Bob Fingerman<\/b>: <I>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/pwbeat.publishersweekly.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/30\/exclusive-preview-from-the-ashes-1\/\">Doing comics<\/a> definitely influenced the way I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/buzzwordsblog\/2006\/11\/3am-review-bottomfeeder.html\">the novel<\/a>.&#8221;<\/i> + And <b>Fingerman<\/b> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsarama.com\/comics\/050913-Ashes-Fingerman.html\">Newsarama<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreporter.com\/\">Comics Reporter<\/a>) + <i>Arthur<\/i> magazine are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arthurmag.com\/contributors\/comics\/\">running excerpts<\/a> from Jeff Lint&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/\/the-bitter-stillness-of-jack-marsden\/\"><i>The Caterer<\/i><\/a> + The graphic novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgravett.com\/articles\/128_gn\/128_gn.htm\">in Europe<\/a>: <i>Who would have thought that <b>Goethe<\/b> was perhaps the first comics &#8216;fan&#8217;? And their first theoretician and champion was <b>T\u00c3\u00b6pffer<\/b> himself, who by 1845, the year before his death, felt confident enough about the significance of his work to write the first essay explaining and defending comics. For a variety of reasons, however, the medium would take some time to live up to those great expectations, let alone surpass them.<\/i> + <b>Oliver East<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/forbiddenplanet.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11948\">talks<\/a> <i>Proper Go Well High<\/i>: <I>&#8220;I&#8217;m very happy with the person in the first panel. Without fail every person in<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/trainsare.blogspot.com\/\">Trains [Are Mint]<\/a><i> is terribly drawn, mainly because I was trying to draw people, so in<\/i> Proper <i>I stopped trying and just did it and I&#8217;ve almost succeeded here.&#8221;<\/i> + <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omnivoracious.com\/2009\/05\/eccc-2009-interview-with-jaime-hernandez.html\">Omnivoracious<\/a> talk to <b>Jaime Hernandez<\/b>: <i>&#8220;I&#8217;ve always like being friends with women. Besides liking to draw them, there&#8217;s just something about women\u2014they&#8217;re very interesting creatures, for lack of a better term.&#8221;<\/i> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcj.com\/journalista\/\">Journalista!<\/a>) + <b>Neil Gaiman<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldfamouscomics.com\/bakersdozen\/back20090506.shtml\">looks back over<\/a> <i>Sandman<\/i>: <I>&#8220;What I created was a shape of comic that allowed me to do anything that I wanted. And if I wanted to do science fiction, I could have done science fiction.&#8221;<\/i> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcj.com\/journalista\/\">same<\/a>) + A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/news\/oregonian\/steve_duin\/index.ssf\/2009\/04\/paul_hornschemeier_and_the_gia.html\">review<\/a> of the recent <b>Paul Hornschemeier<\/b> exhibition &#8216;Cloistered in Crowds&#8217; + And <a href=\"http:\/\/thecomiccast.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/28\/its-not-easy-being-green-lantern\/\">Comic Cast<\/a> on <b>Paul Hornschemeier<\/b>&#8216;s re-released <i>Mother, Come Home<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest Tintin page in the world (via Daily Cross Hatch) + The Daily Cross Hatch review Art Spiegelman&#8216;s Be a Nose + Robot 6 interview Bob Fingerman: &#8220;Doing comics definitely influenced the way I wrote the novel.&#8221; + And Fingerman at Newsarama (via Comics Reporter) + Arthur magazine are running excerpts from Jeff Lint&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buzzwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8745","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=8745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}