{"id":128,"date":"2007-05-31T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T01:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/2007\/05\/this-shouldnt-be\/"},"modified":"2007-05-31T20:24:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-01T01:24:00","slug":"this-shouldnt-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=128","title":{"rendered":"This Shouldn’t Be!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5070901547922388722\"<\/a>I hope this doesn’t mean that Fantagraphics is having trouble selling their absolutely amazing E.C. Segar Popeye collection<\/a> (because I really<\/span> need them to finish publishing the entire strip), but the book is currently selling for an unbelievably low $5.99 on Amazon<\/a> right now. If you haven’t read this book, you are missing out on something truly wonderful.<\/p>\n

(via The Forager Blog<\/a>)<\/p>\n

UPDATE: As Aaron White points out in the comments, Kim Thompson at Fantagraphics says<\/a> that everything is fine, and that this sale “does NOT mean that we’re remaindering copies, or that the book is doing badly — in fact, POPEYE VOLUME 1 was our third best-seller for 2006, behind that year’s two PEANUTS books.” Jacob Covey confirms<\/a>.<\/p>\n

UPDATE II: And apparently, the big promotion is already over, and it’s back up to around $20. Still a bargain, though, really.<\/p>\n

UPDATE III: I’m sure these sales won’t last much longer either, but two other near-essential volumes are 80% off right now: Carol Tyler’s Late Bloomer<\/a>, and Gene Deitch’s Terr’ble Thompson<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I hope this doesn’t mean that Fantagraphics is having trouble selling their absolutely amazing E.C. Segar Popeye collection (because I really need them to finish publishing the entire strip), but the book is currently selling for an unbelievably low $5.99 on Amazon right now. If you haven’t read this book, you are missing out on something truly wonderful. (via The Forager Blog) UPDATE: As Aaron White points out in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[204,260,385,486,585],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tyler","tag-comic-strips","tag-segar","tag-g-deitch","tag-incredible-savings"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}