{"id":193,"date":"2007-11-13T12:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/2007\/11\/recurring-themes\/"},"modified":"2007-11-13T12:29:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T17:29:00","slug":"recurring-themes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"Recurring Themes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we wait for Dan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/we-love-frank_24.html\">promised post<\/a> on Spiegelman and Griffith&#8217;s great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readyourselfraw.com\/recommended\/rec_alanmoore\/arcade\/arcade.htm\">Arcade<\/a> anthologies, I thought I&#8217;d put up this classic Robert Crumb cover from <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Arcade<\/span> 3. I&#8217;d forgotten that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnnyr.com\/\">Johnny Ryan<\/a> wasn&#8217;t the first cartoonist to <strike>tackle<\/strike> parody the falling-leaf-as-profound-symbol thing. <\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp0.blogger.com\/_2v-Vwo5ul9Y\/RznfI0R2ePI\/AAAAAAAAAQE\/BEreN8E1YVQ\/s1600-h\/arcade3%255B2%255D.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp0.blogger.com\/_2v-Vwo5ul9Y\/RznfI0R2ePI\/AAAAAAAAAQE\/BEreN8E1YVQ\/s400\/arcade3%255B2%255D.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5132378592930855154\" \/><\/a><br \/>Of course, I doubt Crumb was the first, either, but that&#8217;s not important when I have an opportunity to publicly goad Dan into posting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we wait for Dan&#8217;s promised post on Spiegelman and Griffith&#8217;s great Arcade anthologies, I thought I&#8217;d put up this classic Robert Crumb cover from Arcade 3. I&#8217;d forgotten that Johnny Ryan wasn&#8217;t the first cartoonist to tackle parody the falling-leaf-as-profound-symbol thing. Of course, I doubt Crumb was the first, either, but that&#8217;s not important when I have an opportunity to publicly goad Dan into posting.<\/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":[78,118,707,1068],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-spiegelman","tag-griffith","tag-ryan","tag-r-crumb"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","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=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}