{"id":1933,"date":"2010-04-08T11:54:38","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T15:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=1933"},"modified":"2010-04-08T11:54:38","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T15:54:38","slug":"the-cave-that-keeps-you-captive-has-no-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=1933","title":{"rendered":"The Cave That Keeps You Captive Has No Doors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1oDTNEEu3Rw&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>We are constantly in training here at the <em>Comics Comics<\/em> mansion, keeping the Danger Room busy while always trying to hone our critical acumen, broaden our coverage, and sharpen our skills. We vow never to stop improving, growing, and providing better philosophical funny-page fodder. As the song says, &#8220;Time will not allow you to stop still. No.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As you probably noticed, <a href=\"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/2010\/04\/dorothy-iannone.html\">yesterday<\/a> a brilliant writer made her debut as a new occasional contributor to the <em>Comics Comics<\/em> juggernaut. For those who don&#8217;t know, Nicole Rudick is a freelance writer and critic. She formerly worked at <em>Bookforum<\/em>, and was responsible for commissioning much of the great comics content there in recent years, including hiring a bunch of us from here, including myself, Dan, Jog, and Jeet. She&#8217;s also interviewed cartoonists such as <a href=\"http:\/\/wordswithoutborders.org\/article\/taken-from-life-an-interview-with-gipi\/\">Gipi<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.believermag.com\/issues\/200710\/?read=interview_tomine\">Adrian Tomine<\/a>, and Dan Clowes, among others. (The Clowes interview will appear in an upcoming issue of <em>The Believer<\/em>.) She is sure to be a great addition to the site.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are constantly in training here at the Comics Comics mansion, keeping the Danger Room busy while always trying to hone our critical acumen, broaden our coverage, and sharpen our skills. We vow never to stop improving, growing, and providing better philosophical funny-page fodder. As the song says, &#8220;Time will not allow you to stop still. No.&#8221; As you probably noticed, yesterday a brilliant writer made her debut as a [&hellip;]<\/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":[3],"tags":[148,262,968],"class_list":["post-1933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-bookforum","tag-comics-comics","tag-nicole-rudick"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933","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=1933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}