{"id":21,"date":"2006-06-14T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/2006\/06\/our-invasion-of-the-nations-cultural-consciousness-begins\/"},"modified":"2006-06-14T11:10:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-14T16:10:00","slug":"our-invasion-of-nations-cultural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Our Invasion of the Nation&#8217;s Cultural Consciousness Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this week&#8217;s issue of the trade newspaper <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Advertising Age<\/span>, &#8220;Media Guy&#8221; Simon Dumenco has astutely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adage.com\/columns\/article?article_id=109801\">chosen<\/a> this publication as his current &#8220;Pop Pick&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;Comics Comics&#8217; ($5 by Internet order) is a new mini-mag that &#8220;aims to document contemporary and past comics, from a pluralistic, affectionate, but critical standpoint.&#8221; If that sounds a little heady, well, it is\u2013and things get equally quasi-scholarly at comicscomicsmag.blogspot.com, where you can find loving meditations on the artistry of greats such as Scrooge McDuck father Carl Banks [sic]. But you don&#8217;t have to be a comics nerd to get inspired by the beautiful art. &#8230; <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Comics Comics<\/span> shares creators and contributors with <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Ganzfeld<\/span>, an art annual &#8230; that shares a similar passion for thinky illustration. Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theganzfeld.com\/\">theganzfeld.com<\/a> and roll your mouse over the letters of the logo to view a supercool animation by Flash genius Patrick Smith. And then amuse yourself further by visiting his web site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vectorpark.com\/\">vectorpark.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now we just sit back and wait for the flood of advertising requests from Courvoisier and Aston Martin, anxious to get in on this whole &#8220;graphic novel&#8221; craze everyone&#8217;s talking about. (Actually, come to think of it, if we were really that smart and marketing-savvy, we should have called the magazine <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Graphic Novels Graphic Novels<\/span>.)<\/p>\n<p>Also, sometime soon we will begin presenting actual, not just self-promoting material again. We felt like we needed to give you a chance to catch your breath and rest your mind a little first. We&#8217;ll start learning you again but soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week&#8217;s issue of the trade newspaper Advertising Age, &#8220;Media Guy&#8221; Simon Dumenco has astutely chosen this publication as his current &#8220;Pop Pick&#8221;. &#8216;Comics Comics&#8217; ($5 by Internet order) is a new mini-mag that &#8220;aims to document contemporary and past comics, from a pluralistic, affectionate, but critical standpoint.&#8221; If that sounds a little heady, well, it is\u2013and things get equally quasi-scholarly at comicscomicsmag.blogspot.com, where you can find loving meditations [&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":[197,262,1007,1204,1281],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-barks","tag-comics-comics","tag-p-smith","tag-dumenco","tag-the-ganzfeld"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","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=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}