{"id":2587,"date":"2010-05-07T23:11:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T03:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=2587"},"modified":"2010-05-07T23:11:09","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T03:11:09","slug":"new-issue-of-the-believer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=2587","title":{"rendered":"New Issue of The Believer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new issue of <em>The Believer<\/em> is out and is chock-full of  comics goodness. First up, the fifth installment of Alvin Buenaventura&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.believermag.com\/issues\/201005\/?read=comics\">&#8220;Comics&#8221; column<\/a>. Some great work by Jonathan Bennett, Lilli Carr\u00e9, Tom Gauld, and others. And Charles Burns ruins eggs for all time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Spiritual Dad,&#8221; a story by Jesse Moynihan and Dash Shaw, is tucked in the back of the issue. They&#8217;ve printed it vertically on a long section of folded paper, so it reads kind of like a scroll.<\/p>\n<p>Gabrielle Bell&#8217;s done a strip (in glorious color!) that adapts a poem by Russian writer Sasha Chernyi about springtime and seasonal affective disorder in gnomes.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.believermag.com\/issues\/201005\/?read=interview_clowes\">interview<\/a> with Dan Clowes, which covers a lot of his comics work\u2014including his new book, <em>Wilson<\/em>, which really is phenomenally good\u2014and his film projects, including the sad demise of his <em>Raiders of the Lost Ark <\/em>script. Burns, <em>The Believer<\/em>&#8216;s resident cover artist, asked Clowes&#8217;s permission to make him look horrible for the cover image. It worked. His face frightened my kid. Somehow it manages simultanteously to be quintessential Burns and Clowes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new issue of The Believer is out and is chock-full of comics goodness. First up, the fifth installment of Alvin Buenaventura&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;Comics&#8221; column. Some great work by Jonathan Bennett, Lilli Carr\u00e9, Tom Gauld, and others. And Charles Burns ruins eggs for all time. &#8220;Spiritual Dad,&#8221; a story by Jesse Moynihan and Dash Shaw, is tucked in the back of the issue. They&#8217;ve printed it vertically on a long section of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"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":[50,214,299,1276],"class_list":["post-2587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-buenaventura","tag-burns","tag-clowes","tag-believer"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}