{"id":3821,"date":"2010-07-03T20:08:23","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T00:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=3821"},"modified":"2010-07-03T20:08:23","modified_gmt":"2010-07-04T00:08:23","slug":"lazy-saturday-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=3821","title":{"rendered":"Lazy Saturday Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3822\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/warepopemashup.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3822\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3822\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/warepopemashup.jpg?resize=300%2C172\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3822\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pope\/Ware collage<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Just a lazy Saturday post here.\u00a0Frank came up to Brooklyn to hang out.\u00a0We spent a couple hours at the great\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.insiderpages.com\/b\/8999775094\/roger-s-time-machine-new-york\">Time Machine <\/a>yesterday and dug up some fun books.\u00a0I really wanted to get a beautiful <em>Planet of the Apes<\/em> coloring book I saw there.\u00a0 They\u2019re all <a href=\"http:\/\/pota.goatley.com\/coloringbooks.html\">archived online as PDFs here<\/a>.\u00a0Of course it\u2019s better with the faded, toothy yellow paper, though. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I picked up this 1990 <em>Anime Shower<\/em> special issue, from the publisher of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.protoculture.ca\/Proto\/index.htm\">Protoculture Addicts<\/a>.\u00a0As the introduction explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Summer is over. The weather is not fine enough anymore to see our favorite heroes and characters in swim suit. Then why not dare to meet them in the intimacy of their shower\/bath? Here is a unique occasion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Each page is a collage of manga frames and anime screen captures of different shower scenes. Check out the Akira panel!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/anime_shower_cover.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3824\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/anime_shower_cover.jpg?resize=300%2C223\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/akira_shower.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3825\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/akira_shower.jpg?resize=300%2C164\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It also has essays about violence vs. nudity in American cinema and a loving essay on shower scenes: \u201cAnd don\u2019t you think that such an obvious concern with personal hygiene is sending a positive message to today\u2019s youth?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/about_shower_scenes.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3826\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/about_shower_scenes.jpg?resize=300%2C230\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also got a comic called <em>The Protectors<\/em>, published by New York Comics, 1986, that has a running text section at the bottom of each page about how the comic was made and their troubles with their former publisher, Solson. It&#8217;s a story of youthful ambition, financial woes, re-inked pages, etc.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/brett_resigned1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3837\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/brett_resigned1.jpg?resize=486%2C82\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"82\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a classic &#8217;80s comics publishing cautionary tale\u2026 \u201cNOT PRINTED BY SOLSCUM\u201d!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/protectors_cover.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3828\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/protectors_cover.jpg?resize=300%2C222\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/protectors_2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3829\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/protectors_2.jpg?resize=300%2C223\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/protectors_3.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3830\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/protectors_3.jpg?resize=300%2C220\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Okay. We may now return to the regular <em>CC<\/em> comics criticism and reportage\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a lazy Saturday post here.\u00a0Frank came up to Brooklyn to hang out.\u00a0We spent a couple hours at the great\u00a0Time Machine yesterday and dug up some fun books.\u00a0I really wanted to get a beautiful Planet of the Apes coloring book I saw there.\u00a0 They\u2019re all archived online as PDFs here.\u00a0Of course it\u2019s better with the faded, toothy yellow paper, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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":[838,957,1063,1138],"class_list":["post-3821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-manga","tag-new-york-comics","tag-publishing-stories","tag-time-machine"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}