{"id":454,"date":"2009-03-16T12:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T17:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/2009\/03\/la-z-blog\/"},"modified":"2009-03-16T12:39:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T17:39:00","slug":"la-z-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=454","title":{"rendered":"La-Z-Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookforum.com\/inprint\/016_01\/3556\">reviewed<\/a> Amanda V\u00e4h\u00e4m\u00e4ki&#8217;s <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">The Bun Field<\/span> for the April\/May issue of <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Bookforum<\/span>, which is impressively packed with comics-related material in general, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookforum.com\/inprint\/016_01\/3548\">Ben Schwartz on Harvey Kurtzman<\/a>, <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">CC<\/span> contributor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookforum.com\/inprint\/016_01\/3549\">Joe McCulloch on Yoshihiro Tatsumi<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookforum.com\/inprint\/016_01\/3559\">Nicole Rudick on <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Beasts!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. Gary Panter <a href=\"http:\/\/asteriskpix.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/three-legged-jump-rope.html\">animated<\/a>, kinda.<\/p>\n<p>3. Pretty awesome <a href=\"http:\/\/allthingsger.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/milt-gross-was-one-of-great-humorists.html\">Milt Gross-created book reviews in comics form<\/a>. I&#8217;ve never seen or heard of these before.<\/p>\n<p>4. Not comics: The only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantagraphics.com\/index.php?option=com_myblog&#038;show=My-Watchmen-Review.html&#038;Itemid=113\">review<\/a> of <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Watchmen<\/span> (the movie) you need. (The author of that also said some <a href=\"http:\/\/thedailycrosshatch.com\/2009\/03\/15\/momentum\/\">other stuff<\/a> worth reading.)<\/p>\n<p>5. Oh, and various prominent comics bloggers have weighed in on the new <a href=\"http:\/\/coldheatcomics.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/new-cold-heat.html\">Cold Heat<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/madinkbeard.com\/blog\/archives\/cold-heat-the-series-5-6-by-jones-and-santoro\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/joglikescomics.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/i-felt-everlasting-light-of-our-dreams.html\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alltooflat.com\/about\/personal\/sean\/2009\/03\/comics_time_cold_heat_56.html\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/billrandall.net\/blog\/2009\/cold-heat-5-6\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: I forgot one.<\/p>\n<p>6. An <a href=\"http:\/\/robot6.comicbookresources.com\/2009\/03\/is-the-ship-sinking-a-short-chat-with-ted-may\/\">interview with Ted May<\/a>, partly re <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Injury<\/span> 3. I&#8217;m pretty excited to see that issue, not only because I really liked the first two, but because <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">CC<\/span> designer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikereddy.com\">Mike Reddy<\/a> drew one of the stories in it. Mike showed me a few of the pages, and they were great, and I can&#8217;t wait to see the whole thing. Ok, I&#8217;m done now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. I reviewed Amanda V\u00e4h\u00e4m\u00e4ki&#8217;s The Bun Field for the April\/May issue of Bookforum, which is impressively packed with comics-related material in general, including Ben Schwartz on Harvey Kurtzman, CC contributor Joe McCulloch on Yoshihiro Tatsumi, and Nicole Rudick on Beasts! 2. Gary Panter animated, kinda. 3. Pretty awesome Milt Gross-created book reviews in comics form. I&#8217;ve never seen or heard of these before. 4. Not comics: The only review [&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":[1],"tags":[51,63,148,274,407,479,550,682,912,916,1254,1266,1391],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-vahamaki","tag-animation","tag-bookforum","tag-comics-vs-movies","tag-e-reynolds","tag-panter","tag-kurtzman","tag-jog","tag-reddy","tag-gross","tag-hodler","tag-ted-may","tag-tatsumi"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","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=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}