{"id":473,"date":"2009-04-29T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/2009\/04\/la-z-blog-2-blog-la-z-er\/"},"modified":"2009-04-29T10:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T15:45:00","slug":"la-z-blog-2-blog-la-z-er","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=473","title":{"rendered":"La-Z-Blog 2: Blog La-Z-er"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. Tucker Stone <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comixology.com\/articles\/224\/coldheatfranksantorogo\">interviews<\/a> Frank and writes about <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Cold Heat<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>2. A good, thorough <a href=\"http:\/\/olgaistefan.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/09\/fumetto-comix-festival-in-luzern\/\">review<\/a> of that Fumetto Festival in Switzerland that Dan, Frank, Lauren, and Mark Newgarden kept going <a href=\"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/fumetto%20festival\">on and on about<\/a> a few weeks back. I don&#8217;t mind that I didn&#8217;t attend, not at all. It sounds awful. I&#8217;m really glad I didn&#8217;t waste my time.<\/p>\n<p>3. Lauren <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurenweinstein.com\/?p=193\">reports<\/a> from last week&#8217;s SPX in Sweden, which I&#8217;m also glad I missed.<\/p>\n<p>4. Gary Panter&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/abstractcomics.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/gary-panters-zomoid-1983.html\">Zomoid<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>5. I haven&#8217;t read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/30974\/biblio\/9781897299548 \">Jamilti<\/a>, and so can&#8217;t comment on the accuracy of this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2009\/apr\/25\/rutu-modan-jamilti\">Guardian review<\/a> of Rutu Modan&#8217;s collection, but I found it kind of interesting how the anti-comics-respectability <strike>meme<\/strike> idea-or-behavior-that-spreads-from-person-to-person-within-a-culture [Thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/la-z-blog-2-blog-la-z-er.html?showComment=1241027520000#c1306270898635576849\">zik<\/a>!] made its way in at the end. I&#8217;m probably forgetting a dozen different things, but I don&#8217;t remember encountering it in the mainstream press in quite this form before. <\/p>\n<p>6. I didn&#8217;t actually have enough patience or interest to do more than skim this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2009\/apr\/29\/exclamation-mark-punctuation\">article<\/a> from the same paper, but I&#8217;d say that in my case, my overindulgence in exclamation points stems almost entirely from having read too many comic books! I was surprised that Stan Lee didn&#8217;t get mentioned!<\/p>\n<p>Done. And done!!!<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Or not. One more quick one. If I wasn&#8217;t avoiding Twitter as much as possible on general principle, I would&#8217;ve seen <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/DandQ\/status\/1596036425\">this<\/a> earlier. I had to google J.P., but it was worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Tucker Stone interviews Frank and writes about Cold Heat. 2. A good, thorough review of that Fumetto Festival in Switzerland that Dan, Frank, Lauren, and Mark Newgarden kept going on and on about a few weeks back. I don&#8217;t mind that I didn&#8217;t attend, not at all. It sounds awful. I&#8217;m really glad I didn&#8217;t waste my time. 3. Lauren reports from last week&#8217;s SPX in Sweden, which I&#8217;m [&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":[418,452,466,479,781,923,1065,1252,1333],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-europe","tag-santoro","tag-fumetto-festival","tag-panter","tag-weinstein","tag-modan","tag-punctuation","tag-swedish-spx","tag-t-stone"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","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=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}