{"id":552,"date":"2009-09-02T12:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T17:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/2009\/09\/crumb-and-mazzucchelli-in-bookforum\/"},"modified":"2009-09-02T12:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T17:18:00","slug":"crumb-and-mazzucchelli-in-bookforum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=552","title":{"rendered":"Crumb and Mazzucchelli in Bookforum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last two years or so, <em>Bookforum<\/em> has emerged as one of best venues for alert comics criticism that is both informed but engages a mainstream audience. So I was pleased that <em>Bookforum<\/em> asked me to review Crumb&#8217;s new Genesis book. The review can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookforum.com\/inprint\/016_03\/4342\">here<\/a>. The latest issue also has Dan&#8217;s review of <em>Asterios Polyp<\/em>, available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookforum.com\/inprint\/016_03\/4303\">here<\/a>. Aside from taking comics seriously, <em>Bookforum<\/em> is a great review journal, wide-ranging and smart. It&#8217;s open to young writers in way that <em>The New York Review of Books <\/em>and other venerable journals just aren&#8217;t. There is much in the latest issue that merits attention, particularly Scott McLemee&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookforum.com\/inprint\/016_03\/4337\">review<\/a> of David Harvey&#8217;s new book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last two years or so, Bookforum has emerged as one of best venues for alert comics criticism that is both informed but engages a mainstream audience. So I was pleased that Bookforum asked me to review Crumb&#8217;s new Genesis book. The review can be found here. The latest issue also has Dan&#8217;s review of Asterios Polyp, available here. Aside from taking comics seriously, Bookforum is a great review [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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":[148,297,327,639,1068],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bookforum","tag-nadel","tag-mazzucchelli","tag-j-heer","tag-r-crumb"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}