{"id":648,"date":"2010-01-04T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/2010\/01\/boyette\/"},"modified":"2010-01-04T19:01:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T00:01:00","slug":"boyette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=648","title":{"rendered":"Boyette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_D8lGkTzFWrk\/S0KBoKLimLI\/AAAAAAAABr4\/gSgxo5CSboA\/s1600-h\/AAAA992.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_D8lGkTzFWrk\/S0KBoKLimLI\/AAAAAAAABr4\/gSgxo5CSboA\/s400\/AAAA992.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423039428235008178\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_D8lGkTzFWrk\/S0KBnxqxYBI\/AAAAAAAABrw\/kHuOBmBsVkM\/s1600-h\/AAAAA993.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 261px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_D8lGkTzFWrk\/S0KBnxqxYBI\/AAAAAAAABrw\/kHuOBmBsVkM\/s400\/AAAAA993.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423039421655113746\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.milehighcomics.com\/cgi-bin\/backissue.cgi?action=direct&#038;issue=09767744596%2036\">BEM #36<\/a>, a British comics fanzine published in 1980:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Boyette on attitudes:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most comic people from the East take themselves, and comics, so damned seriously.  I read THE COMICS JOURNAL, and I can&#8217;t believe that those guys are talking about&#8230; and having emotional apoplexy over&#8230; comics!  My attitude towards comics has never been that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I see everything in comics today but FUN.  Where the hell is this enjoyment I knew in comics as a kid?  The excitement of drawing and reading the comics?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From BEM #36, a British comics fanzine published in 1980: Boyette on attitudes: &#8220;Most comic people from the East take themselves, and comics, so damned seriously. I read THE COMICS JOURNAL, and I can&#8217;t believe that those guys are talking about&#8230; and having emotional apoplexy over&#8230; comics! My attitude towards comics has never been that. &#8220;I see everything in comics today but FUN. Where the hell is this enjoyment I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[428,1003,1280],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fanzines","tag-boyette","tag-tcj"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}