{"id":982,"date":"2010-02-20T11:43:30","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T16:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=982"},"modified":"2010-02-20T11:43:30","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T16:43:30","slug":"comics-and-not-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=982","title":{"rendered":"Comics and Not Comics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our new site looks great, so I’m ashamed that my first post will be a series of quick pointers, not an impassioned<\/a> and well-researched<\/a>\u00a0essay like the other guys have been writing lately.<\/p>\n

Here are are few things I think people on this site will be interested in:<\/p>\n

1.Not comics, science fiction. R. Fiore has a very good\u00a0essay on\u00a0changes in the science fiction field, jumping off from an earlier piece by Tim Hodler (or T.\u00a0Hobler, as Fiore called him in an earlier draft of the essay). Go here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

2. Not comics, climate change. I have a long article in today’s Globe and Mail on the attempt by some bloggers to discredit the science of climate change. Think about it this way: if the world heats up and we face an environmental catastrophe, it’ll be hard to enjoy comics. Go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0core paragraph:<\/p>\n

The key objection to the work of bloggers such as Mr. McIntyre is that they are engaged in an epic game of nitpicking: zeroing in on minor technical issues while ignoring the massive and converging lines of evidence that are coming in from many disciplines. To read their online work is to enter a dank, claustrophobic universe where obsessive personalities talk endlessly about small building blocks \u2013 Yamal Peninsula trees, bristlecones, weather stations \u2013 the removal of which will somehow topple the entire edifice of climate science. Lost in the blogging world is any sense of proportion, or the idea that science is built on cumulative work in many fields, the scientists say.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

3. Not comics, everything else. Earlier this week I was on the Michael Coren show as part of an arts panel. We talked abut everything under the sun (Sarah Palin and the Family Guy, Sikhs in werewolf movies, a new comedy about suicide bombers, the Olympics, Tiger Woods). Everything but comics. Go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our new site looks great, so I’m ashamed that my first post will be a series of quick pointers, not an impassioned and well-researched\u00a0essay like the other guys have been writing lately. Here are are few things I think people on this site will be interested in: 1.Not comics, science fiction. R. Fiore has a very good\u00a0essay on\u00a0changes in the science fiction field, jumping off from an earlier piece by […]<\/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":[3],"tags":[1070],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-r-fiore"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","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=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}