{"id":424,"date":"2006-07-22T10:04:06","date_gmt":"2006-07-22T16:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/424"},"modified":"2006-07-22T10:04:06","modified_gmt":"2006-07-22T16:04:06","slug":"now-i-understand-comics-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/424","title":{"rendered":"Now I understand comics too!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read a  71434-0.html&#8221;>Wired article<\/a> interviewing Scott McCloud,   author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/006097625X\/sr=8-1\/qid=1153582780\/ref=pd_bbs_1\/103-1083704-2790247?ie=UTF8\">Understanding Comics<\/a>. I had to read this book for a YA lit class, and boy howdy, it was effective. It explains the depth and breadth of comic styles and functions. If you ever need to know more (even if you know a lot) about comics, this is the book you need. And it&#8217;s in graphic novel form.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the article I just read has McCloud explaining about the boom of webcomics, and how this affects the comic world, and then a nice overview of where comics are going, and one upcoming trend I find interesting &#8211; the family-friendly tween genre. Except I kind of hate the word tween, but that&#8217;s neither here nor there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read a 71434-0.html&#8221;>Wired article interviewing Scott McCloud, author of Understanding Comics. I had to read this book for a YA lit class, and boy howdy, it was effective. It explains the depth and breadth of comic styles and functions. If you ever need to know more (even if you know a lot) about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}