{"id":2655,"date":"2012-11-11T10:41:17","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T16:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/?p=2655"},"modified":"2012-11-11T10:41:17","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T16:41:17","slug":"gorgeous-art-you-can-gaze-at-on-your-couch-or-on-the-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2012\/11\/gorgeous-art-you-can-gaze-at-on-your-couch-or-on-the-bus.html","title":{"rendered":"Gorgeous art you can gaze at on your couch or on the bus."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagecomics.com\/comics\/4620\/Saga-1\">Saga<\/a> is a wonderful, adult comic that I am currently completely freaking out over. The graphic novel compilation of issues 1-6 came out in October SO GO GET IT NOW.  Issue 7 comes out in November (right now). It&#8217;s SO GOOD. The story is total sci-fi fantasy gloriousness and the art is amazeballoons.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a couple cool interviews about it: 1) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbookresources.com\/?page=article&#038;id=40449\">with Brian Vaughan<\/a> (creator\/writer) and 2) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbookresources.com\/?page=article&#038;id=40756\">another with Fiona Staples<\/a>, the artist (the art is BREATHTAKINGLY AWESOME).<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of awesome art, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Little-Riding-Hood-Brothers-Grimm\/dp\/B005UVRVUG\">this version<\/a> of Little Red Riding Hood, illustrated by Daniel Egn\u00e9us is also incredibly stunning. Modern, operatic, and cerebral. My students weren&#8217;t that into it, but I was blown away. (More <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/jacketcopy\/2011\/03\/artist-daniel-egn\u00e9us-gives-little-red-riding-hood-a-stylish-makeover.html\">here<\/a> as well.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saga is a wonderful, adult comic that I am currently completely freaking out over. The graphic novel compilation of issues 1-6 came out in October SO GO GET IT NOW. Issue 7 comes out in November (right now). It&#8217;s SO &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2012\/11\/gorgeous-art-you-can-gaze-at-on-your-couch-or-on-the-bus.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,43,27,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-comic_book_geek","category-readin","category-recommending"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2656,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions\/2656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}