{"id":2950,"date":"2011-05-11T14:03:16","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T19:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/05\/11\/something-nice-for-wednesday\/"},"modified":"2011-05-11T14:03:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T19:03:41","slug":"something-nice-for-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/05\/11\/something-nice-for-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Something nice for Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/wissewords\/chris-ware-sketch.jpg\" width=\"643\" height=\"592\" alt=\"Chris Ware sketch from the Stripdagen Breda in 1999\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>\nIn 1999 at one of the last comics conventions I&#8217;ve gone too somebody had flown in the cream of American alt comix: Chris Ware and Dan Clowes. I didn&#8217;t and still don&#8217;t care much for the latter, but Ware was and is another matter.  I&#8217;m quite pleased ot have gotten this little sketch from him and to be able to tell him how much I loved <cite>Acme Novelty Library<\/cite>. To him such an encounter was of course a dime a dozen and it can&#8217;t have been too pleasant to sit in a conference hall early in the morning that only days before had held a pig auction, probably jetlagged to hall and back, but both he and Clowes were quite friendly. Meeting them was the highlight of an incredibly shitty convention that was one of the things that drove me out of comix for a while.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBut at least it made for an easy blogpost twelve years later&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1999 at one of the last comics conventions I&#8217;ve gone too somebody had flown in the cream of American alt comix: Chris Ware and Dan Clowes. I didn&#8217;t and still don&#8217;t care much for the latter, but Ware was and is another matter. I&#8217;m quite pleased ot have gotten this little sketch from him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1341,1342],"class_list":["post-2950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comix","tag-chris-ware","tag-dan-clowes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2951,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions\/2951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}