{"id":4995,"date":"2014-01-14T16:13:23","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T21:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=4995"},"modified":"2014-01-14T16:13:52","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T21:13:52","slug":"comics-by-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2014\/01\/14\/comics-by-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Comics by mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/wissewords\/sophie-yanow-envelope.jpg\" width=\"297\" height=\"368\" alt=\"mystery envelope\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s always a nice surprise to come home and find an international mail envelope on the doormat, especially when it comes with a drawing on the outside (barely visible above). Who was Sophie Yanow and why was she sending me mail?<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/wissewords\/sophie-yanow-loot.jpg\" width=\"390\" height=\"358\" alt=\"three comics by Sophie Yanow\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nWell, it turned out this mystery envelope contained three comics and then I remembered. Back in december <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreporter.com\/index.php\/by_request_specialsdfd\/\">Tom Spurgeon had linked to her<\/a> because she had her laptop stolen and was holding a sale to replace it. I&#8217;d looked at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.situology.com\">her site<\/a>, liked the comics I saw so the choice to get some comics from her wasn&#8217;t too hard.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhat made it even easier, and which is something I would like to see more professional publishers do, is the way Yanow has set up her online shop. No bother with setting up accounts, just let paypal handle everything. Shipping charges, often horrendous when dealing with importing comics from the US (their annual sale is the only time I can actually afford buying directly from Topshelf), were reasonable as well, only six dollars.\n<\/p>\n<p.\nMeanwhile the comics themselves are none too shabby. I like Yanow's drawing style on display in them, rough and sketchy, sometimes so sparse it becomes abstract, her figures rendered in a minimum of thick, black (felt tip?) lines, while occassionally she almost overwhelms her characters with frenzied, thin scratchings. This is the work of a cartoonist exploring her potential, playing around and that's what makes this interesting.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always a nice surprise to come home and find an international mail envelope on the doormat, especially when it comes with a drawing on the outside (barely visible above). Who was Sophie Yanow and why was she sending me mail? Well, it turned out this mystery envelope contained three comics and then I remembered. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995","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=4995"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4997,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995\/revisions\/4997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}