{"id":853,"date":"2018-04-18T21:56:49","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T04:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vmcampos.com\/blog\/?p=853"},"modified":"2018-04-18T21:59:53","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T04:59:53","slug":"podcast-episode-108-the-best-american-comics-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vmcampos.com\/blog\/podcast-episode-108-the-best-american-comics-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast Episode 108 &#8211; The Best American Comics 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With so many comic books out there, how do you know which are worth your time? The good folks at\u00a0<em>The Best American&#8230;\u00a0<\/em>series have got you covered.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Edited by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2017\/10\/02\/555035270\/cartoonist-roz-chast-draws-a-love-letter-to-new-york-city-cockroaches-and-all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roz Chast<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.on-panel.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill Kartalopopoulos<\/a>, this 378-page book features a variety of comics from many in the industry. From big names to small names, we read stories that are funny, thought-provoking, poignant, and weird. We run the gamut of comics that are realistic, surrealistic, and everything in between.<\/p>\n<p>The first exceprt,\u00a0<em>Killing\u00a0and Dying<\/em>, by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/adriantomine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adrian Tomine<\/a> is heart-wrenching and beautiful. The panel layout is very mechanical, in a way, but it propels the story with a fascinating sense of time. The characters are realistic, and relatable. A few pages in, and the full meaning of the comic&#8217;s title hits you like a ton of bricks.<\/p>\n<p>You owe it to yourself to check out this anthology. You&#8217;ll surely find something of interest, something to feel.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the Podcast<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/431899506&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With so many comic books out there, how do you know which are worth your time? The good folks at\u00a0The Best American&#8230;\u00a0series have got you covered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comics","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vmcampos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vmcampos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vmcampos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vmcampos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vmcampos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vmcampos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":861,"href":"https:\/\/vmcampos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions\/861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vmcampos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vmcampos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vmcampos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vmcampos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}