{"id":1878,"date":"2011-10-04T09:04:11","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T14:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deepsicks.com\/?p=1878"},"modified":"2022-06-11T21:35:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T02:35:55","slug":"down-to-the-tightrolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/2011\/10\/04\/down-to-the-tightrolls\/","title":{"rendered":"down to the tightrolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read a lot of graphic novels. &#8220;Oh, like Watchmen.&#8221; Well. No. And I suppose we could wrestle the semantics of graphics, what it means to be a comic when the content isn&#8217;t funny, or if it&#8217;s still literary when the letters scribble off, word bubbles popped.<\/p>\n<p>Many prominent artists are my age, or just a little older, sharing shared experience, scripting old scars, so I devour for narrative, no doubt about it, but mostly for the trapdoors,<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Lee from Nate Powell's &quot;Any Empire&quot;\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/100411\/Lee_from_Nate_Powell's_Any_Empire.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"815\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>down to the tightrolls.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read a lot of graphic novels. &#8220;Oh, like Watchmen.&#8221; Well. No. And I suppose we could wrestle the semantics of graphics, what it means to be a comic when the content isn&#8217;t funny, or if it&#8217;s still literary when the letters scribble off, word bubbles popped. Many prominent artists are my age, or just<span class=\"excerpt-ellipsis\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/2011\/10\/04\/down-to-the-tightrolls\/\" itemprop=\"url\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["post-1878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-narratives","tag-art","tag-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8142,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions\/8142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}