{"id":11591,"date":"2010-10-19T09:21:29","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T16:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slowpokecomics.com\/blog\/?p=241"},"modified":"2010-10-19T09:21:29","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T16:21:29","slug":"this-week%e2%80%99s-cartoon-%e2%80%9csnippets-of-conversation-with-cartoonists-at-the-festival-of-cartoon-art%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11591","title":{"rendered":"This Week\u2019s Cartoon: \u201cSnippets of Conversation With Cartoonists at the Festival of Cartoon Art\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slowpokecomics.com\/strips\/cartoonfest.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Snippets of Conversation With Cartoonists\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slowpokecomics.com\/strips\/cartoonfest.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a>This past weekend was the <a href=\"http:\/\/cartoons.osu.edu\/fca2010\/\" >2010 Festival of Cartoon Art<\/a>, held every three years at Ohio State University. I was invited to be a speaker this year, which was an incredible honor; hopefully I&#8217;ll have time to blog about it soon. My strip was due mere hours after landing back in Seattle, and I hammered this out in a state of utter exhaustion. But I like how it came out. It was probably more than a little inspired by the &#8220;Life in Hell&#8221; cartoons Matt Groening was reading at his talk the night before, in which he simply illustrates crazy stuff his kids said. At OSU, I engaged in a year&#8217;s worth of wacky conversation over a four-day period. These snippets are just the ones that came to mind first. Pictured in the cartoon are: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rinapiccolo.com\/\" >Rina Piccolo<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizarro.com\" >Dan Piraro<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seanparkes.com\" >Sean Parkes<\/a>, and&#8230; well, maybe I&#8217;ll hold off in revealing the last cartoonist, lest he not want that to be Google-able forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend was the 2010 Festival of Cartoon Art, held every three years at Ohio State University. I was invited to be a speaker this year, which was an incredible honor; hopefully I&#8217;ll have time to blog about it soon. My strip was due mere hours after landing back in Seattle, and I hammered [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11591\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}