{"id":11634,"date":"2010-11-09T13:20:13","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T20:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slowpokecomics.com\/blog\/?p=273"},"modified":"2010-11-09T13:20:13","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T20:20:13","slug":"hello-alas-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11634","title":{"rendered":"Hello, Alas Readers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Barry Deutsch has invited me to be a guest-blogger on his site, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/\" >Alas! A Blog<\/a>.&#8221; Those of you reading this there may have already noticed some entries by me showing up already. I&#8217;ve known Barry through cartooning for a few years now, and recently moved to his hamlet of Portland, OR. I guess this is how Barry welcomes newcomers: by putting them to work for him! (Just kidding, Barry. I know you are a benevolent overlord.)<\/p>\n<p>A bit about me, which regular <a href=\"http:\/\/slowpokecomics.com\/blog\/\" >SlowpokeBlog<\/a> readers already know: I draw a weekly comic called &#8220;Slowpoke&#8221; which appears in the Village Voice and numerous other alternative newspapers around the country. You also may have seen my cartoons in Funny Times or <a href=\"http:\/\/campusprogress.org\" >CampusProgress.org<\/a>. Feminist-wise, I was profiled in the summer issue of Bitch Magazine, and I&#8217;ve done work for the Women&#8217;s Review of Books and Ms. Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Lately I&#8217;ve been lamenting the fact that people tend to get locked into narrow reading habits online, so I welcome the opportunity to share my work with new readers. And for you SlowpokeBlog regulars, be sure to check out Barry&#8217;s new graphic novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hereville.com\/\" >Hereville<\/a>, just out from Abrams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Barry Deutsch has invited me to be a guest-blogger on his site, &#8220;Alas! A Blog.&#8221; Those of you reading this there may have already noticed some entries by me showing up already. I&#8217;ve known Barry through cartooning for a few years now, and recently moved to his hamlet of Portland, OR. I guess [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11634\">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-11634","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\/11634","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=11634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}