{"id":12151,"date":"2011-01-20T02:48:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T09:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hereville.com\/?p=923"},"modified":"2011-01-20T02:48:33","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T09:48:33","slug":"brigid-alverson-interviewed-in-the-comics-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=12151","title":{"rendered":"Brigid Alverson Interviewed In The Comics Reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s been no greater booster of Hereville <\/em>than comics journalist Brigid Alverson, who is interviewed here by Tom Spurgeon at The Comics Reporter<\/em><\/a>. Brigid — who has interviewed me more than once, and who I like a lot — was nice enough to mention Hereville<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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SPURGEON: Can you talk for a bit about one or two of the comics you thought were great this year? What makes a comic great as opposed to merely good? Is there something that tends to connect great works in comics in your mind?<\/em><\/p>\n

ALVERSON: A great comic crosses over a boundary in my brain so that I’m not just reading it, I’m experiencing it on some deeper level. Hereville <\/em>was the best example of that, and I feel like a broken record because I talk about it a lot, but it really was the standout comic for me. It has to do with the way that the creator, Barry Deutsch, creates a world and very quickly draws you into it, so you are getting inside the characters’ heads. There’s a scene in there where the main character, who is 11, is solving a math problem, and as I read it, I was solving it in the same way. Many of the sequences were like that. It’s as if I hallucinated this book rather than just reading it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Wow! Reading that made my day. Thanks, Brigid. (And click through to read the entire interview — she talks about lots of stuff other than Hereville<\/em>!)<\/p>\n

(Information about buying your own copy of Hereville <\/em>can be found here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s been no greater booster of Hereville than comics journalist Brigid Alverson, who is interviewed here by Tom Spurgeon at The Comics Reporter. Brigid — who has interviewed me more than once, and who I like a lot — was nice enough to mention Hereville: SPURGEON: Can you talk for a bit about one or […] Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hereville","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12151","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}