{"id":14041,"date":"2011-08-24T22:27:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T06:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hereville.com\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2011-08-24T22:27:05","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T06:27:05","slug":"why-i-go-to-comic-book-conventions-a-somewhat-embarassed-confession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14041","title":{"rendered":"Why I Go To Comic Book Conventions (a somewhat embarassed confession)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve realized this year that a major reason I go to comic book conventions isn&#8217;t for fun, but because I feel a need to be legitimized as a cartoonist. After so many years of getting nowhere with cartooning, it means a lot to me to go someplace where readers, and especially other cartoonists, will say &#8220;Oh, you did <em>Hereville<\/em>? That was really good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also, sad to say, why I enjoy being nominated for awards. (Did I oh-so-casually mention that Hereville was nominated for an Eisner, a Harvey, and an Ignatz? I did? Well, then, let me just casually mention it again.)<\/p>\n<p>I was talking about this to another cartoonist &#8212; someone who has won major cartooning awards and is published by a prestigious company. And he told me that despite all that, he still feels the same need for legitimization. It never goes away, apparently.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion: Maybe I&#8217;ll try to go to fewer cons this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve realized this year that a major reason I go to comic book conventions isn&#8217;t for fun, but because I feel a need to be legitimized as a cartoonist. After so many years of getting nowhere with cartooning, it means a lot to me to go someplace where readers, and especially other cartoonists, will say [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14041\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14041","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\/14041","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=14041"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14788,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14041\/revisions\/14788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}