{"id":18324,"date":"2014-02-09T11:15:26","date_gmt":"2014-02-09T19:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=18324"},"modified":"2014-02-09T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T19:26:01","slug":"love-this-cartoon-by-clay-butler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=18324","title":{"rendered":"Love This Cartoon By Clay Butler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/sidewalk_bubblegum_150.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/sidewalk_bubblegum_150-536x550.gif\" alt=\"sidewalk_bubblegum_150\" width=\"536\" height=\"550\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18325\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I came across this cartoon on Facebook &#8211; where it was poorly reproduced and had Butler&#8217;s credit at the bottom cut out (why do people do that? I can see why people reblog and repost cartoons that lack a credit line &#8211; I do that myself &#8211; but who cuts out the credit line in the first place, and why?). To me, the cartoon is clearly about rich people who yell &#8220;class warfare!&#8221; every time someone criticizes, well, rich people. But reading the comments on Facebook, many people seem to take it as a straightforward cartoon about postmodernism.<\/p>\n<p>(With only a small change to how the stepped-on character is drawn, it could also work as a cartoon about racism, or misogyny, or transphobia, or homophobia, etc.) <em>(ETA: Well, actually, you don&#8217;t need to change it at all to potentially be about transphobia or homophobia.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, Clay Butler&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/sidewalkbubblegum.com\">&#8220;Sidewalk Bubblegum&#8221; archive is her<\/a>e, and well worth checking out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this cartoon on Facebook &#8211; where it was poorly reproduced and had Butler&#8217;s credit at the bottom cut out (why do people do that? I can see why people reblog and repost cartoons that lack a credit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=18324\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-poverty-labor-related-issues","category-comics-i-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18324","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=18324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18327,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18324\/revisions\/18327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}