{"id":3588,"date":"2007-08-15T14:07:52","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T21:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/15\/cartoon-free-trade\/"},"modified":"2007-08-15T14:07:52","modified_gmt":"2007-08-15T21:27:40","slug":"cartoon-free-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3588","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon: Free Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/11226731@N05\/1130169360\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1225\/1130169360_486dcab510.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"382\" alt=\"Free Trade\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After I had drawn this cartoon, the last panel began to nag at me. Eventually I figured out why&#8230; check out this panel from Dave Sim&#8217;s comic book <em>Church and State<\/em>, which came out in the 1980s and is one of my favorite comic books. ((This was before Sim became a misogynist nutball. Although before or after that point, his cartooning skills are amazing.))<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/livejournal_images\/cerebus_itsyourdoor.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Big lean to the left: Check. Big, craggy, rectangle-shaped word balloon: check. Sim&#8217;s version is better, of course, but there&#8217;s no doubt that there was some unconscious swiping going on here.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, well&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,25,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartooning-comics","category-economics-and-the-like","category-international-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588","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=3588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}