{"id":4412,"date":"2008-05-09T11:22:19","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T18:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/05\/09\/wasted-blog-reviews-hereville\/"},"modified":"2008-05-09T11:22:19","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T18:42:07","slug":"wasted-blog-reviews-hereville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4412","title":{"rendered":"Wasted Blog reviews &quot;Hereville&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Angela Melick, the cartoonist behind the online dairy \/ general silliness comic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wastedtalent.ca\/\">Wasted Talent<\/a>, has posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wastedtalent.ca\/blog\/?permalink=5096\">a positive review of <em>Hereville<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The author, Barry, was my across-the-way neighbor at Stumptown. Hereville is &#8220;Easily in the top 3 comics about troll-fighting orthodox Jewish girls&#8221;. But in all sincerity, the book is awesome. I mean, awesome in such a way that I wanted to read it slowly so that I could spend more time reading it&#8230; you know? I was genuinely excited for the plot to advance!<\/p>\n<p>The story is the epitome of a fairy tale&#8230; except that at every single place where Barry has the opportunity to do something cliche, he surprises you. The plot is so tight, that it&#8217;s really a delight to read.<\/p>\n<p>Hereville is painted in a limited pallete of henna-tones that really comes to life in print. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hereville.com\/2008\/03\/20\/make-a-donation-and-read-the-entire-story-right-away\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hereville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sword_cover_small1.png\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\"\/><\/a>Thanks, Angela!<\/p>\n<p>I barely talked to Angela at Stumptown, because twenty feet of space separated our tables, but we spent the entire two days facing each other and every once in a while we&#8217;d wave. :-)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always nice to get positive feedback &#8212; but it&#8217;s doubly nice coming from other cartoonists. Please check <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wastedtalent.ca\/\">Angela&#8217;s comic strip<\/a> out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angela Melick, the cartoonist behind the online dairy \/ general silliness comic Wasted Talent, has posted a positive review of Hereville. The author, Barry, was my across-the-way neighbor at Stumptown. Hereville is &#8220;Easily in the top 3 comics about troll-fighting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4412\">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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartooning-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4412","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=4412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}