{"id":4515,"date":"2008-06-17T01:26:04","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T08:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/17\/the-transphobia-almost-takes-a-back-seat-to-the-utter-hackishness\/"},"modified":"2008-06-17T01:26:04","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T08:45:52","slug":"the-transphobia-almost-takes-a-back-seat-to-the-utter-hackishness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4515","title":{"rendered":"The Transphobia Almost Takes A Back Seat To The Utter Hackishness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not naturally a bitter person. I spent a lot of years trying to make a go of political cartoons. I never made a go of it, but I think I&#8217;ve made some nice cartoons over the years.<\/p>\n<p>But everyone once in a while, I see work by a paid newspaper political cartoonist which&#8230;. well&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattbors.com\/2008\/06\/sean-delonas-worse-than-hack.html?ext-ref=comm-sub-email\">Matt Bors<\/a> has the scoop; the NY Post&#8217;s Sean Delonas, never exactly renowned for originality of approach, did <em>the exact same cartoon<\/em> twice in two months.<\/p>\n<p>Not a variation on a theme. Not a twist on a gag. He just did a bad, transphobic cartoon once, and then was so empty of ideas, two months later he did it again. What a waste of newsprint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not naturally a bitter person. I spent a lot of years trying to make a go of political cartoons. I never made a go of it, but I think I&#8217;ve made some nice cartoons over the years. But everyone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4515\">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-4515","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\/4515","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=4515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}