{"id":14998,"date":"2018-05-28T20:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T00:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2018\/05\/28\/from-a-letter-to-a-comics-club-friend\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:33","slug":"from-a-letter-to-a-comics-club-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2018\/05\/28\/from-a-letter-to-a-comics-club-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"From a Letter to a Comics Club Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw <em>Solo<\/em> last night with a buddy from high school band and his family.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>It was fun enough, but&#8230; pointless. Lifeless. It was nobody\u2019s private vision; a fanboy grocery list fulfilled by a committee.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>sigh<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, I got a monthly wee comic zine from Liz Prince (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/lizprincepower.com\/news\/on-writing-tomboy\">Tomboy<\/a><\/em>) in the post as a Patreon fulfillment thing. She makes them herself, and they\u2019re simple, cute, raw, and real.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s room for both in life \u2014 the big, dumb fun commercial culture and the DIY personal work \u2014 but give me more of the latter.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw Solo last night with a buddy from high school band and his family. It was fun enough, but&#8230; pointless. Lifeless. It was nobody\u2019s private vision; a fanboy grocery list fulfilled by a committee. sigh By contrast, I got a monthly wee comic zine from Liz Prince (Tomboy) in the post as a Patreon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}