{"id":850,"date":"2004-05-11T12:24:56","date_gmt":"2004-05-11T17:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2004\/05\/11\/zing\/"},"modified":"2004-05-11T12:24:56","modified_gmt":"2004-05-11T17:24:56","slug":"zing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2004\/05\/11\/zing\/","title":{"rendered":"Zing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Walking through the turn-of-the-century expositions devoted to &#8216;small press&#8217; comics, visitors were greeted on one side of the aisle by roughly drawn &#8216;zines&#8217; about disaffected white youths with bad jobs, failed relationships and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightcomics.com\/scott_intro.htm\" title=\"I own some of these.  Zines, I mean.\">genital warts<\/a>; and on the other by strange, multidirectional experiments and oddly-shaped cardboard constructions with day-glow silkscreen covers.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t feel about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottmccloud.com\/\" title=\"He invented comics, you know.\">Scott McCloud<\/a> the way most comics people feel about Scott McCloud, but his pre-emptive introduction to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightcomics.com\/\" title=\"Half the reason I'm going to Comic-Con is to get a first-run copy of this thing.\">Flight<\/a> anthology is clever and even biting, as quoted above.  Self-indulgent, too, but what do you expect?  It&#8217;s comics people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Zines About Disaffected White Youths with Bad Jobs, Failed Relationships and Genital Warts&#8221; is really too long to be a band name, but it might work for a horse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Walking through the turn-of-the-century expositions devoted to &#8216;small press&#8217; comics, visitors were greeted on one side of the aisle by roughly drawn &#8216;zines&#8217; about disaffected white youths with bad jobs, failed relationships and genital warts; and on the other by strange, multidirectional experiments and oddly-shaped cardboard constructions with day-glow silkscreen covers.&#8221; I don&#8217;t feel about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,22,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obsessions","category-plugs","category-travel-and-acronyms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}