{"id":11252,"date":"2010-04-24T23:15:53","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T04:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=11252"},"modified":"2010-04-02T16:15:38","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T21:15:38","slug":"northfield-gary-cecil-the-nice-wasp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=11252","title":{"rendered":"Northfield, Gary &#8211; Cecil the Nice Wasp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.garynorthfield.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/cecil1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cecil the Nice Wasp<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Why do so many of Gary&#8217;s books look rushed? Maybe he draws them on planes on the way to conventions or something. Either way, the rushed, sloppy art does help add to the frantic pace of a book like Cecil. This is a short book about Cecil, a wasp who just wants to be loved! But he&#8217;s a bully and doesn&#8217;t see how this would put people off, so he decides to take his revenge! It&#8217;s much too short for me to tell you anything past that. Look, sloppy art or not, I liked this one. I love the sheer randomness of his comics. I&#8217;d guess this one is $2-3, it&#8217;s gorgeous anyway and can&#8217;t imagine it&#8217;d be less. Send the man <a href=\"mailto:badddogcomics@yahoo.co.uk\">an e-mail<\/a> (this one is different from the one posted above and this comic is more recent, so I&#8217;d say this is where to go) or check out a version of <a href=\"http:\/\/e-merl.com\/pocom.htm\">this comic online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/cecil2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"436\" height=\"302\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Cecil the Nice Wasp Why do so many of Gary&#8217;s books look rushed? Maybe he draws them on planes on the way to conventions or something. Either way, the rushed, sloppy art does help add to the frantic pace of a book like Cecil. This is a short book about Cecil, a wasp who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1793,3169],"class_list":["post-11252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-cecil-the-nice-wasp","tag-gary-northfield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11257,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11252\/revisions\/11257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}