{"id":11437,"date":"2010-04-26T08:42:07","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T13:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=11437"},"modified":"2010-04-03T13:25:49","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T18:25:49","slug":"porcellino-john-king-cat-classix-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=11437","title":{"rendered":"Porcellino, John – King Cat Classix #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The trip down memory lane continues, as today I’m reviewing another out-of-print comic.\u00c2\u00a0 Or at least it looks like it’s out of print,\u00c2\u00a0 judging by his website.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, judging from his website it looks like most things are sold out, which is just a shame.\u00c2\u00a0 So anyway, this one collects the best of King Cat #1-10, and raise your hand if you were awesome enough to buy any of those when they were available.\u00c2\u00a0 Unless you really had your artistic act together in 1989, I doubt it.\u00c2\u00a0 For anybody who has ever complained that John’s style was too simplistic (those people who have missed the point entirely), it’s very clear that his art has improved from these issues.\u00c2\u00a0 Everything is a lot more raw, he’s clearly experimenting with thicker lines, and he eventually ended up where he is now.\u00c2\u00a0 So what’s in this?\u00c2\u00a0 Dream comics, stories of his time as a mosquito abatement guy (are these in the eventual collection?\u00c2\u00a0 If so did he clean them up when they were collected?\u00c2\u00a0 I should probably know these things), a simple story that is almost too perfect called 3 balls, John running into a guy trying to get to Chicago by walking along the railroad tracks, his new discovery of the reality of ticks, a drunk comic, a short piece about his dad, and his detailed (and hilarious) description of a sleepless night.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m way too biased to offer any kind of objective criticism of this series, which should be painfully obvious by now to any regular readers of the site.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, somebody should at least put these Classix volumes back in print (even though there are only 3 that I know of, so maybe add on a couple more), or maybe they should get in touch with Top Shelf or somebody and put the whole series out as a phone book type graphic novel.\u00c2\u00a0 Hey, a guy can dream…<\/p>\n

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Website King Cat Classix #1 The trip down memory lane continues, as today I’m reviewing another out-of-print comic.\u00c2\u00a0 Or at least it looks like it’s out of print,\u00c2\u00a0 judging by his website.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, judging from his website it looks like most things are sold out, which is just a shame.\u00c2\u00a0 So anyway, this one […]<\/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":[1475,1897,1898],"class_list":["post-11437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-john-porcellino","tag-king-cat","tag-king-cat-classix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11437","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=11437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11448,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11437\/revisions\/11448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}