{"id":11875,"date":"2010-04-26T18:09:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T23:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=11875"},"modified":"2010-04-04T17:26:17","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T22:26:17","slug":"smith-ryan-cecil-un-petit-carnet-de-voyage-ii-hiroshima-miyagima-saijo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=11875","title":{"rendered":"Smith, Ryan Cecil &#8211; Un Petit Carnet de Voyage II: Hiroshima, Miyagima &#038; Saijo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ryancecilsmith.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.closedcaptioncomics.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website with more comics<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/unpetit21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"unpetit21\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/unpetit21.jpg\" alt=\"unpetit21\" width=\"298\" height=\"431\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Un Petit Carnet de Voyage II: Hiroshima, Miyagima &amp; Saijo<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Generally speaking, I&#8217;m a big fan of travel diary comics.\u00c2\u00a0 The artist goes to some place that I&#8217;ve (almost always) never been to, and I&#8217;m all for the occasional vicarious trip to a strange land.\u00c2\u00a0 The thing is that often, when you&#8217;re sketching out what you&#8217;re seeing and putting your thoughts down in a travel diary, things can turn out sloppy as hell, and it&#8217;s best to clean it up a bit before putting a comic out.\u00c2\u00a0 Ryan&#8217;s art isn&#8217;t the problem here at all; the sketchy, casual feel is perfect for this sort of thing.\u00c2\u00a0 The trouble comes up when I can&#8217;t read whatever the hell it is he&#8217;s trying to say.\u00c2\u00a0 His handwriting (and I can feel my glass house crumbling around me as I type this) is awful.\u00c2\u00a0 It has a tendency to clump, making it appear that he&#8217;s throwing a cursive word or two in among the printing, which just makes the whole thing tougher to interpret, which is tough enough when you&#8217;re reading about a foreign place and most of your mooring are already gone.\u00c2\u00a0 So, to make a long point just a little bit shorter: proceed with caution.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve gone at such length because it&#8217;s a damned shame.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve long wondered just what Hiroshima is like these days, what with us utterly destroying it 64 years ago and all.\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what I took from this comic: the impressive state of the trains, how polite everybody is with their fractured Japanese, the variety of foods, the awkward karaoke, the majesty of the trees, the architecture, the many wandering cats, how even the bums are nicer than here, the Atom Bomb Dome, and the horrific dog monsters.\u00c2\u00a0 Clearly I still got a lot out of this comic, it&#8217;s that trying to read it may make you a little crazy.\u00c2\u00a0 Check out his Two Eyes of the Beautiful first, then make your way back to this one.\u00c2\u00a0 Or just check bits of this out on his website and see for yourself&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 $5<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/unpetit22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"unpetit22\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/unpetit22.jpg\" alt=\"unpetit22\" width=\"413\" height=\"535\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Website with more comics Un Petit Carnet de Voyage II: Hiroshima, Miyagima &amp; Saijo Generally speaking, I&#8217;m a big fan of travel diary comics.\u00c2\u00a0 The artist goes to some place that I&#8217;ve (almost always) never been to, and I&#8217;m all for the occasional vicarious trip to a strange land.\u00c2\u00a0 The thing is that often, [&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":[2083,3270,3271],"class_list":["post-11875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-miyagima-saijo","tag-ryan-cecil-smith","tag-un-petit-carnet-de-voyage-ii-hiroshima"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11875","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=11875"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11878,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11875\/revisions\/11878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}