{"id":12312,"date":"2010-04-27T03:00:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T08:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=12312"},"modified":"2010-04-06T13:00:24","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T18:00:24","slug":"upton-colin-self-portrait-comic-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=12312","title":{"rendered":"Upton, Colin &#8211; Self-Portrait Comic #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colinupton.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/selfportrait11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"selfportrait11\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/selfportrait11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"329\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Self-Portrait Comic #1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Colin was always a master at packing all kinds of information into a tiny comic, and this one is no exception.\u00c2\u00a0 This is, as you may have guessed from the title, a self-portrait, literally (on the back cover) and figuratively.\u00c2\u00a0 He starts off with a lengthy fact sheet on the inside cover (all text), detailing his age (in 1988), weight, hair, work history (admirably, to me at least, only a paper route when he was a kid), volunteer work, medical history, awards, schooling, disabilities, and plenty of other stuff&#8230; all before you even get to the comic.\u00c2\u00a0 Once you&#8217;re inside any page of this would have made a great sample, as he starts by trying to clear up the apparently common misconception of him as a hippy, goes on to say the many things he loves about Vancouver, his hope that the perception of comics as just &#8220;kid&#8217;s stuff&#8221; will change over time (the jury is still out on that one), some other personal interests and his very frank discussion of his nervous anger and how he keeps a lid on it in public.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t mean to give the impression that he doesn&#8217;t make comics any more, as it sure seems like he does, but it also seems like he&#8217;s one of the few comic authors who has managed to keep the bulk of his older work still in print.\u00c2\u00a0 As I have been harping on quite a bit here lately, I wish that happened more often, but when it does, it should be rewarded.\u00c2\u00a0 You know, with money.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m a fan, clearly, but these are incredibly cheap and you could do a whole lot worse than to just order the lot of these and see what you like.\u00c2\u00a0 $.40 or $25 for a set of 60 minis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/selfportrait12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"selfportrait12\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/selfportrait12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"446\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Self-Portrait Comic #1 Colin was always a master at packing all kinds of information into a tiny comic, and this one is no exception.\u00c2\u00a0 This is, as you may have guessed from the title, a self-portrait, literally (on the back cover) and figuratively.\u00c2\u00a0 He starts off with a lengthy fact sheet on the inside [&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":[465,467],"class_list":["post-12312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-colin-upton","tag-self-portrait-comic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12312","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=12312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12315,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12312\/revisions\/12315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}