{"id":13628,"date":"2010-04-27T23:12:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T04:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13628"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:45:35","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:45:35","slug":"kochalka-james-magic-boy-and-girlfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13628","title":{"rendered":"Kochalka, James &#8211; Magic Boy and Girlfriend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanelf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/cov-magicboya.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"359\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1891830031\/xeroxarmy-20\" target=\"_blank\">Magic Boy and Girlfriend<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve read the rest of his work and wish for a little more, I  don&#8217;t know, content to his work, you should go back and read this one. A  collection of the &#8220;best of&#8221; his mini comics (call me a completist, but I  really wish that people would just go ahead and reprint all of the  stuff from their out of print minis, seeing as how nobody is ever going  to see the stuff and a lot of it very important to see the development  of the artist), this work is in a class by itself. Incredibly sad and  introspective, it&#8217;s not the kind of thing you expect to see from this  guy, and it turns out that it&#8217;s his first work. It&#8217;s probably because he  was separated from his girlfriend at school, but this entire book just  brings out feelings of loss and separation. I want to call old friends  after I read this and try to figure out just why we don&#8217;t hang out any  more. If you don&#8217;t like James Kochalka (and why are you reading his page  if you don&#8217;t like him?), I <em>still <\/em>think you should get this book.  It might show you a whole new side of the guy, which might make you  appreciate his other books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Magic Boy and Girlfriend If you&#8217;ve read the rest of his work and wish for a little more, I don&#8217;t know, content to his work, you should go back and read this one. A collection of the &#8220;best of&#8221; his mini comics (call me a completist, but I really wish that people would just [&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":[2182,496],"class_list":["post-13628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-james-kochalka","tag-magic-boy-and-girlfriend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13628","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=13628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16667,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13628\/revisions\/16667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}