{"id":13665,"date":"2010-04-27T23:54:10","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T04:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13665"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:45:33","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:45:33","slug":"krupala-karla-the-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13665","title":{"rendered":"Krupala, Karla &#8211; The Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robynoverstreet.com\/karla\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/theletter1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"theletter1\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/theletter1.jpg\" alt=\"theletter1\" width=\"321\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Letter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What is the best way to respond to a voice from your past?\u00c2\u00a0 This  comic is an excellent attempt to examine that concept.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m old enough  now that there are plenty of people I haven&#8217;t seen or heard from in 5,  10, even 15 years that I once considered really good friends, so it&#8217;s  easy from one perspective to relate.\u00c2\u00a0 A young woman named Allison  receives a letter from her former friend Marybeth.\u00c2\u00a0 Marybeth is getting  married and, even though they haven&#8217;t spoken in 10 years, she would like  Allison to be in the wedding.\u00c2\u00a0 Allison, meanwhile, hasn&#8217;t been home in  years due to the fact that she left her hometown ages ago after not  wanting to confront her parents about the fact that she was gay.\u00c2\u00a0  Allison goes through a number of possible responses and ends up with one  that tells her story briefly but politely.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a silent book  (except for all the letters and attempted letters, that is), so we do  get a brief glimpse of Allison enjoying her daily life.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, this is  too short to do much of anything but make a point, which it does  beautifully.\u00c2\u00a0 This is well worth seeking out, and I&#8217;m instantly curious  to see her other comics, which is always a good sign&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 $2<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/theletter2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"theletter2\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/theletter2.jpg\" alt=\"theletter2\" width=\"429\" height=\"537\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website The Letter What is the best way to respond to a voice from your past?\u00c2\u00a0 This comic is an excellent attempt to examine that concept.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m old enough now that there are plenty of people I haven&#8217;t seen or heard from in 5, 10, even 15 years that I once considered really good friends, [&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":[3767,1472],"class_list":["post-13665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-karla-krupala","tag-the-letter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13665","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=13665"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13667,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13665\/revisions\/13667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}