{"id":13782,"date":"2010-04-28T01:51:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T06:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13782"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:45:28","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:45:28","slug":"mason-jeff-editor-9-11-emergency-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13782","title":{"rendered":"Mason, Jeff (editor) &#8211; 9-11 Emergency Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indyworld.com\/altcomics\/index.html\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/9111.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"447\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1891867121\/xeroxarmy-20\">9-11  Emergency Relief<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been sitting here, trying to come at this from an objective  angle, and I just can&#8217;t. Sorry. Too many of the events of that day day  are still too close to me, even though I didn&#8217;t directly know anybody  involved in this and I&#8217;ve never been to New York. My fear about this  book, honestly, was that it would be too much. It would stir up too many  memories, the stories of what happened to various comic artists that  day would all have a kind of awful sameness: panic, searching for loved  ones, wondering if it was the end of the world. I guess a lot of them do  have that theme, because that&#8217;s what they were going through, but these  artists are way too talented to leave it at that. There are individual  touches everywhere, from Dean Haspiel having burning office papers blow  in his window to Jenny Gonzalez seeing the day through a haze of psych  medication, to Donna Barr being too hung over to really know what was  going on, to everybody else. On a purely comic level, this book shows  you the insides of a lot of comic people who hide behind being  sarcastic, or weird, or just plain mean at times. This benefits the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redcross.org\/\">Red  Cross<\/a> and everybody you can think of from comics is here. There&#8217;s no  reason in the world not to get this, unless those events are still too  close to you, because this will bring it all back. It&#8217;s worth it for the  internal dialogue Tom Hart has with Hutch Owens alone. Sadly, a lot of  the things Hutch was cynically talking about have come true since then,  as everybody in any kind of political office is using this tragedy to  shove their own agenda through, and every big business is laying off all  kinds of people <em>after <\/em>taking money from the government not to  lay people off, and people don&#8217;t seem to care. Before I get to rambling  too much about this and the state of the world, let me just say one last  thing: God bless Peter Kuper for keeping some things in perspective.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/9112.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"747\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website 9-11 Emergency Relief I&#8217;ve been sitting here, trying to come at this from an objective angle, and I just can&#8217;t. Sorry. Too many of the events of that day day are still too close to me, even though I didn&#8217;t directly know anybody involved in this and I&#8217;ve never been to New York. 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