{"id":13805,"date":"2010-04-28T02:15:10","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T07:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13805"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:45:27","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:45:27","slug":"mcshane-james-james-mcshane-selected-comics-2003-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13805","title":{"rendered":"McShane, James – James McShane Selected Comics 2003-2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

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James McShane Selected Comics 2003-2008<\/strong><\/p>\n

Any Kramer’s Ergot readers out there?\u00c2\u00a0 Of course there are, there are only so many decent anthologies in the world and you’re reading this website.\u00c2\u00a0 There aren’t that many degrees of separation in the small press comics world.\u00c2\u00a0 If you are, you’ve heard of James McShane before.\u00c2\u00a0 If you’re like me and have enjoyed Kramer’s Ergot but have a terrible memory, well, it’ll basically be new to you.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a selection of “bests”, with a few familiar themes repeating.\u00c2\u00a0 The non-repeating stuff involves a mundane day out with a friend, a very handy guide on how to do book or zine binding yourself, and an extended (mostly silent) day called Peck.\u00c2\u00a0 James seems to have invented a new form of diary strip (or at least used one I’d never heard of) where he draws his day in 10 minute increments.\u00c2\u00a0 There are three of these pieces in here, and you could make a strong argument that that’s too many in a collection of only his best comics.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s fascinating at first, then painfully mundane, then more than just a bit repetitive.\u00c2\u00a0 Also I don’t think it takes 20 minutes to shave, or if it does I’ve been doing it wrong for years.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, it is an interesting concept, one that I hope other artists pick up on after seeing this.\u00c2\u00a0 Finally there are a few strips with The Sleepy Creatures, mostly formless pets that seem to do nothing but sleep.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m curious how these strips first appeared, as the repetition of the title throughout the story doesn’t make a whole lot of sense for something that was released all at once.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s not a whole lot to the creatures (as they mostly only sleep), but the interactions between their owners and their eventual disillusionment with the creatures is fascinating.\u00c2\u00a0 All told it’s not a bad pile of strips, I was apparently just looking for something with more “zazz” today, so don’t mind my grumpiness.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s nothing wrong with something that deals with the mundane as well as this does.\u00c2\u00a0 $5<\/p>\n

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Website James McShane Selected Comics 2003-2008 Any Kramer’s Ergot readers out there?\u00c2\u00a0 Of course there are, there are only so many decent anthologies in the world and you’re reading this website.\u00c2\u00a0 There aren’t that many degrees of separation in the small press comics world.\u00c2\u00a0 If you are, you’ve heard of James McShane before.\u00c2\u00a0 If you’re […]<\/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":[3828,3829],"class_list":["post-13805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-james-mcshane","tag-selected-comics-2003-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13805","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=13805"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13808,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13805\/revisions\/13808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}