{"id":14181,"date":"2010-05-02T19:36:52","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T00:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=14181"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:44:26","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:44:26","slug":"various-anthologies-paper-cuts-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=14181","title":{"rendered":"Various Anthologies &#8211; Paper Cuts Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/scubotch\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/papercuts1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"494\" height=\"314\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Paper Cuts Machine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wow, that cover is tremendously hard to see in a scan. This is an  anthology of autobiographical comics, which automatically means that I  like it, so I&#8217;ll try to be a bit more critical this time. There are a  couple of great stories by Max Clotfelter, one about almost getting  killed in grade school and one about the average events of a week. Every  embarrassing detail is exposed here, which is always fun. Then there&#8217;s a  story from Liz Prince about who&#8217;s stinkier, which is a short but fun  strip. Aarow Mew just sort of wanders around aimlessly, and I can&#8217;t tell  you why it bugged me here and not in the other strips, but there you  go. Kelly Froh has a great story about a crush on an art school teacher,  Rob Schultz has a one pager about wackiness in Iraq (maybe not the  funniest subject matter in the world) and Kaz Strzepek has a story about  trying to make out with his girlfriend back when he still lived with  his parents. Max probably had the best looking art in here, with Kaz a  close second, if you&#8217;re going to by that standard, even though it&#8217;s  usually not a tremendously important criteria in autobio. The important  thing is that everything in here is engaging and interesting (except  maybe for Aaron&#8217;s story, but that&#8217;s a question of taste). I&#8217;m going out  on a limb and saying it&#8217;s $2, check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/profile.myspace.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;friendID=30760800\">website<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/papercuts2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"754\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Paper Cuts Machine Wow, that cover is tremendously hard to see in a scan. This is an anthology of autobiographical comics, which automatically means that I like it, so I&#8217;ll try to be a bit more critical this time. There are a couple of great stories by Max Clotfelter, one about almost getting killed [&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":[2794,3743,4101,2626,3913,2625,2259,4100],"class_list":["post-14181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-aaron-mew","tag-kaz","tag-kaz-strzepek","tag-kelly-froh","tag-liz-prince","tag-max-clotfelter","tag-paper-cuts-machine","tag-rob-schultz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14181","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=14181"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16413,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14181\/revisions\/16413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}