{"id":20823,"date":"2012-05-25T15:45:26","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T20:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=20823"},"modified":"2012-05-25T15:45:26","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T20:45:26","slug":"chrislip-bruce-thurber-of-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=20823","title":{"rendered":"Chrislip, Bruce – Thurber of Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thurber of Ohio<\/strong><\/p>\n

No, I didn’t forget to add the usual sample image, it’s just that this comic is four pages long and it seemed like cheating if I had 50% of it up here for free. Not that that would cut greatly into Bruce’s profits, as he’s only asking for $.25 per copy of this mini, but it’s more the principle of the thing. Anyway, this comic is a brief recap of the life of James Grover Thurber, a former cartoonist for the New Yorker who died in 1961. There are a few examples of his work (and his dedication to simplicity in his comics), a pretty funny anecdote from his time at the New Yorker and his deteriorating eyesight. This takes up the bulk of the book (he says of a book that is, again, four pages) and we see Thurber trying surgery and different kinds of special equipment before finally settling on a powerful microscope attached to his glasses. In case you were wondering, yes, it is possible to learn something new about the guy even in a very short book. It’s funny, informative and almost takes a turn for the tragic towards the end, so I’d say it’s worth a look. And if you happen to get this at a convention chances are you can get a few more minis from Bruce along with this one for right around a dollar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

E-mail Thurber of Ohio No, I didn’t forget to add the usual sample image, it’s just that this comic is four pages long and it seemed like cheating if I had 50% of it up here for free. Not that that would cut greatly into Bruce’s profits, as he’s only asking for $.25 per copy […]<\/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":[4838,4839],"class_list":["post-20823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-bruce-chrislip","tag-thurber-of-ohio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20823","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=20823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20825,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20823\/revisions\/20825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}