{"id":24386,"date":"2016-08-17T13:12:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T18:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=24386"},"modified":"2016-08-14T14:25:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T19:25:06","slug":"anniversary-week-extravaganza-day-3-81716","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=24386","title":{"rendered":"Anniversary Week Extravaganza! Day 3 (8\/17\/16)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quite a lot of flashbacks are hitting me as I dig through the archives; even a surface dig of this many reviews is bound to do that. What happened to all these artists who released a half dozen books over the course of a few years and then vanished? Are they happy and fulfilled now? Are they still drawing but just no longer releasing comics? What about Tony Consiglio, who was a favorite of mine for years (and who had the best rebuttal to Dave Sim&#8217;s speech at SPACE 2004 that was humanly possible)? Drop me a line is you&#8217;re somehow reading this, sent me comics to reviews many years ago and are still reading about comics while not making them. I do wonder sometimes<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?tag=emi-gennis\">Emi Gennis<\/a> (I don&#8217;t think she&#8217;s actually been around that long but I&#8217;m cheating on this one)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?tag=jenny-gonzalez\">Jenny Gonzalez<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?tag=john-hankiewicz\">John Hankiewicz<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?tag=tom-hart\">Tom Hart<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?tag=sam-henderson\">Sam Henderson<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?tag=paul-hornschemeier\">Paul Hornschemeier<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?tag=kevin-huizenga\">Kevin Huizenga<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?tag=max-ink\">Max Ink<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?tag=rob-jackson\">Rob Jackson<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?tag=dave-kiersh\">Dave Kiersh<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?tag=james-kochalka\">James Kochalka<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite a lot of flashbacks are hitting me as I dig through the archives; even a surface dig of this many reviews is bound to do that. What happened to all these artists who released a half dozen books over the course of a few years and then vanished? Are they happy and fulfilled now? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24386","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=24386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24387,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24386\/revisions\/24387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}