{"id":3088,"date":"2010-05-02T17:36:11","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T22:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=3088"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:44:35","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:44:35","slug":"willis-steve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=3088","title":{"rendered":"Willis, Steve &#8211; Retreads #14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.evergreen.edu\/alumni\/writersproject\/stevewillis.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PO Box 390, McCleary, WA 98557-0390<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/retreads11.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" align=\"baseline\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Retreads #14<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t until after I finished this that I realized that this wasn&#8217;t a one time collection of various sketches and stories, but instead part of a long series of such books. Assuming that the other ones are all like this one, that is, which I suppose isn&#8217;t the safest of assumptions. Why not save everybody up for a &#8220;proper&#8221; comic and then but out a few sketchbooks?? Who knows, personal preference is what it is. There&#8217;s a surprising amount of &#8220;meat&#8221; here for a sketchbook type thingie though, so nobody is going to go away feeling cheated. It starts with a few playing card-like descriptions of various characters and events through history including Harry Truman (not that one), Jacko the Sasquatch, and some flying disks in the sky. After that it&#8217;s mostly a series of random sketches, promotional posters for various art shows and local events, and the one two page strip that I sampled below, with a bit of an obvious punchline but, as they say, it&#8217;s funny because it&#8217;s true. Still worth it for the $2 price tag in my book, unless you&#8217;re absolutely against any kind of sketchbook chicanery. $2<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/retreads12.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" align=\"baseline\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website PO Box 390, McCleary, WA 98557-0390 Retreads #14 It wasn&#8217;t until after I finished this that I realized that this wasn&#8217;t a one time collection of various sketches and stories, but instead part of a long series of such books. Assuming that the other ones are all like this one, that is, which I [&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":[2385,3006],"class_list":["post-3088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-retreads","tag-steve-willis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088","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=3088"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16453,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088\/revisions\/16453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}