{"id":8373,"date":"2010-04-22T13:24:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T18:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8373"},"modified":"2010-03-24T14:33:01","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T19:33:01","slug":"bieri-sean-jape-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8373","title":{"rendered":"Bieri, Sean &#8211; Jape #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/themanwhojaped.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/12\/jape11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"jape11\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/12\/jape11.jpg\" alt=\"jape11\" width=\"242\" height=\"317\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jape #1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ah, Jape.\u00c2\u00a0 The little funny comic that always, always made me laugh,  and still does whenever I see a new collection of comics.\u00c2\u00a0 Which is far  too rarely, but apparently all these people that got me into this  business back in the day have real lives these days, or have just  figured out that nobody gets rich making mini comics, which leaves the  rest of us without that essential funny.\u00c2\u00a0 One of these Japes reached a  perfect level of humor rarely seen in the world, and I look forward to  finding it in my trip back through these minis, but this one wasn&#8217;t it.\u00c2\u00a0  Don&#8217;t get me wrong, it was still funnier than most things in this  world, but it wasn&#8217;t that one issue that got lodged in my brain and  never went away.\u00c2\u00a0 Stories in here include a creepy true tale of mass  transit, the fickle nature of women, having somebody else use the  bathroom while you&#8217;re taking a bath (and lying about the, um, nature of  their visit), making interviewees eat a bowl of shit to gauge their  reactions, dating the naked model from art class, and reverse  discrimination.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m started to sound like a broken record, but it sure  seems like most of these old minis were never collected, and I doubt if  they&#8217;re still available.\u00c2\u00a0 If they are there certainly doesn&#8217;t appear to  be any easy way to find them.\u00c2\u00a0 Hello Turtle people?\u00c2\u00a0 There&#8217;s a vast pile  of things that should be collected into graphic novel form just sitting  around out there.\u00c2\u00a0 Start with Jape!\u00c2\u00a0 $.50<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/12\/jape12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"jape12\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/12\/jape12.jpg\" alt=\"jape12\" width=\"334\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Jape #1 Ah, Jape.\u00c2\u00a0 The little funny comic that always, always made me laugh, and still does whenever I see a new collection of comics.\u00c2\u00a0 Which is far too rarely, but apparently all these people that got me into this business back in the day have real lives these days, or have just figured [&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":[657,2522],"class_list":["post-8373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-jape","tag-sean-bieri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8373","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=8373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8384,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8373\/revisions\/8384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}