{"id":8407,"date":"2010-04-22T14:06:53","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T19:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8407"},"modified":"2010-03-24T14:51:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T19:51:10","slug":"birchall-david-editor-tegne-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8407","title":{"rendered":"Birchall, David (editor) &#8211; Tegne #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/davidmbirchall.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/tegne21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"tegne21\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/tegne21.jpg\" alt=\"tegne21\" width=\"347\" height=\"490\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tegne #2 (anthology)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just a note right off the bat: I&#8217;m not entirely sure that David is  the editor of this book, but I do know that his publishing group seems  to be the one putting this out, and he seems to be the one in charge of  it.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s a lot of assumptions to make, but if it&#8217;s wrong it&#8217;ll get  its own page, OK?\u00c2\u00a0 As I&#8217;m still making up how to review anthologies as I  go, here&#8217;s a list of contributors: Helen Brealey, David Birchall,  Afsoon Hayley, Malcy Duff, Reni Fahima, Zeke Clough, Nick Birchall, Mara  Duchemer, Honeypears, Tim Gaze, Crippa Almqvist, Jethre Brice, Dr.  Nightfield &amp; Laima Jaunnema.\u00c2\u00a0 Apologies to anybody whose name I got  wrong, but man that type was a bear to read.\u00c2\u00a0 Flipping through this  book, it&#8217;s exactly what an anthology should be: a wide variety of visual  styles.\u00c2\u00a0 Once you dig into it in a bit more detail, while there are  some excellent stories, plenty of it didn&#8217;t do a thing for me.\u00c2\u00a0 The  simple black images, the simpler black smudges: just not my thing.\u00c2\u00a0  There are times, as well, where legible text is sacrficed for the sake  of the art.\u00c2\u00a0 That might be a better idea for the picture, but it doesn&#8217;t  do me a lot of good if I can&#8217;t get across the point of the story.\u00c2\u00a0  Still, it&#8217;s silly to disregard this whole thing just because I can&#8217;t get  behind some of the stories.\u00c2\u00a0 The strange mirror world of Malcy Duff was  creepily engaging, I loved the three strips by Mara Duchomer (about  work, a man who could pour coffee directly into his head, and mice  getting back at a cat), and I think Nick Birchall&#8217;s Mr. Wiggins strip  may have given me a seizure (I mean that in a good way).\u00c2\u00a0 Like any  anthology you have to take the good with the bad, and there&#8217;s just  enough good in here to make it all worth it.\u00c2\u00a0 Again, the price is a  guess&#8230; $6!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/tegne22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"tegne22\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/tegne22.jpg\" alt=\"tegne22\" width=\"463\" height=\"657\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Tegne #2 (anthology) Just a note right off the bat: I&#8217;m not entirely sure that David is the editor of this book, but I do know that his publishing group seems to be the one putting this out, and he seems to be the one in charge of it.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s a lot of assumptions [&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":[2531,665],"class_list":["post-8407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-david-birchall","tag-tegne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8407","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=8407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8409,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8407\/revisions\/8409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}