{"id":8712,"date":"2010-04-22T20:24:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T01:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8712"},"modified":"2010-03-25T13:50:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T18:50:02","slug":"catmull-ben-monster-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8712","title":{"rendered":"Catmull, Ben &#8211; Monster Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencatmull.blogspot.com\/.\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/monsterexpress1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Monster Express<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Christ, where the heck has Ben Catmull been? I knew the art in this looked familiar, but I didn&#8217;t know who did this until I turned it over at the end and saw his name. Has he been doing a bunch of stuff that I missed and, if so, could somebody point me to it? This is the story of a man on a train, trying to have a peaceful train ride. He unexpectedly is forced to sit next to a chatterbox, but can&#8217;t seem to leave his car for any reason because there&#8217;s a monster on the loose, killing everbody on board. The only action we see is through their train car, with injured (or headless) people running by in a panic while the general calm of their seating area remains the same. His art has a simple charm to it that&#8217;s hard to match (what does he use for the shading, watercolors?) and the man can tell a story, so I don&#8217;t know what more you could ask for here. It&#8217;s short and I&#8217;d guess it&#8217;s between 2 and 3 bucks, as the packaging is pretty simple. Check it out and get the rest of his stuff too, he&#8217;s one of the great ones that I&#8217;ve seen in the past few years. Send him <a href=\"mailto:ben@uncommonplace.com\">e-mail<\/a> or check out more of his stuff <a href=\"http:\/\/www.serializer.net\/\">online<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/monsterexpress2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"582\" height=\"379\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Monster Express Christ, where the heck has Ben Catmull been? I knew the art in this looked familiar, but I didn&#8217;t know who did this until I turned it over at the end and saw his name. Has he been doing a bunch of stuff that I missed and, if so, could somebody point [&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":[2604,795],"class_list":["post-8712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-ben-catmull","tag-monster-express"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8712","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=8712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8714,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8712\/revisions\/8714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}