{"id":359,"date":"2011-06-30T22:38:28","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T10:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thunderguy.com\/bennett\/?p=359"},"modified":"2011-06-30T22:38:28","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T10:38:28","slug":"the-fate-of-the-artist-eddie-campbell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2011\/06\/30\/the-fate-of-the-artist-eddie-campbell\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fate of the Artist &#8212; Eddie Campbell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every time I read a graphic novel, I become keenly aware of yet another vast area of culture that I am largely oblivious of.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004JZWMEE\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=thunderguycom-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399373&#038;creativeASIN=B004JZWMEE\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/the-fate-of-the-artist.jpg\" alt=\"The Fate of the Artist at Amazon.com\" title=\"The Fate of the Artist\" width=\"353\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/the-fate-of-the-artist.jpg 353w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/the-fate-of-the-artist-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 353px) 100vw, 353px\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B004JZWMEE&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399373\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This clever, self-referential, beautiful book is a kind of fictionalised biography of a graphic novelist, as written by&#8230; himself. It&#8217;s also a mystery, since he has actually disappeared, and clues are pieced together in interviews with his family. There&#8217;s text, photostrips, and many comic strips. There are appearances from historical figures from literature, music and other arts. God is also a minor character. There&#8217;s a lot in this book &#8212; while reading it I had the same feeling I get when talking with a bunch of smart people. I learned some things, I saw things from a different viewpoint, and I had a lot of fun. And that is what I call a really good book.<\/p>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time I read a graphic novel, I become keenly aware of yet another vast area of culture that I am largely oblivious of. This clever, self-referential, beautiful book is a kind of fictionalised biography of a graphic novelist, as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2011\/06\/30\/the-fate-of-the-artist-eddie-campbell\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,46,47],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-books","tag-comics","tag-eddie-campbell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}