{"id":1552,"date":"2009-05-20T11:58:35","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T15:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1552"},"modified":"2009-05-20T11:58:35","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T15:58:35","slug":"strange-eggs-jumps-the-shark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1552","title":{"rendered":"Strange Eggs Jumps the Shark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just uploaded the completed files for the third installment of SLG&#8217;s occasional anthology, <em>Strange Eggs<\/em>.\u00a0 This issue is titled <em>Strange Eggs Jumps the Shark<\/em> and here&#8217;s the official skinny:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Strange Eggs are making the jump to the big time &#8211; television, video games, cartoons, the works! We get several different takes on the brainstorming sessions where network executives cover every possible angle on the Strange Eggs. Every idea is considered, from the absurdly disturbing to the downright silly. Creators as diverse as Jhonen Vasquez, Ben Towle and James Turner all try and save the most reviled kid&#8217;s show on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>Release Date:\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 7\/29\/2009<br \/>\nCover Price: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 $4.95<br \/>\nPreviews Code: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 MAY090640<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the cover of the book, by me and Tara Billinger:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"sejts_cover\" href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2009\/05\/sejts_cover.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1553 centered\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2009\/05\/sejts_cover.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"sejts_cover\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This issue&#8217;s got a particularly strong lineup, I think: Jhonen Vasquez, James Turner, Ben Towle, J. Marc Schmidt, Jorge Santillan, David Ray, Chris Reilly, Todd Meister, Roger Langridge, Kenny Keil, J. Chris Campbell, Jen Feinberg, Paul Friedrich,\u00a0 Chris Grine, Tara Billinger, Steve Ahlquist, Derf, and Colin Miller.\u00a0 Here are a couple of pages that set up the theme\/framing story of the book, drawn by me and written by Chris Reilly:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"pg_1_final_resized\" href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2009\/05\/pg_1_final_resized.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1554 centered\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2009\/05\/pg_1_final_resized.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"pg_1_final_resized\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"pg_2_final_resized\" href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2009\/05\/pg_2_final_resized.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1555 centered\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2009\/05\/pg_2_final_resized.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"pg_2_final_resized\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just uploaded the completed files for the third installment of SLG&#8217;s occasional anthology, Strange Eggs.\u00a0 This issue is titled Strange Eggs Jumps the Shark and here&#8217;s the official skinny: The Strange Eggs are making the jump to the big time &#8211; television, video games, cartoons, the works! We get several different takes on the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1552\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,45],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-p2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1557,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions\/1557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}