{"id":176,"date":"2005-07-23T09:13:56","date_gmt":"2005-07-23T14:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=176"},"modified":"2005-07-23T09:13:56","modified_gmt":"2005-07-23T14:13:56","slug":"stuff-that-i-got-at-the-charlotte-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"Stuff that I got at the Charlotte Con"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just recently gotten to the bottom of the enormous stack of mini-comics that I got at the Charlotte Heroes-Con.  I&#8217;ve still got a few regular comics left to read from that show&#8212;although I bought very few non-hand made comics there.  Anyway, here&#8217;s a few notable items among the stuff I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>It&#8217;s the Attic Bugs: I Shouldn&#8217;t Have Eaten the Fish<\/strong>, <strong>It&#8217;s the Attic Bugs: Everyday is a New Disaster<\/strong>, <strong>Stop Drop and Roll<\/strong>,<strong>Quitter<\/strong>  and <strong>Duflachies<\/strong> &#8211; by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jchriscampbell.com\/\">J. Chris Campbell<\/a> &#8211; All great stuff as usual from Chris.  Turns out I already had the story in <strong>Stop Drop and Roll<\/strong> in the <strong>FLUKE<\/strong> anthology, but I&#8217;m glad to have it in minicomics format, especially since there&#8217;s a great gag in the story that really works best if you have to flip a page to see the &#8220;punchline&#8221; panel, rather than having it visible on a multi-panel page as in the other version I&#8217;ve got of this story.  J. Chris Campbell, along with James Turner, are the only two cartoonist I can think of who really use vector computer graphics well in the comics medium.  Check Chris&#8217; stuff out.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Anxiety, Sleep Problems &#038; Depression<\/strong> #1 and #2 &#8211; by Josh Latta &#8211; I think I may have seen one of this guy&#8217;s strips in an anthology somewhere, but these books are my first real exposure to his work.   The books star a 20-something-ish rabbit who works at Wal-Mart and follow his largely mundane day-to-day affairs.  While thinly veiled autobiography is usually a recipe for mini-comics disaster, such is not the case with these books which are beautifully drawn in a kinda-60s-underground style with lots o&#8217; zip-a-tone, and are laugh out loud hilarious.  They can be ordered at <a href=\"http:\/\/cutegirldemographics.com\">http:\/\/cutegirldemographics.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Either <strong>The Hunger: Part One<\/strong> or <strong>Less than a Monkey #0<\/strong> (it&#8217;s hard to tell from the cover what the title of this book is) &#8211; by Tim Darden &#8211; When I first glanced at the interior of this book I was aghast at what seemed to be sloppy unfinished artwork, but once I examined it closer I realized that this look is deliberate; the artist has combined inked drawings, pencil drawings, collage, zip-a-tone, Photoshop effects and whatever else he wanted to throw in to this book&#8230;and once you get used to the inconsistancy among the panels, the scratched out bits of dialog and the like, it&#8217;s acutally a pretty neat aesthetic effect.  I couldn&#8217;t make hide or hare out of the story, but it&#8217;s interesting nonetheless<\/li>\n<li><strong>Misfortune Cookie<\/strong> by Justin Gammon &#8211; Please stop reading now, and order this amazing, beautifully drawn mini-comic (about a city populated by forks which is attacked by flying fortune cookies) <em>right now<\/em>!!  Order it at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wideawakepress.com\/\">http:\/\/www.wideawakepress.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Are you still reading?!  I told you to order that book above!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just recently gotten to the bottom of the enormous stack of mini-comics that I got at the Charlotte Heroes-Con. I&#8217;ve still got a few regular comics left to read from that show&#8212;although I bought very few non-hand made comics there. Anyway, here&#8217;s a few notable items among the stuff I got: It&#8217;s the Attic &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=176\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[45],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-2Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176"}],"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=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}