{"id":2040,"date":"2010-03-31T14:30:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T18:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2040"},"modified":"2010-03-31T14:32:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T18:32:14","slug":"interview-at-sweet-union-toonists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2040","title":{"rendered":"Interview at Sweet Union &#8216;Toonists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can find a short Q&amp;A\/interview with me over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/sweetuniontoonists.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/artist-profile-ben-towle.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sweet Union &#8216;Toonists<\/a> blog.\u00a0 The blog is promoting the upcoming Union West Regional Library Mini-Con (Indian Trail, NC &#8211;\u00a0 June 26-27) where I&#8217;ll be appearing along with folks like Al Bigley, Marcus Hamilton, and Chrissie Zullo.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Q: When did  you first discover comics and why did you notice them?<br \/>\nA: I&#8217;m not sure I can isolate one particular instance where I first  &#8220;discovered&#8221; comics; they were much more ubiquitous when I was younger  then they are now and you&#8217;d see comics at drug stores, grocery stores,  convenience stores, etc.  Probably the first comic books I ever  really read were the Marvel <em>Star Wars<\/em> tie-ins, from the mid 70s.   Before then, though, I&#8217;d read various collections of newspaper strips&#8211;<em>Little  Orphan Annie<\/em>, <em>Rupert<\/em> and <em>Betty Boop<\/em> are the ones I  recall.\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/sweetuniontoonists.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/artist-profile-ben-towle.html\" target=\"_blank\">read more&#8230;<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you click through to the main page, you can find a great interview with Marcus Hamilton along with a ton of his non-Dennis the Menace artwork that I&#8217;d never seen before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can find a short Q&amp;A\/interview with me over at the Sweet Union &#8216;Toonists blog.\u00a0 The blog is promoting the upcoming Union West Regional Library Mini-Con (Indian Trail, NC &#8211;\u00a0 June 26-27) where I&#8217;ll be appearing along with folks like Al Bigley, Marcus Hamilton, and Chrissie Zullo. Q: When did you first discover comics and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2040\">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":[45,43],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-wU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040"}],"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=2040"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2042,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions\/2042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}