{"id":237,"date":"2005-11-17T11:22:58","date_gmt":"2005-11-17T16:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=237"},"modified":"2005-11-17T11:22:58","modified_gmt":"2005-11-17T16:22:58","slug":"arts-based-elementary-cartoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"Arts-Based Elementary Cartoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a cartoon I originally did for a charity auction for the Winston-Salem Arts-Based Elementary School.  The first version of this was executed live in an hour (although I &#8220;cheated&#8221; a bit and did a lot of the pencilling beforehand) then immediately auctioned off.  This version is a commissioned re-creation of that.  It chronicles the lives of three people who attend the school using a sort of Chris Ware-style diagram\/comic&#8230;except instead of being depressing and maudlin it&#8217;s goofy and cutesy.  (Now, where&#8217;s my copy of Kochalka&#8217;s <em>Cute Manifesto<\/em>?)<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/upload_images\/abe.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/upload_images\/_abe.png\" title=\"ABE cartoon\" alt=\"ABE cartoon\" width=\"250\" height=\"99\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size:10px\">(Click for larger image)<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a cartoon I originally did for a charity auction for the Winston-Salem Arts-Based Elementary School. The first version of this was executed live in an hour (although I &#8220;cheated&#8221; a bit and did a lot of the pencilling beforehand) then immediately auctioned off. This version is a commissioned re-creation of that. It chronicles the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=237\">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-3P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237"}],"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=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}