{"id":566,"date":"2006-12-19T13:47:06","date_gmt":"2006-12-19T17:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=566"},"modified":"2006-12-21T10:32:01","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T14:32:01","slug":"review-of-shadowland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=566","title":{"rendered":"Review of SHADOWLAND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreporter.com\/index.php\/briefings\/cr_reviews\/7054\/\">The Comics Reporter reviews Kim Deitch&#8217;s SHADOWLAND<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really glad to see this review of Kim Deitch&#8217;s <em>Shadowland<\/em>&#8211;the first such review I&#8217;ve seen.  Despite being a contemporary of many of the &#8220;big names&#8221; in underground comics, Deitch (and for that matter another favorite of mine, Jack Jackson) seems to often get swept under the rug.  This collection of Deitch&#8217;s Al Ledicker stories and is as good, if not better than, his last big collection, <em>Boulevard of Broken Dreams<\/em>.  This large format, nicely put-together volume is a definite must-have that&#8217;s so far been overlooked.  Read the linked review for more info&#8230;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreporter.com\/images\/uploads\/shadowland.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: Just noticed that Dan Nadel has picked Shadowland as his #1 comic book of 2006.  <a href=\"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/for-record-uh-huh-sure_19.html\">Says he<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Another masterpiece from Deitch, who, more than any other cartoonist working today, is in full control of the medium. This tragi-comic yarn is moving, terrifying and deeply deeply awe-inspiring. The man is a national treasure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Comics Reporter reviews Kim Deitch&#8217;s SHADOWLAND I&#8217;m really glad to see this review of Kim Deitch&#8217;s Shadowland&#8211;the first such review I&#8217;ve seen. Despite being a contemporary of many of the &#8220;big names&#8221; in underground comics, Deitch (and for that matter another favorite of mine, Jack Jackson) seems to often get swept under the rug. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=566\">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":"","_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[45],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-98","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566"}],"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=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}