{"id":615,"date":"2007-01-30T11:32:11","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T15:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=615"},"modified":"2007-01-30T11:33:22","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T15:33:22","slug":"the-greatest-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=615","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking through Diamond&#8217;s solicitations that are due in this week to see if there&#8217;s anything I wanted to order last minute, and I noticed that Drawn &#038; Quarterly was soliciting a collection of the first fifty or so issues of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.king-cat.net\/\">John Porcellino&#8217;s King Cat Comics<\/a>.  I like Porcellino&#8217;s work and ordered the book, but I was a bit taken aback by the text of the solicitation blurb, presumably written by someone at D&#038;Q.  It began thusly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;John Porcellino has long been considered the greatest of all cartoonists&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Really? I&#8217;m not so sure of that&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image614\" alt=\"kingcat.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2007\/01\/kingcat.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking through Diamond&#8217;s solicitations that are due in this week to see if there&#8217;s anything I wanted to order last minute, and I noticed that Drawn &#038; Quarterly was soliciting a collection of the first fifty or so issues of John Porcellino&#8217;s King Cat Comics. I like Porcellino&#8217;s work and ordered the book, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=615\">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-9V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615"}],"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=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}