{"id":629,"date":"2007-03-04T23:48:44","date_gmt":"2007-03-05T03:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=629"},"modified":"2007-03-04T23:50:41","modified_gmt":"2007-03-05T03:50:41","slug":"chris-ware-animation-on-this-american-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=629","title":{"rendered":"Chris Ware Animation on This American Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><span class=\"postbody\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogsmithmedia.com\/www.tvsquad.com\/media\/2007\/02\/tal2.jpg\" \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"postbody\" \/><br \/>\n<span class=\"postbody\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\">This may be old news for those more in the know than I, but&#8230; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>For any Chris Ware fans around: A while back, a friend of mine who works at the local NPR station gave me an early preview DVD of the upcoming Showtime version of <span style=\"font-style: italic\">This American Life<\/span> and I just watched it tonight. One of the things mentioned was that there&#8217;s and episode that&#8217;s going to feature animation by cartoonist Chris Ware.<\/p>\n<p>I did some Googling to see if I could turn up anything about this and supposedly, &#8220;The third episode&#8230;features a story animated entirely by Chris Ware.&#8221; (<a class=\"postlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tvsquad.com\/2007\/02\/23\/this-american-life-an-early-look\/\">link<\/a>). Apparently some of this animation is on a newer, different preview DVD that&#8217;s being shown as part of the promotional gear-up for this show. In Winston that&#8217;s going to be happening at <a href=\"http:\/\/the-garage.ws\">The Garage<\/a>, when I&#8217;m regrettably out of town doing a cartooning workshop.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhoo, if you&#8217;re a Ware fan (a &#8220;Chrismaniac&#8221;?) keep an eye out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This may be old news for those more in the know than I, but&#8230; For any Chris Ware fans around: A while back, a friend of mine who works at the local NPR station gave me an early preview DVD of the upcoming Showtime version of This American Life and I just watched it tonight. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=629\">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-a9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629"}],"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=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}