{"id":6715,"date":"2011-09-04T18:30:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T00:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=6715"},"modified":"2011-09-04T18:31:23","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T00:31:23","slug":"6715","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=6715","title":{"rendered":"Mystery of the Universe #45"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you read <em>Cul de Sac<\/em>.\u00a0 The cartoonist, Richard Thompson, must have kids.\u00a0 <em>Real<\/em> kids with<em> strange <\/em>little imaginations and <em>weird and wonderful<\/em> ways to look at the world.\u00a0 Not like a lot of cartoonists who (A) never have had kids; (B) have had kids a gazillion years ago; or (C) &#8220;write&#8221; kids the way grammas and aunties want to see them, as adorable and passive, something vaguely plastic.<\/p>\n<p>The<em> Comics Curmudgeon<\/em>&#8216;s bourbon babe, unbuckled recently commented that certain cartoonists (she was looking rather pointedly at Jeff Keane) really ought to take a tip from Richard Thompson, who knows how to work with the child characters in his strip &#8212; this is a good thing as <em>Cul de Sac<\/em> is a family-based strip.<\/p>\n<p>I thought that was a little harsh.\u00a0 I think way down deep, li&#8217;l Jeffy Keane is in those circular panels,\u00a0 crying to get out and express himself.\u00a0 Maybe there&#8217;s just a big, fat man in front of him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/New-FC2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6716\" title=\"New FC\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/New-FC2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/New-FC2.jpg 320w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/New-FC2-219x250.jpg 219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you read Cul de Sac.\u00a0 The cartoonist, Richard Thompson, must have kids.\u00a0 Real kids with strange little imaginations and weird and wonderful ways to look at the world.\u00a0 Not like a lot of cartoonists who (A) never have had kids; (B) have had kids a gazillion years ago; or (C) &#8220;write&#8221; kids the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous-comics","category-family-circus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6715"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6718,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6715\/revisions\/6718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}