{"id":742,"date":"2008-06-24T15:39:12","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T21:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=742"},"modified":"2008-06-24T15:39:12","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T21:39:12","slug":"gil-of-finland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=742","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Gil of Finland&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artists for &#8220;Gil Thorp&#8221; changed a few months ago, and the new illustrator is coming close to perfecting his predecessor&#8217;s weird and impossible angularities, strange postures, and continuing, crappy athletic skills.<\/p>\n<p>A few of the gents over at CC commented that one of the recent panels looked as though some &#8220;inspiration&#8221; had been drawn from Tom of Finland artwork (if you&#8217;re unfamiliar with Tom of Finland, you&#8217;re pretty much not a gay man, or you&#8217;re a gay man living in Carlsbad Caverns).  Yow &#8212; they did indeed have a point, and oh, that the search for a new artist had continued. (Well, that&#8217;s pretty unlikely, as Tom died in 1991&#8230;you find the most interesting facts on the internet!  At least I might&#8217;ve followed what-passes-for-a-plot-line in the strip more closely.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/not-gil-thorp-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-743\" title=\"not-gil-thorp-1\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/not-gil-thorp-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/not-gil-thorp-1.jpg 580w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/not-gil-thorp-1-249x129.jpg 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artists for &#8220;Gil Thorp&#8221; changed a few months ago, and the new illustrator is coming close to perfecting his predecessor&#8217;s weird and impossible angularities, strange postures, and continuing, crappy athletic skills. A few of the gents over at CC commented that one of the recent panels looked as though some &#8220;inspiration&#8221; had been drawn from [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous-comics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742","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=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}