{"id":12490,"date":"2009-10-28T16:03:26","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T20:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2009\/10\/28\/12490.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:52:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:52:49","slug":"book-report-explainers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2009\/10\/28\/book-report-explainers\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Explainers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Oddly enough, I had read almost all of the strips in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantagraphics.com\/index.php?page=shop.product_details&amp;flypage=shop.flypage&amp;product_id=532&amp;category_id=546&amp;manufacturer_id=0&amp;option=com_virtuemart&amp;Itemid=62\">Explainers<\/a>, the newish collection of early Jules Feiffer cartoons, back in my misspent proverbial. I&#8217;m not sure what collection I had hold of from what library. I know I had a couple of great, great collections, including one that divided the strips by who was President (from Ike through to Jimmy or possibly Reagan, I don&#8217;t remember). Loved that stuff.\n<p>Re-reading (I was hoping to find a bunch of stuff I hadn&#8217;t read, as with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2005\/06\/17\/2938.html\">The Complete Peanuts 1953-1954<\/a>, mixed in with the stuff I remembered, but I didn&#8217;t find any that seemed new to me), I was struck by how <I>seventies<\/i> these fifties-sixties comics seemed. There was a very cynical, very nasty-minded attitude about sex and gender differences, very much disillusioned and brutal. I didn&#8217;t like them.\n<p>Oh, there were quite a few that I really did like, and I maintain that they are great works, in their way, but they rub me wrong, these days. I was a very cynical teenager, I think&#8212;or perhaps I was not very cynical at all, so that the cynicism of others was more entertaining to me and less depressing. Well. I wound up returning the collection to the library without finishing the last fifth or so of it. I meant to finish it, but I never got around to it, and then the thing was overdue.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger goes back to the beginning, to find it all different now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18905,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12490\/revisions\/18905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}