{"id":1089,"date":"2010-08-29T20:41:27","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T00:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2010-08-29T20:41:27","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T00:41:27","slug":"eden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2010\/08\/eden\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Eden<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:right; margin: 0 0 6px 8px\"><figure style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drawnandquarterly.com\/shopCatalogLong.php?item=a4c06ba190a467\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/eden.jpg\" alt=\"The Secret History of Science Fiction, edited by James Ptrick Kelly &amp; John Kessel, Tachyon Publications, 2010\" title=\"The Secret History of Science Fiction\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"size-full\" style=\"margin: 25px\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eden, by Pablo Holmberg, Drawn & Quarterly, 2010<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>Yes, these comics sometimes veer into the extremely sappy, but they&#8217;re metafictional and wonderfully fabular throughout. <i>Eden<\/i> collects more than 100 simple four-panel strips featuring a diminutive, somewhat rabbit-like king, or at least, someone who wears a crown, in a magical land. An extremely insightful na\u00efvite, of the sort that one hears in the occasional oracular pronunciation of a child, comes through at times. But these comics do not overlook death or other serious subjects. Holmberg, who writes and draws in Buenos Aires, has <i>Eden<\/i> and more available on <a href=\"http:\/\/kioskerman.com\/comics.html\">his website,<\/a> in Spanish. Odd that to learn about a Web comic, I had to go into my local comic store and buying a book, but it goes to show that book-based institutions have more than a retail function. And, it seems unlikely that Holmberg&#8217;s work would have appeared in translation without a publisher such as Drawn &#038; Quarterly. Through such everyday efforts, we sometimes find the extraordinary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, these comics sometimes veer into the extremely sappy, but they&#8217;re metafictional and wonderfully fabular throughout. Eden collects more than 100 simple four-panel strips featuring a diminutive, somewhat rabbit-like king, or at least, someone who wears a crown, in a magical land. An extremely insightful na\u00efvite, of the sort that one hears in the occasional &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2010\/08\/eden\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;<i>Eden<\/i>&#8220;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,18,32,9,7,13],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-1k","tag-books","tag-comics","tag-publishing","tag-review","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1093,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions\/1093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}