{"id":1848,"date":"2008-07-21T04:47:45","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T08:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/2008\/07\/21\/kazu-liked-matsumoto\/"},"modified":"2009-01-01T23:23:47","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T03:23:47","slug":"kazu-liked-matsumoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=1848","title":{"rendered":"Kazu Liked Matsumoto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tekkonkinkreet-allinone.jpg\" id=\"image1830\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/tekkonkinkreet-allinone.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was happy to read that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boltcity.com\/?article=317\"><strong>Kazu Kibuishi really enjoyed Taiyo Matsumoto&#8217;s <em>Tekkon Kinkreet<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, particularly since he says it was the interview I published that pushed him to finally pick the book up off his to-read pile. The piece he wrote on approaching Matsumoto&#8217;s work, and the book itself, is also really interesting. I&#8217;m aware that when you push a creator or a work really hard, people (particularly hardcore comics readers) tend to bristle. The number of comments in my feed reader in a given week that are some variation on living or not living up to the &#8220;hype&#8221; is kind of ridiculous&#8230; Anyway, Kazu lays his thought-processes on engaging the work bare, and like I said, it&#8217;s worth reading.<\/p>\n<p>So this means that yes Jim, you have to read it again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Christopher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was happy to read that Kazu Kibuishi really enjoyed Taiyo Matsumoto&#8217;s Tekkon Kinkreet, particularly since he says it was the interview I published that pushed him to finally pick the book up off his to-read pile. The piece he wrote on approaching Matsumoto&#8217;s work, and the book itself, is also really interesting. I&#8217;m aware &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=1848\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kazu Liked Matsumoto&#8221;<\/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":[1,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-taiyo-matsumoto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2126,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions\/2126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}