{"id":207,"date":"2007-05-09T16:25:04","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T21:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/2007\/05\/09\/canadian-steve-macisaac-gets-a-xeric-grant\/"},"modified":"2007-05-09T16:25:04","modified_gmt":"2007-05-09T21:25:04","slug":"canadian-steve-macisaac-gets-a-xeric-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=207","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Steve MacIsaac gets a Xeric Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"shirtlifter-cover.gif\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/shirtlifter-cover.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"shirtlifter-cover.gif\" id=\"image206\" title=\"shirtlifter-cover.gif\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/shirtlifter-cover.thumbnail.gif\" \/><\/a>Congratulations to Canadian Steve MacIsaac and his comic <em>Shirtlifter,<\/em> they managed to snag a Xeric Grant! Steve is, I believe, unofficially debuting the second issue at TCAF this summer, and I rather liked the first issue. You can <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/older\/2006_11_01_archive.shtml#116356958820428243\">check out my review of the first issue here<\/a>. To find out more about Canada&#8217;s Steve MacIsaac (and read a bunch of his comics for free), check out his website at <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stevemacisaac.com\/\">http:\/\/www.stevemacisaac.com\/<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the Xeric Nominees for this year have been covered quite nicely by <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/pwbeat.publishersweekly.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/08\/spring-2007-xeric-grant-winners-announced\/\">Heidi MacDonald at The Publishers Weekly Blog<\/a><\/strong>. Congrats to all of them too, but someone&#8217;s gotta give props to the Queer Canadian artists. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Christopher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Canadian Steve MacIsaac and his comic Shirtlifter, they managed to snag a Xeric Grant! Steve is, I believe, unofficially debuting the second issue at TCAF this summer, and I rather liked the first issue. You can check out my review of the first issue here. To find out more about Canada&#8217;s Steve MacIsaac &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=207\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Canadian Steve MacIsaac gets a Xeric Grant&#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":[20,8,1,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian-cartooning","category-culture","category-general","category-queer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","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=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}