{"id":2310,"date":"2009-03-08T12:04:54","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T17:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=2310"},"modified":"2009-03-08T12:05:43","modified_gmt":"2009-03-08T17:05:43","slug":"the-klondike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=2310","title":{"rendered":"The Klondike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/cover-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2311\" title=\"The Klondike, by Zach Worton\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/cover-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Klondike, by Zach Worton\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/cover-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/cover-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/cover-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/cover-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This Fall, my friend Zach Worton&#8217;s first professionally-published graphic novel will be making it&#8217;s way to better comic and book stores everywhere, courtesy of the fine folks at Drawn &amp; Quarterly. It&#8217;s a 300+ page monster called <em>The Klondike<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>To the right, you can see a rejected cover illustration for the book, which I rather liked thanks to its use of negative space. Apparently the final cover will be even nicer, so good on Zach (and designer Tom Devlin).<\/p>\n<p>If you want to follow more of Zach&#8217;s art, check out his blog at <a href=\"http:\/\/crosshatchballad.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Confessions Of A Cross-Hatch Junky<\/a>. If you like what&#8217;s there, I&#8217;m sure he could use a kind word or two as he tries to power through and finish the book this month.<\/p>\n<p>Also of note: I pulled this from a post he made on February 10th, which is how far behind I am in my feed-reading. It&#8217;s strange watching the book industry collapse, the fading glow of the Obama inauguration, and the build-up, hype, and scramble-to-catch-up-afterwards of the New York Comic-Con, as they all unfold in real-time a month ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Christopher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Fall, my friend Zach Worton&#8217;s first professionally-published graphic novel will be making it&#8217;s way to better comic and book stores everywhere, courtesy of the fine folks at Drawn &amp; Quarterly. It&#8217;s a 300+ page monster called The Klondike. To the right, you can see a rejected cover illustration for the book, which I rather &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=2310\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Klondike&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310","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=2310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2313,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions\/2313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}