{"id":532,"date":"2007-09-12T22:36:46","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T02:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/2007\/09\/12\/sidetracked-2-jeff-yang-on-tekkon-kinkreet\/"},"modified":"2008-07-08T04:42:43","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T08:42:43","slug":"sidetracked-2-jeff-yang-on-tekkon-kinkreet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=532","title":{"rendered":"Sidetracked 2: Jeff Yang on TEKKON KINKREET"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Black and White Movie - Tekkon Concrete\" id=\"image147\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/matsumoto2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Tekkon Kinkreet All In One Edition\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/tekkon-front-570.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Tekkon Kinkreet All In One Edition\" id=\"image300\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/tekkon-front-570.jpg\" \/><\/a>Over at SFGate.com (the online home of the San Francisco Chronicle), columnist Jeff Yang <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/g\/a\/2007\/09\/12\/apop.DTL\">compares and contrasts the new graphic novel collection of Taiyo Matsumoto&#8217;s TEKKON KINKREET<\/a> with&#8230; a Disney Cruise Lines vacation. It&#8217;s the first major press I&#8217;ve seen for the graphic novel, and while I&#8217;m tempted just to circulate a link for every single review or mention of the book, I probably won&#8217;t be doing that (I am still in Japan after all). I did want to point this column out because it&#8217;s great though, getting to one of the essential themes of the book and really laying it out in a smart, accessible way (and it&#8217;s incredibly positive too&#8230;). Apparently the book actually shipped to comic stores today (yesterday?) so I hope you&#8217;ve all already picked up your copy and are working your way through it&#8230; I also hope that after this column, the fine retailers in San Francisco feel as though they&#8217;d ordered enough copies :).<\/p>\n<p>Go check out the article and lemmie know whatcha think.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Christopher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at SFGate.com (the online home of the San Francisco Chronicle), columnist Jeff Yang compares and contrasts the new graphic novel collection of Taiyo Matsumoto&#8217;s TEKKON KINKREET with&#8230; a Disney Cruise Lines vacation. It&#8217;s the first major press I&#8217;ve seen for the graphic novel, and while I&#8217;m tempted just to circulate a link for every &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=532\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sidetracked 2: Jeff Yang on TEKKON KINKREET&#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":[1,7,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-manga","category-taiyo-matsumoto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","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=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}