{"id":25145,"date":"2019-10-08T13:14:38","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T18:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=25145"},"modified":"2019-10-07T09:15:10","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T14:15:10","slug":"book-report-thawed-by-gary-bedell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/08\/book-report-thawed-by-gary-bedell\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Thawed<\/i> by Gary Bedell (?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/thawed.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">This book is an ex-library book from some unstated library that I picked up <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/05\/good-book-hunting-may-5-2019-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-library-book-sale\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this spring<\/a> at the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library book sale.  I called it a comic art monograph, but it might be more akin to a self-published sketch book that I tend to avoid buying at <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/18\/good-book-hunting-saturday-august-17-2019-librarycon-2019\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">local cons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, about the artist.  He&#8217;s local, as I determine by the inclusion of posters advertising music shows in downtown Springfield.  The book include some completed comic art that has the fully realized 3D modeling that&#8217;s unlike more cartoon-centric art like <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/21\/book-report-rook-city-by-seth-wolfshorndl-and-elton-gahr-2016\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rook City<\/a><\/em> or <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/19\/book-report-duel-by-steve-wolfhorndl-and-matt-meyers\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Duel!<\/a><\/em> as well as some other art, some digitally generated, that looks like it could fit into video games.  The book also includes some sketches to show the preliminary work before the finished product.<\/p>\n<p>An interesting browse during a football game, to be sure.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book is an ex-library book from some unstated library that I picked up this spring at the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library book sale. I called it a comic art monograph, but it might be more akin to a self-published sketch book that I tend to avoid buying at local cons. So, about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25146,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25145\/revisions\/25146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}