{"id":32854,"date":"2019-10-18T05:49:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T02:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=32854"},"modified":"2019-10-18T05:49:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T02:49:09","slug":"swamp-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/10\/18\/swamp-monsters\/","title":{"rendered":"Swamp Monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One I missed, back when it appeared in spring 2019.  <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2AZFBUz\">Swamp Monsters<\/a><\/em> is a 144-page survey of swamp monsters in American comics, from the days before the Comics Code. With a 15-page introduction and survey. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/swampmon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/swampmon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"430\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32856\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related is a forthcoming December 2019 book on what grew out of such schlock&#8230; <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/31p91qb\">Monstrous Imaginaries: the legacy of Romanticism in the comics<\/a><\/em>.  This will look at&#8230; &#8220;Enki Bilal&#8217;s <em>Monstre<\/em> tetralogy, Jim O&#8217;Barr&#8217;s <em>The Crow<\/em>, and Emil Ferris&#8217;s <em>My Favorite Thing Is Monsters<\/em> &#8230; Alan Moore&#8217;s <em>Swamp Thing<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One I missed, back when it appeared in spring 2019. Swamp Monsters is a 144-page survey of swamp monsters in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/10\/18\/swamp-monsters\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[18,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}