{"id":3005,"date":"2012-03-21T11:22:09","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T19:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/?p=3005"},"modified":"2012-03-21T11:22:09","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T19:22:09","slug":"wednesday-sindiecate-elfquest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/?p=3005","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Sindiecate: ElfQuest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.colleencoover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/elfquest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-3006\" title=\"elfquest\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.colleencoover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/elfquest.jpg?resize=431%2C420\" alt=\"\" width=\"431\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.colleencoover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/elfquest.jpg?w=616&amp;ssl=1 616w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.colleencoover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/elfquest.jpg?resize=150%2C146&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.colleencoover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/elfquest.jpg?resize=300%2C292&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>This week on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesindiecate.com\/\">Sindiecate<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elfquest.com\/about\/Bios.html\">Richard and Wendy Pini<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <strong>ElfQuest<\/strong> is pretty much without question the comic that put me firmly on the road to becoming a professional comic artist, though there was no way for me to know it at the time. It was the first independent comic I followed with any regularity, and it introduced me to the aesthetic of Japanese comics more than a decade before I ever heard the word <em>manga<\/em>. <strong>ElfQuest<\/strong> was an original, fully realized fantasy. Wendy Pini\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s art had clear storytelling and great acting, which informs my own work today. And it was girly as hell; pretty, sexy, and romantic (looking back now, awfully <em>slash<\/em>y, too). I owe a profound debt of gratitude to the Pinis for helping to pave the path my life has taken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week on the Sindiecate: Richard and Wendy Pini\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ElfQuest is pretty much without question the comic that put me firmly on the road to becoming a professional comic artist, though there was no way for me to know it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/?p=3005\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,20],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p25PVe-Mt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3005"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3011,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005\/revisions\/3011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}