{"id":1369,"date":"2007-03-03T18:19:02","date_gmt":"2007-03-03T23:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/major-burns\/"},"modified":"2007-03-03T18:19:02","modified_gmt":"2007-03-03T23:19:02","slug":"major-burns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/major-burns","title":{"rendered":"Major, Burns!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charles Burns, one of the finest cartoonists currently practicing the craft, recently released a book of “paired photographs” called One Eye<\/a>. Chris Ware, another of the finest cartoonists around, wrote about Burns and the photos<\/a> at Virginia Quarterly Review. Some of the photos are in the article, and they’re gorgeous, so check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charles Burns, one of the finest cartoonists currently practicing the craft, recently released a book of “paired photographs” called One Eye. Chris Ware, another of the finest cartoonists around, wrote about Burns and the photos at Virginia Quarterly Review. Some of the photos are in the article, and they’re gorgeous, so check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-m5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7369,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-the-least-insane-of-cartoonists","url_meta":{"origin":1369,"position":0},"title":"Podcast: The Least Insane of Cartoonists","author":"Gil","date":"October 12, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Virtual Memories \u2013 season 3 episode 22 - Pete Bagge: The Least Insane of Cartoonists \"I was asking not to be taken seriously, but I was also getting annoyed that I wasn't being taken seriously.\" Peter Bagge, the comics legend behind Hate!, Neat Stuff, Apocalypse Nerd and Everybody is Stupid\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/art"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/9766289022_d567ff97ed_o.jpg?fit=1200%2C1001&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/9766289022_d567ff97ed_o.jpg?fit=1200%2C1001&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/9766289022_d567ff97ed_o.jpg?fit=1200%2C1001&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/9766289022_d567ff97ed_o.jpg?fit=1200%2C1001&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/9766289022_d567ff97ed_o.jpg?fit=1200%2C1001&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1043,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/between-the-lines","url_meta":{"origin":1369,"position":1},"title":"Between the lines","author":"Gil","date":"July 21, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"In case you're sitting around bored this weekend, here's an interview with a book designer who isn't Chip Kidd. 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