{"id":212,"date":"2004-04-05T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2004-04-05T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=212"},"modified":"2005-12-06T15:39:21","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T20:39:21","slug":"clyde-never-could-catch-up-to-the-fastball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/clyde-never-could-catch-up-to-the-fastball","title":{"rendered":"Clyde never could catch up to the fastball"},"content":{"rendered":"

“A compelling look at the lives of two electric fan salesmen”<\/a>? And I thought I<\/em> wrote bad sales copy!<\/p>\n

That said, Seth is one of the better cartoonists working nowadays, so Clyde Fans<\/a> is probably a pretty good collection of his recent serial. I quit reading it after an issue or two, figuring I’d wait till the collection.<\/p>\n

I don’t know anything about this book<\/a>, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“A compelling look at the lives of two electric fan salesmen”? And I thought I wrote bad sales copy! That said, Seth is one of the better cartoonists working nowadays, so Clyde Fans is probably a pretty good collection of his recent serial. I quit reading it after an issue or two, figuring I’d wait … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Clyde never could catch up to the fastball”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-3q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5049,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-feb-26-2010","url_meta":{"origin":212,"position":0},"title":"Unrequired Reading: Feb. 26, 2010","author":"Gil","date":"February 26, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"It's a snowbound dose of Unrequired Reading! 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Only project. * * * These Amazon reviews of $6,800 stereo cables aren't quite\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "basketball"","block_context":{"text":"basketball","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sports\/basketball"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12266,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-320-seth","url_meta":{"origin":212,"position":3},"title":"Episode 320 – Seth","author":"Gil","date":"May 14, 2019","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 320: Seth \"The drawing of the comic is where everything is discovered.\" After more than 20 years, Seth has completed Clyde Fans, his grand meditation on family, business, and art (Drawn & Quarterly), so let's celebrate with a double-episode! 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