{"id":619,"date":"2006-09-07T07:32:05","date_gmt":"2006-09-07T12:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=619"},"modified":"2008-04-15T17:59:54","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T22:59:54","slug":"my-new-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=619","title":{"rendered":"My new toy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycomicbookcreator.com\">Comic Book Creator<\/a> is a lot of fun.  In fact, it&#8217;s responsible for the total lack of posting here on Monday.  It&#8217;s a handy tool for making making comic pages, arranging images, adding text bubbles, and so on.  <\/p>\n<p>Back when I was writing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/lemon\/issues\/index.php?030820\">The Lemon<\/a> I found that making comics was my favorite part of the site.  At the bottom of this post is a comic I did back in 2003.  I had a blast with it, but making comics using Paint Shop or Photoshop is a major pain in the butt. The comic below took me the better part of a day to put together.  I think it would be a one or two hour job using CBC.  <\/p>\n<p>I enjoy making these little comics, although my desire to make them exceeds my ability to fill them with interesting content. <\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, the comic is huge so I&#8217;m not going to put it on the front page.  Read on to see the whole thing: <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><table   class=\"\" cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/comic_news.jpg' class='insetimage'   alt='The Lemon, James Lileks, Bush, Crocodile, Glen Reynolds, Bill Whittle' title='The Lemon, James Lileks, Bush, Crocodile, Glen Reynolds, Bill Whittle'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table> <\/p>\n<p>Three years later this thing looks pretty dated, news-wise.  Still, a few of the ideas are still relevant. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comic Book Creator is a lot of fun. In fact, it&#8217;s responsible for the total lack of posting here on Monday. It&#8217;s a handy tool for making making comic pages, arranging images, adding text bubbles, and so on. Back when I was writing The Lemon I found that making comics was my favorite part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[79],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nerd-culture","tag-comic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}