{"id":24009,"date":"2021-05-01T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T08:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=24009"},"modified":"2021-04-30T18:26:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T18:26:55","slug":"little-paintings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2021\/05\/01\/little-paintings\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/03BE1A83-0182-4EC5-AEB5-D38DD8473138.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"786\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24011\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/03BE1A83-0182-4EC5-AEB5-D38DD8473138.jpeg 608w, https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/03BE1A83-0182-4EC5-AEB5-D38DD8473138-150x194.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/03BE1A83-0182-4EC5-AEB5-D38DD8473138-250x323.jpeg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><br \/>\nBy <strong>James Kochalka <\/strong>(Top Shelf Productions)<br \/>\nISBN: 978-1-60309-017-9 (HB)<\/p>\n<p>James Kochalka is a prolific and always entertaining giant of comics creation, whose vast, sublimely surreal, enticing works range from kid-friendly romps such as the <strong>Glorkian Warrior<\/strong> and <strong>Johnny Boo<\/strong> series, to self-examining daily journal strip <strong>American Elf <\/strong>and the indescribably fun <strong>SuperF*ckers<\/strong> (and that&#8217;s my censorious edit there, not his\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6)<\/p>\n<p>The author, artist, animator and rock musician is utterly wedded to the energies of creativity and this tantalizing tome gathers hundreds of mini-paintings he knocked up to sell at various conventions between 2001 and 2007. All the old familiar face are there: cats, ghosts, robots, monsters, aliens, bathrooms, birds, chicks and dudes, animals, cats, mushrooms, landscapes and weather, cats, machines and random images, all apparently arranged in no particularly order and inviting your response. Did I mention, there&#8217;s cats?<\/p>\n<p>There is a narrative here, but it&#8217;s completely generated by the viewer who can&#8217;t help but create a story around the hundreds of thumbnail paintings of gloriously hued things and folks and stuff, and a lot to read in if you&#8217;re willing to take some time.<\/p>\n<p>Go on, you know you want to\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a9 James Kochalka 2011. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By James Kochalka (Top Shelf Productions) ISBN: 978-1-60309-017-9 (HB) James Kochalka is a prolific and always entertaining giant of comics creation, whose vast, sublimely surreal, enticing works range from kid-friendly romps such as the Glorkian Warrior and Johnny Boo series, to self-examining daily journal strip American Elf and the indescribably fun SuperF*ckers (and that&#8217;s my &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2021\/05\/01\/little-paintings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Little Paintings&#8221;<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[81,102,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-books","category-fantasy","category-humour"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-6ff","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}