{"id":555,"date":"2007-06-26T15:39:05","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T15:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=555"},"modified":"2007-06-26T15:43:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-26T15:43:00","slug":"the-god-interviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/06\/26\/the-god-interviews\/","title":{"rendered":"The God Interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/godint.jpg\" alt=\"The God Interviews\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Natalie d&#8217;Arbeloff<\/strong> (NdA Press)<br \/>\nISBN 978-0-9064-8713-6<\/p>\n<p>Natalie d&#8217;Arbeloff is an artist, printmaker and author who creates comic strips on her blog featuring, I&#8217;m assuming, her semi-autobiographical character Blaugustine. In this book she has a series of chats with God \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a friendly, mild-mannered, clean-shaven chap \u00e2\u20ac\u201c about the kind of things that you would \u00e2\u20ac\u201c if you&#8217;d been granted an interview. You know\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 &#8216;What&#8217;s it all about? Why does bad stuff happen? Are you really there?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>This gently philosophical \u00e2\u20ac\u201c rather than theosophical \u00e2\u20ac\u201c examination is whimsical and introspective, but never ponderous, delivered in a big, simple cartoon style and vivid, eye-catching colour, reminiscent of the Beatles&#8217; <strong>Yellow Submarine<\/strong> film. With an easy humour that would be appreciated by older children of all ages with the same questions.<\/p>\n<p>There aren&#8217;t really any big new answers but to paraphrase Bob Dylan it&#8217;s not really about answers, but how we seek them, right?<\/p>\n<p>See also <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliedarbeloff.com\">www.nataliedarbeloff.com<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliedabeloff.com\/blaugustine.html\">www.nataliedabeloff.com\/blaugustine.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 2006 Natalie d&#8217;Arbeloff. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 By Natalie d&#8217;Arbeloff (NdA Press) ISBN 978-0-9064-8713-6 Natalie d&#8217;Arbeloff is an artist, printmaker and author who creates comic strips on her blog featuring, I&#8217;m assuming, her semi-autobiographical character Blaugustine. In this book she has a series of chats with God \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a friendly, mild-mannered, clean-shaven chap \u00e2\u20ac\u201c about the kind of things that you &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/06\/26\/the-god-interviews\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The God Interviews&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-novels"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-8X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}