{"id":171,"date":"2003-12-31T15:05:55","date_gmt":"2003-12-31T20:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/03\/usual-gang-idiots\/"},"modified":"2009-04-04T00:35:37","modified_gmt":"2009-04-04T05:35:37","slug":"usual-gang-idiots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/31\/usual-gang-idiots\/","title":{"rendered":"The Usual Gang of Idiots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among the books I received as presents this Christmas: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infinityplus.co.uk\/nonfiction\/madart.htm\"><I>Mad Art<\/I><\/a>, a whirlwind tour of most of the artists who&#8217;ve drawn for <I>Mad<\/I> at one point or another over the years. Now, I haven&#8217;t actually <b>read<\/B> an issue of the magazine since junior high, so I had no idea, for example, that Drew Friedman and Sherry Flenniken had been drawing for the magazine&#8230;or that, if the samples of recent artwork are to be believed, the target audience <I>may<\/I> have shifted up by about 5-10 years. I actually remember a lot of stuff they show from the late 1970s and early &#8217;80s, though I didn&#8217;t know from Mort Drucker and Jack Davis back then.<\/p>\n<p>My only complaints?  I wouldn&#8217;t have minded seeing more of the classic stuff, especially more Dave Berg, and in many cases I wouldn&#8217;t mind bigger reproductions. But otherwise I think the book&#8217;s just swell. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/0823030806\">Go buy it already<\/A>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the books I received as presents this Christmas: Mad Art, a whirlwind tour of most of the artists who&#8217;ve drawn for Mad at one point or another over the years. Now, I haven&#8217;t actually read an issue of the magazine since junior high, so I had no idea, for example, that Drew Friedman and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}