{"id":317,"date":"2008-06-28T16:14:46","date_gmt":"2008-06-28T16:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/?p=317"},"modified":"2020-05-07T13:34:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T17:34:21","slug":"legalize-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/2008\/06\/28\/legalize-books\/","title":{"rendered":"LEGALIZE BOOKS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A new cartoon is posted daily on the site Toothpaste for Dinner,<\/a> a webcomic created by Drew. Each comic is a micro-view inside a tiny surreal world where anything can happen. Using basic stick figures, and a wobbly caffeine inspired line, the artist is able to write convincing social satires with dead-pan humor. I found the above comic in a recent Publisher’s Weekly blog, and since then have been hooked on these utterly sincere, bleak and desperate cave drawings. Drew has done over 2,000 strips; a comic-per-day since 2002, with his partner Natalie Dee they toil endlessly in the salt mines of the humor world selling t-shirts for chuckles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new cartoon is posted daily on the site Toothpaste for Dinner, a webcomic created by Drew. Each comic is a micro-view inside a tiny surreal world where anything can happen. Using basic stick figures, and a wobbly caffeine inspired line, the artist is able to write convincing social satires with dead-pan humor. I found […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}