{"id":695,"date":"2017-08-24T14:24:32","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T19:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/?p=695"},"modified":"2017-08-24T14:24:32","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T19:24:32","slug":"comics-for-a-strange-world-by-reza-farazmand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/comics-for-a-strange-world-by-reza-farazmand\/","title":{"rendered":"Comics For a Strange World by Reza Farazmand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-699 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/comics-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/comics-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/comics-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/comics.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With sparseness and simplicity, Comics For A Strange World, reminds us of the beautiful absurdity in being alive. Whether the narrator is a smoking ghost, a caveman or a pigeon, Farazmand uses blunt honesty to delve into both common situations and bizarre adventures .<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The comics first generated a huge following on the internet and since then he has been able to turn his ideas into two books: the first, Poorly Drawn Lines was a NYT bestseller. Leaving very few topics untouched, he slyly comments on our internet obsessed culture (the pigeon goes online), our escalating culture of violence (a squirrel buys a gun) and religion (God gets called out for being an old man in a bathrobe).<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; For fans of The Far Side, Sara Scribbles or Hyperbole and a Half, this book is not to be missed. Matthew Inman (best selling author of The Oatmeal) says it best when he describes Farazmand\u2019s work as &#8220;Walk(ing) the line between deeply poignant and laugh-out-loud funny.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With sparseness and simplicity, Comics For A Strange World, reminds us of the beautiful absurdity in being alive. Whether the narrator is a smoking ghost, a caveman or a pigeon, Farazmand uses blunt honesty to delve into both common &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/comics-for-a-strange-world-by-reza-farazmand\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}