{"id":2498,"date":"2023-03-01T19:01:22","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T00:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=2498"},"modified":"2023-03-03T07:05:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T12:05:17","slug":"its-like-eating-dessert-all-the-time-becky-cloonans-comic-book-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=2498","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It&#8217;s like eating dessert all the time:&#8221; Becky Cloonan&#8217;s comic book writing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/BeckyCloonan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/BeckyCloonan.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/BeckyCloonan.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/BeckyCloonan-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Author Becky Cloonan at GalaxyCon 2023 (Credit: Doug Dangler)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I met <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/beckycloonan\" title=\"\">Becky Cloonan<\/a> at the 2022 Columbus Galaxy Con, where we discussed her comic book writing, the influence of comics on the movies made from them, and the sweet freedom that comes from self publishing. Listen in to find out why she loves comics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>I don&#8217;t think comics necessarily are influenced by [comic book-based] movies. I think it&#8217;s the other way around, and I think it should always be that way.<\/p><cite>Becky Cloonan<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/CRaft-2023_3-1-Cloonan.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met Becky Cloonan at the 2022 Columbus Galaxy Con, where we discussed her comic book writing, the influence of comics on the movies made from them, and the sweet freedom that comes from self publishing. Listen in to find &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=2498\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-craft-productions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2498"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2505,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions\/2505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}