{"id":282,"date":"2007-06-08T10:40:49","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T14:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/08\/off-to-oly-fest\/"},"modified":"2007-06-08T11:12:38","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T15:12:38","slug":"off-to-oly-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/08\/off-to-oly-fest\/","title":{"rendered":"Off to Oly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.olympiacomicsfestival.org\/\">Olympia Comics Festival<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantagraphics.com\/artist\/brunetti\/brunetti.html\">Ivan Brunetti<\/a> and I are the &#8220;guests of honor&#8221;.  The organizers are paying my way down there and putting me up, which is like, so cool. I even have my own personal assistant, charged with showing me around and keeping me entertained. (The imagination boggles&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the t-shirt I designed for one of the sponsors, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dangerroomcomics.com\/\">Danger Room Comics<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image283\" alt=\"dangerrmteeblacklorez.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/dangerrmteeblacklorez.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The design was originally supposed to feature the graphic below, but it was deemed not family-friendly enough (too bad!):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image284\" alt=\"dangerrmteejanetlorez.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/dangerrmteejanetlorez.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tonight I&#8217;ll visit a comics class at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evergreen.edu\/home.php\">Evergreen State College<\/a> (famous for alums Matt Groening, Charles Burns, and Lynda Barry), tomorrow there are all sorts of panels and signings, I&#8217;ll do my I Love Led Zeppelin show, and the night ends with a party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend is the Olympia Comics Festival, and Ivan Brunetti and I are the &#8220;guests of honor&#8221;. The organizers are paying my way down there and putting me up, which is like, so cool. I even have my own personal assistant, charged with showing me around and keeping me entertained. (The imagination boggles&#8230;) Here&#8217;s the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/08\/off-to-oly-fest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Off to Oly&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}