{"id":2731,"date":"2013-01-03T10:05:30","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T10:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/03\/the_lengths\/"},"modified":"2024-11-29T15:37:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T20:37:37","slug":"the_lengths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/03\/the_lengths\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lengths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cutebutsad.bigcartel.com\/category\/the-lengths\" ><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Lengths, issue 1\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/TheLengths-1.jpg\" width=\"100%\"  vspace=\"5\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now that he has completed<\/strong> his ambitious, tricky, and emotional comic series <a href=\"http:\/\/thelengths.com\"><i>The Lengths<\/i><\/a>, I&#8217;m really pleased to see my pal <a href=\"http:\/\/howardhardiman.com\" >Howard Hardiman<\/a> get recognition for the achievement. Check out, for instance, this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/culture\/2012\/12\/comics-review-lengths-howard-hardiman\">majorly fantastic review<\/a>  from <i>The New Statesman<\/i> (an excerpt):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i>The Lengths<\/i> is an important work. It covers topics largely passed over even in prose literature, let alone the diversity-challenged world of comics. In giving a voice to the voiceless, Hardiman deserves praise &#8212; and behind the anthropology, <i>The Lengths<\/i> is a love story sweetly told.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The best way to check out the series for yourself, of course, is to support the artist and <a href=\"http:\/\/cutebutsad.bigcartel.com\/category\/the-lengths\" >buy it here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cutebutsad.bigcartel.com\/category\/the-lengths\" ><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"from The Lengths, issue 5\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/The-Lengths-0005.jpg\" width=\"100%\"  vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that he has completed his ambitious, tricky, and emotional comic series The Lengths, I&#8217;m really pleased to see my pal Howard Hardiman get recognition for the achievement. Check out, for instance, this majorly fantastic review from The New Statesman (an excerpt): The Lengths is an important work. It covers topics largely passed over even &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/03\/the_lengths\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Lengths&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracomics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70576,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2731\/revisions\/70576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}