{"id":849,"date":"2021-11-11T16:30:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T16:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sassysparky.com\/?p=849"},"modified":"2021-11-11T16:30:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T16:30:25","slug":"the-world-today-the-next-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sassysparky.com\/?p=849","title":{"rendered":"The World Today (The Next Day)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Briefly, I thought about deleting the post from yesterday. \u00a0This morning, however&#8230; I think it&#8217;s important to leave it. \u00a0Most every artist and human being will experience times when he or she feels as if a hopeless struggle is being waged. \u00a0My grandmother was a nurse for Ed Dodd, creator and cartoonist of the <em>Mark Trail<\/em> newspaper strip. \u00a0He faced rejection after rejection. \u00a0She informed me on several occasions that he came very close to throwing the strip into the trash. \u00a0It&#8217;s beyond difficult to convince a stranger to care enough to publish your work. \u00a0The bottom line is that I&#8217;ve written and illustrated work of merit, a 160 page graphic novel, which is very close to my heart. \u00a0I believe strongly in it. \u00a0There is no doubt that it will be published someway, somehow. \u00a0 Conversely, it&#8217;s an understatement to say that the publishing industry is in a state. \u00a0Is Barnes and Noble about to go out of business? \u00a0What does it say about the state of the publishing industry to note that a founder of the Savannah College of Art &amp; Design&#8217;s sequential department is having to do a Kickstarter to fund his book? \u00a0What does it say when Noelle Stevenson, show-runner for a popular animated series like <em>She-Ra and the Princesses of Power<\/em>, has to seek out alternative means of funding her publications? \u00a0It doesn&#8217;t say good things, me thinks&#8230; regardless, it&#8217;s important to document my thoughts here on my blog and share the process&#8230; a process that will include highs and lows. \u00a0With yesterday being a low, let&#8217;s make today a high&#8230; \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Briefly, I thought about deleting the post from yesterday. \u00a0This morning, however&#8230; I think it&#8217;s important to leave it. \u00a0Most every artist and human being will experience times when he or she feels as if a hopeless struggle is being waged. \u00a0My grandmother was a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sassysparky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sassysparky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sassysparky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sassysparky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sassysparky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sassysparky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":850,"href":"http:\/\/sassysparky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sassysparky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sassysparky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sassysparky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}