{"id":410,"date":"2007-07-19T10:59:57","date_gmt":"2007-07-19T18:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/?p=410"},"modified":"2008-01-28T10:40:49","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T18:40:49","slug":"150-greatest-cartoonist-countdown-123-frederick-opper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/19\/150-greatest-cartoonist-countdown-123-frederick-opper\/","title":{"rendered":"150 Greatest Cartoonist Countdown: #123 Frederick Opper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/?page_id=638\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stwallskull.com\/blog\/images\/150cartoonists\/150cartoonists.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/?cat=39\"><strong>#123 Frederick Opper<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/?cat=39\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stwallskull.com\/blog\/images\/crumbling_paper\/thumb_crumblingpaper_happyhooligan15.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Frederick Opper&#8217;s strips are probably the closest thing to slapstick on a comics page I&#8217;ve seen&#8230; the humor is usually physical, which often seems odd on a static comics page. For some reason, it works for Opper. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/?cat=39\">If you&#8217;ve been following this blog, you&#8217;ve had the chance to read a lot of Opper lately.<\/a> If you&#8217;ve been enjoying them, you&#8217;ll want to watch for <em>The Comics Journal<\/em> #284 which will have a feature on Opper. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcj.com\/journalista\/?p=387\">Dirk Deppey on <em>\u00c2\u00a1Journalista!<\/em> recently noted<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe Comics Journal #284, currently at the printer, will contain a generous selection from such Opper strips as Happy Hooligan, Alphonse and Gaston, and the aforementioned Maud, as well as a lengthy and informative essay on the pioneering cartoonist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s career by Jared Gardner.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coconino-world.com\/sites_auteurs\/opper\/index.html\">Here are some other Opper strips from Coconino Classics.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnaclepress.com\/comics\/archives\/various_artists\/f_opper\/index.html\">Here are some other Opper strips at Barnacle Press.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lambiek.net\/artists\/o\/opper.htm\">Click here to read the lambiek.net entry on Frederick Opper.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#123 Frederick Opper Frederick Opper&#8217;s strips are probably the closest thing to slapstick on a comics page I&#8217;ve seen&#8230; the humor is usually physical, which often seems odd on a static comics page. For some reason, it works for Opper. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/19\/150-greatest-cartoonist-countdown-123-frederick-opper\/\">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":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,18,39,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-150-greatest-cartoonists-countdown","category-cartoonists","category-frederick-opper","category-ye-olde-comics-and-stuffe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZfX-6C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}