{"id":2645,"date":"2010-10-18T19:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T02:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=2645"},"modified":"2010-10-18T19:58:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T02:58:00","slug":"simpsons-writer-mike-reiss-to-speak-saturday-at-the-heights-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=2645","title":{"rendered":"SIMPSONS writer MIKE REISS to speak SATURDAY at the HEIGHTS THEATRE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/bannerreiss.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2646\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/bannerreiss-300x51.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"51\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/bannerreiss-300x51.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/bannerreiss.jpg 572w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0 I can&#8217;t believe this almost snuck by us&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Saturday, October 23, 11 AM<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heightstheater.com\/directions.cfm\">Heights Theater, 3951 Central Ave NE, Columbia Heights<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Hosted by Anoka County Library and co-sponsored by Heights Theater and the Columbia Heights Library<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Known for his offbeat style and sense of humor, Mike Reiss was the head writer and producer for <em>The Simpsons<\/em> for over 20 years. Winner of four Emmys, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Animation Writers Caucus, and a Peabody Award for his work, Reiss is also an award-winning novelist, children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s author, and screenplay writer. He has published fourteen children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s books, including the popular <em>How Murray Saved Christmas<\/em> and <em>Late for School<\/em>. In addition, his caveman detective short story, &#8220;Cro-Magnon P.I.,&#8221; won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. Co-writer of <em>The Simpsons Movie<\/em> and <em>Ice Age 3<\/em>, his other credits include work on <em>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Garry Shandling\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Show<\/em>, <em>ALF<\/em>, and <em>The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson<\/em>. Reiss\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s newest book, <em>Just Too Cute! And Other Tales of Adorable Animals for Horrible Children<\/em>, will be released in September 2010. For the Club Book events, Reiss will show clips from his animated work and discuss the difference in writing for print, screen, and television.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 I can&#8217;t believe this almost snuck by us&#8230; Saturday, October 23, 11 AM Heights Theater, 3951 Central Ave NE, Columbia Heights Hosted by Anoka County Library and co-sponsored by Heights Theater and the Columbia Heights Library Known for his offbeat style and sense of humor, Mike Reiss was the head writer and producer for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=2645\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SIMPSONS writer MIKE REISS to speak SATURDAY at the HEIGHTS THEATRE!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd8gD-GF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2647,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions\/2647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}