{"id":633,"date":"2008-05-25T13:34:07","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T20:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=633"},"modified":"2008-05-25T13:34:07","modified_gmt":"2008-05-25T20:34:07","slug":"craig-thompsons-chicken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=633","title":{"rendered":"Craig Thompson’s Chicken"},"content":{"rendered":"

Craig Thompson has posted samples of a pre-Chunky Rice artwork and talks about his projects that never made it. It’s a story about Elliot Chicken.<\/p>\n

Craig writes:<\/p>\n

My advice to young cartoonists is that the biggest and most important challenge is simply seeing a project to completion. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d draw ten pages of a story, get bored or distracted, then dump \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcem in the drainage ditch, leaving a wake of unfinished books \u00e2\u20ac\u201d until finally sticking with CHUNKY RICE. Below is one of my little rejected children – Elliot Chicken – and two projects left in purgatory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Check it out<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Craig Thompson has posted samples of a pre-Chunky Rice artwork and talks about his projects that never made it. It’s a story about Elliot Chicken. Craig writes: My advice to young cartoonists is that the biggest and most important challenge is simply seeing a project to completion. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d draw ten pages of a story, get … Continue reading Craig Thompson’s Chicken<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"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":"","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":[45],"tags":[102,71,101],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artists","tag-chicken","tag-comic","tag-craig-thompson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd8gD-ad","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}