{"id":1202,"date":"2010-01-12T07:08:55","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T12:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/blog\/?p=1202"},"modified":"2010-01-12T07:08:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T12:08:55","slug":"2009-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/12\/2009-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"2009 Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2009 was a great year here at the Hypercastle! Here&#8217;s some of the highlights:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>I self-published two minicomics:<\/li>\n<ul type=\"circle\">\n<li><i>TRANZ<\/i>, a collection of one-page shorts based around action verbs like &#8220;melt,&#8221; &#8220;grow,&#8221; &#8220;muliply,&#8221; and so on; copies available from me or at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.domystore.com\/austin\/\">Domy Books<\/a> in Austin<\/li>\n<li><i>Froghead Hangover<\/i>, a short autobiographical story about when I was living by myself in an apartment and had a run-in with a shaman; copies available from me, at Domy Books in Austin, or at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinbooks.com\/\">Austin Books<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>I had my comics in issues of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertislandbrooklyn.com\/smokesignal.html\"><i>Smoke Signal<\/i><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/taffyhips.blogspot.com\/\"><i>Taffy Hips<\/i><\/a>, and the online zine <a href=\"http:\/\/hahaclever.com\/\">hahaclever.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>I was in a few art shows, including <i>Monster Show<\/i> #4 at Domy and <i>No More Worlds<\/i> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.concertinagallery.com\/\">Concertina Gallery<\/a> in Chicago, which was <a href=\"http:\/\/chicago.timeout.com\/articles\/art-design\/81552\/the-top-art-design-shows-of-2009\/2.html\">picked<\/a> as one of the top art shows of 2009 by <i>Time Out Chicago<\/i> (congrats to all the other artists and the curators!)<\/li>\n<li>I participated in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.staple-austin.org\/\">STAPLE!<\/a> 2009 alongside the rest of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegoldcountypapermill.com\/\">Gold County Paper Mill<\/a> and in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastaustinstudiotour.com\/\">E.A.S.T.<\/a> 2009 with my lady <a href=\"http:\/\/glademade.net\/\">Glade Whitworth<\/a><\/li>\n<li>I finally finished making websites for the G.C.P.M. and Glade (linked above)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2010 is already shaping up to be a great year, here&#8217;s hoping that it&#8217;ll blow 2009 out of the water! I&#8217;ve got several projects in work with some awesome and skilled creative people that I&#8217;ll be talking about as they manifest, a half-table for the G.C.P.M. and Glademade at STAPLE! 2010, and ideas for plenty of more comics that I&#8217;ll be submitting or self-publishing. I hope that everyone out there is having a great start to the new year, thanks for reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2009 was a great year here at the Hypercastle! Here&#8217;s some of the highlights: I self-published two minicomics: TRANZ, a collection of one-page shorts based around action verbs like &#8220;melt,&#8221; &#8220;grow,&#8221; &#8220;muliply,&#8221; and so on; copies available from me or at Domy Books in Austin Froghead Hangover, a short autobiographical story about when I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[149,191,208,272,273,275,286,457,600,615,635],"class_list":["post-1202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-print-comics","category-recaps","tag-concertina-gallery","tag-domy-books","tag-east-austin-studio-tour","tag-glade-whitworth","tag-glademade","tag-gold-county-paper-mill","tag-hahaclever-com","tag-monster-show","tag-smoke-signal","tag-staple","tag-taffy-hips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}