{"id":3043,"date":"2012-01-03T07:36:49","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T12:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/blog\/?p=3043"},"modified":"2012-01-03T07:36:49","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T12:36:49","slug":"holidaze-news-austin-scene-report-vortex-news-site-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/03\/holidaze-news-austin-scene-report-vortex-news-site-update\/","title":{"rendered":"News from the Holidaze: Austin Scene Report, VORTEX News, Site Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey y&#8217;all, welcome back from the holidaze! A few things happened while I was getting too merry that deserve their own blog posts but I&#8217;m just going to sum them all up here:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Austin Scene Report<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I wrote up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcj.com\/austin-tx-scene-report\/\">a report on Austin&#8217;s comics scene<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcj.com\/category\/columns\/riff-raff\/\">Frank Santoro&#8217;s column<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcj.com\/\">the Comics Journal site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2012-01-03_image1.jpg\" alt=\"Monster Show 6 opening\"><br \/>The opening of Monster Show 6 at Domy Austin from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/domybooks\/sets\/72157627966219881\/with\/6307075426\/\">the Monster Show 6 Flickr stream<\/a>, photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/myguerrilla\/\">Carling Hale<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apologizes to anyone that I didn&#8217;t include. Please don&#8217;t take it personally, I was trying to be concise, comprehensive, and art comics centric.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>VORTEX<\/em> News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opticalsloth.com\/?p=18873\">Whitey reviewed <em>VORTEX<\/em> on Optical Sloth on December 24th<\/a>. He proclaims the battle to be &#8220;suitably majestic&#8221; and accurately leaves the gender ambiguous.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2012-01-03_image2.jpg\" alt=\"VORTEX #1 cover\"><br \/>I snagged this from Whitey&#8217;s site because his scanner caught the weird primary color gradient that emerged from the printing process.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, orders made through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/store.php\">my online store<\/a> will now be shipped much more quickly. Thanks to everyone who ordered over the last two weeks, your orders will be shipping soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Site Update<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over the break I fiddled around with my site.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2012-01-03_image3.jpg\" alt=\"Hypercastle site\"><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I updated the header so that the banner randomly changes every time you load a page, changed the splash image to a randomly selected one-page comic, streamlined the content, and drew a new favicon. Please let me know if anything breaks on you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey y&#8217;all, welcome back from the holidaze! A few things happened while I was getting too merry that deserve their own blog posts but I&#8217;m just going to sum them all up here: Austin Scene Report I wrote up a report on Austin&#8217;s comics scene for Frank Santoro&#8217;s column on the Comics Journal site. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13],"tags":[72,122,191,482,709],"class_list":["post-3043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admin","category-print-comics","tag-austin","tag-carling-hale","tag-domy-books","tag-optical-sloth","tag-vortex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043","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=3043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}