{"id":5569,"date":"2017-01-17T09:02:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T14:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/blog\/?p=5569"},"modified":"2017-01-17T09:02:20","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T14:02:20","slug":"brackish-by-katie-mulholland-and-sarah-welch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/17\/brackish-by-katie-mulholland-and-sarah-welch\/","title":{"rendered":"Brackish by Katie Mulholland and Sarah Welch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I miss Texas. I&#8217;ve lived in the Kansas City metro area for almost two years now and I still miss Texas. Strangely I sometimes miss Houston more than Austin, even though I&#8217;ve lived in Austin for the majority of 13 years and lived in a suburb of Houston, never the city itself, before that. But growing up in that boring suburb, Houston meant culture and excitement to me as a teen. I drove down there as often as I could, hanging out in coffee shops and wandering through museums. Houston has some really great museums. I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time in front Yves Tanguy, Cy Twombly, and Philip Guston paintings. <\/p>\n<p>So when Robert Boyd mentioned this zine <em>Brackish<\/em>, a collection of great drawings by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahwelch.info\/\">Sarah Welch<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/katiemulholland.wordpress.com\/\">Katie Mulholland<\/a>, in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegreatgodpanisdead.com\/2016\/11\/zinefest.html\">write up of Houston Zine Fest 2016<\/a>, I had to get it. These atmospheric drawings of a transforming Houston make me nostalgic. Here&#8217;s one example:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2017-01-17_Brackish-Sarah-Welch.png\" alt=\"Sarah Welch drawing from Brackish\"><br \/><em>Brackish<\/em> page 28, drawing by Sarah Welch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sarah Welch&#8217;s drawing really transports me. I&#8217;ve walked down a residential street like that with the Houston skyline in the background many times. Houston is a swamp but it&#8217;s my swamp. The lack of zoning laws makes for some interesting architectural juxtapositions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I miss Texas. I&#8217;ve lived in the Kansas City metro area for almost two years now and I still miss Texas. Strangely I sometimes miss Houston more than Austin, even though I&#8217;ve lived in Austin for the majority of 13 years and lived in a suburb of Houston, never the city itself, before that. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[369,571],"class_list":["post-5569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics-criticism","tag-katie-mulholland","tag-sarah-welch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5569","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=5569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}