{"id":587,"date":"2008-04-14T09:07:23","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T15:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdflood.wordpress.com\/?p=587"},"modified":"2008-04-14T09:07:23","modified_gmt":"2008-04-14T15:07:23","slug":"barry-smith-brings-back-inktank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/barry-smith-brings-back-inktank\/","title":{"rendered":"Barry Smith brings back InkTank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I missed the news when it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inktank.com\/2008\/03\/inktankcom-is-open-for-business.cfm\">first announced<\/a>, but caught it on <a href=\"http:\/\/comixtalk.com\/barrys_bringing_the_angsty_back\">ComixTalk last week<\/a>: Barry Smith is sporting a return to webcomics in the form of <a href=\"http:\/\/inktank.com\">InkTank<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Back when I was <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/*\/http:\/\/drsetebos.tripod.com\">first covering webcomics back in the 1998-2002 timeframe<\/a>, I was good friends with a number of cartoonists that have since fallen off the public radar and moved into different areas. Barry Smith was one such cartoonist. I was always a big fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/inktank.com\/archives\/AT\/index.cfm?nav=1\">Angst Technology<\/a> (my online persona &#8220;Doctor Setebos&#8221; even had a brief cameo in the fifth panel of <a href=\"http:\/\/inktank.com\/archives\/AT\/index.cfm?nav=65\">this Halloween comic<\/a>). Seeing Barry return to doing webcomics is a bit of a blast from the past for me (and a tiny reminder of how old I am), but it is definitely a welcome blast, if there can be such a thing.<\/p>\n<p>Barry says that his new InkTank comic is going to be slightly auto-biographical. A nice movement for him. I&#8217;m eager to see how it turns out. Great to have you back, Barry!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I missed the news when it was first announced, but caught it on ComixTalk last week: Barry Smith is sporting a return to webcomics in the form of InkTank. Back when I was first covering webcomics back in the 1998-2002 timeframe, I was good friends with a number of cartoonists that have since fallen off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[351],"tags":[558,559,345],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","tag-barry-smith","tag-inktank","tag-webcomics-i-read","last-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}