{"id":154,"date":"2006-05-06T19:31:53","date_gmt":"2006-05-06T23:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/hgr\/?p=154"},"modified":"2006-05-06T19:31:53","modified_gmt":"2006-05-06T23:31:53","slug":"apatoons-is-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/06\/apatoons-is-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Apatoons is 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<table Align=left>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"issue140-small.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/blog\/archives\/issue140-small.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"194\" \/>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>It&#8217;s startling just to think about it, but <em>Apatoons <\/em>is celebrating its 25th anniversary with its new issue, #140. With a circulation of about 30, it has one of the smallest readships of any publication on animation&#8211;yet it&#8217;s also the longest running, most distinguished discussion about the art form that ever existed.<\/p>\n<p>As an example of the venerable type of publishing collaborative known as an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amateur_Press_Association\">amateur press assocation<\/a>, <em>Apatoons <\/em>should be an anachronism in the Internet age. Yet it&#8217;s alive and kicking, and the best stuff in it is as worthwhile as anything you&#8217;ll find on the Web&#8211;maybe more so. The permanence and privacy of the apa&#8217;s paper format and small membership have made it special since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toonopedia.com\">Don Markstein<\/a> and GiGi Dane founded it in 1981. (I should know: I&#8217;ve been a member since issue #5. That makes me a oldtimer, but I&#8217;m not the longest-serving member&#8211;Apatooners tend to hang around.)<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apatoons.com\">Apatoons Web site <\/a>has more information on this unique and indispensable organization; head there to learn more, including how to join. (As I write, there are three slots open for new members.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s startling just to think about it, but Apatoons is celebrating its 25th anniversary with its new issue, #140. With a circulation of about 30, it has one of the smallest readships of any publication on animation&#8211;yet it&#8217;s also the longest running, most distinguished discussion about the art form that ever existed. As an example &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/06\/apatoons-is-25\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Apatoons is 25&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}