{"id":74,"date":"2005-07-11T22:47:07","date_gmt":"2005-07-12T02:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/hgr\/?p=74"},"modified":"2005-07-11T22:47:07","modified_gmt":"2005-07-12T02:47:07","slug":"arriola-on-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/11\/arriola-on-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Arriola on the Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gus Arriola, creator of Gordo, may the the most underappreciated of comics&#8217; greatest artists&#8211;his best work is as well-designed, warm, and funny as any newspaper comics I can think of. Arriola has been retired for years now, following a long career, and I was delighted to stumble across a radio show called <em>Latino USA<\/em> yesterday, which interviewed him on the current controversy (well-covered on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartoonbrew.com\/archives\/2005_06.html#001179\">Cartoon Brew<\/a>) over Mexican postage stamps featuring a stereotyped character named Memin Pinguin.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the Arriola interview at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latinousa.org\/program\/index.html\">this page<\/a>, which also features a worthwhile segment on someone who I assume has already been honored with any number of Mexican stamps: Cantinflas.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not well-acquainted with Gordo, you need to get your hands on R.C. Harvey&#8217;s wonderful book <em>Accidental Ambassador Gordo<\/em>, available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rcharvey.com\/gordo.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gus Arriola, creator of Gordo, may the the most underappreciated of comics&#8217; greatest artists&#8211;his best work is as well-designed, warm, and funny as any newspaper comics I can think of. Arriola has been retired for years now, following a long career, and I was delighted to stumble across a radio show called Latino USA yesterday, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/11\/arriola-on-the-air\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Arriola on the Air&#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-74","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\/74","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=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}