{"id":22,"date":"2008-02-11T14:54:23","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T21:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secretacres.com\/blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2008-02-11T14:54:23","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T21:54:23","slug":"14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/secretacres.com\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Edie Fake Joins the Fold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IF no news is good news, we apologize for ending our very long silence. However, we are back with some unquestionably great news for two of Secret Acres\u2019 own: <a class=\"style1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.secretacres.com\/joseph.html\" target=\"_self\">Joe Lambert&#8217;s<\/a> &#8220;Turtle Keep It Steady&#8221; has been selected by the honorable Lynda Barry for inclusion in <em>Best New American Comics 2008<\/em>, due this fall from the Houghton Mifflin Company. <a class=\"style1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.secretacres.com\/melanie.html\" target=\"_self\">Minty Lewis&#8217;s<\/a> &#8220;Just This Side of Heaven&#8221; will appear in the upcoming issue of <em><a class=\"style1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.webdelsol.com\/bwr\/current.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Black Warrior Review<\/a><\/em>. Congratulations to both Joe and Minty; thanks for still talking to us. All you visitors can, of course, purchase either (or even both!) of these mini-comics at the <a class=\"style1\" href=\"\/store\" target=\"_blank\">Emporium<\/a>, so you can talk about how way ahead of Lynda Barry you are. Speaking of people getting ahead, a collection of early comics by our man, and yours, <a class=\"style1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.secretacres.com\/ken.html\" target=\"_self\">Ken Dahl<\/a> is forthcoming from the good folks at <a class=\"style1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/title\/2306\/\" target=\"_blank\">Microcosm Publishing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textArtist\">Before you start wondering if every other publisher on earth will get to our artists before we do, <em>Fatal Faux-Pas<\/em> and <em>Wormdye<\/em> are actually in production and we will have advance copies waiting for you in four short months at <a class=\"style1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moccany.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoCCA<\/a> (see a preliminary exhibitor list <a class=\"style1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moccany.org\/artfest-exhibitors-08.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>). We&#8217;re hoping to announce a release party just as soon as we get the details together. Besides, you won\u2019t want to miss<a class=\"style1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6kEncZHrqFI\" target=\"_blank\"> this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textArtist\">And finally, we are happy to announce that Secret Acres is now officially planning to release a collection of comics from Edie Fake. When we get a chance, we&#8217;ll add an artist page for <a class=\"style1\" href=\"http:\/\/ediefake.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Edie<\/a> and get some of his comics in the Emporium for you to buy so you can see what all of the fuss is about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textArtist\">We hope you&#8217;re staying warm this winter and reading loads of comics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textArtist\">Leon &amp; Barry<\/p>\n<p class=\"textArtist\">P.S. All you people sending us your submissions, we are on it. Really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IF no news is good news, we apologize for ending our very long silence. However, we are back with some unquestionably great news for two of Secret Acres\u2019 own: Joe Lambert&#8217;s &#8220;Turtle Keep It Steady&#8221; has been selected by the honorable Lynda Barry for inclusion in Best New American Comics 2008, due this fall from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/secretacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/secretacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/secretacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/secretacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/secretacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/secretacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/secretacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/secretacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/secretacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}