{"id":465,"date":"2008-04-15T10:51:17","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T00:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/15\/update-the-arrival\/"},"modified":"2008-04-15T10:52:36","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T00:52:36","slug":"update-the-arrival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/15\/update-the-arrival\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: The Arrival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/the-arrival.jpg\" title=\"The Arrival cover\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/the-arrival.jpg\" alt=\"The Arrival cover\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Shaun Tan&#8217;s fantastic all-picture book (for want of a better term), <em>The Arrival<\/em>, has been nominated in three categories of the <strong>2008 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Best Graphic Album &#8212; New<br \/>\nBest U.S. Edition of International Material<br \/>\nBest Writer\/Artist<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/the-arrival2.jpg\" title=\"Arrival pic 1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/the-arrival2.jpg\" alt=\"Arrival pic 1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shaun&#8217;s book has done nothing except sell like crazy and win awards since it was published &#8212; and believe me, all the kudos are well deserved. This is a book you will come back to again and again for the rest of your life. It&#8217;s beautiful, profound  and &#8230; dare I say it? &#8230; a work of genius.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/the-arrival8.jpg\" title=\"Arrival pic 2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/the-arrival8.jpg\" alt=\"Arrival pic 2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2008 Eisner Award information via <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.newsarama.com\/showthread.php?t=153595\" target=\"_blank\">Newsarama.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previous article on the Backbrain <a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/01\/29\/big-win-for-the-arrival\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Shaun Tan website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shauntan.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shaun Tan&#8217;s fantastic all-picture book (for want of a better term), The Arrival, has been nominated in three categories of the 2008 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards: Best Graphic Album &#8212; New Best U.S. Edition of International Material Best Writer\/Artist &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/15\/update-the-arrival\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,13,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}