{"id":420,"date":"2008-08-11T23:16:39","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T06:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=420"},"modified":"2008-08-11T23:16:39","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T06:16:39","slug":"that-racer-x-illustrated-piece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/that-racer-x-illustrated-piece\/","title":{"rendered":"That Racer X Illustrated piece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;ve got my hands on the Peanuts-covered issue of <strong>Racer X Illustrated <\/strong>which I <a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=418\">mentioned earlier<\/a>. It&#8217;s apparently not on the stands quite yet &#8212; I checked my local Borders yesterday, and they still had copies of the previous issue out (which means that the next issue should be findable when it arrives) &#8212; but, well, there are occasional perks to being the AAUGH.com guy.<\/p>\n<p>The article behind the illustration is by Sparky&#8217;s son Craig, talking about how he got into motocross, and how his presence there brought about a week of strips and a TV special built around the sport. The Peanuts coverage piece gets seven pages (including reprinting all five of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racerxill.com\/articles\/detail\/3590\/your-collection.aspx\">the Joe Motocross strips<\/a>) plus a one-page sidebar on other motocrossing cartoon characters, a two-thirds page piece toward the front talking about the cover, and even a one-page ad for downloading <em>You&#8217;re A Good Sport, Charlie Brown<\/em> through Amazon Unbox video downloads&#8230; even though <em>You&#8217;re A Good Sport <\/em>doesn&#8217;t appear to be actually available there yet.<\/p>\n<p>I have a liking for this sort of piece, ones which aren&#8217;t general Peanuts articles in general magazines, but which show how the strip connects to some specific audience. If it&#8217;s more about Craig than it is about Peanuts, that&#8217;s fine, because it clearly shows how that informed what Peanuts did, and gives just that much more insight on how Sparky gets his ideas. This isn&#8217;t a must-own, but if the concept intrigues you, seek it out. The issue is $4.99.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;ve got my hands on the Peanuts-covered issue of Racer X Illustrated which I mentioned earlier. It&#8217;s apparently not on the stands quite yet &#8212; I checked my local Borders yesterday, and they still had copies of the previous issue out (which means that the next issue should be &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-upcoming-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}