{"id":105948,"date":"2016-12-23T09:30:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T14:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=105948"},"modified":"2017-01-04T12:09:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T17:09:42","slug":"sticks-angelica-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/23\/sticks-angelica-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"A Very Sticks Angelica Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/sticks_header-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106138\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/sticks_header-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"778\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/sticks_header-2.jpg 778w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/sticks_header-2-300x174.jpg 300w, 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https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/sticksxmas4_panel7-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/sticksxmas4_panel8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105957\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/sticksxmas4_panel8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/sticksxmas4_panel8.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/sticksxmas4_panel8-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/sticksxmas4_panel8-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/sticksxmas4_panel8-768x768.jpg 768w, 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His illustrations have been published in the <\/em>New York Times<em> and <\/em>Bloomberg View<em>; his comics have appeared in the <\/em>Believer<em>, <\/em>Maisonneuve<em>, and the <\/em>Adventure Time<em> comic-book series. This story is excerpted from his book <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drawnandquarterly.com\/sticks-angelica-folk-hero\" target=\"_blank\">Sticks Angelica: Folk Hero<\/a><em>, forthcoming in March from Drawn &amp; Quarterly.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I invited Ryan Carbon to my birthday party. I wasn\u2019t friends with Ryan. 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