{"id":106951,"date":"2017-01-25T10:30:45","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T15:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=106951"},"modified":"2017-01-24T15:47:05","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T20:47:05","slug":"making-comics-biography-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/25\/making-comics-biography-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Making of a Comics Biography, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/title-hr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-107031\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/title-hr-300x70.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"70\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/title-hr-300x70.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/title-hr-768x178.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/title-hr-1024x237.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><!--more--> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/paris-r-2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-106958\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/paris-r-2-1-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/paris-r-2-1-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/paris-r-2-1-768x1184.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/paris-r-2-1-664x1024.jpg 664w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/paris-r-2-1.jpg 1394w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/paris-r-2-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-106959\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/paris-r-2-2-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/paris-r-2-2-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/paris-r-2-2-768x1142.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/paris-r-2-2-689x1024.jpg 689w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/paris-r-2-2.jpg 1443w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/paris-r-2-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-106960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/paris-r-2-3-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/paris-r-2-3-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/paris-r-2-3-768x1106.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/paris-r-2-3-711x1024.jpg 711w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/paris-r-2-3.jpg 1476w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/paris-r-2-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-106961\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/paris-r-2-4-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/paris-r-2-4-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/paris-r-2-4-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/paris-r-2-4-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/paris-r-2-4.jpg 1413w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/paris-r-2-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-106962\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/paris-r-2-5-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/paris-r-2-5-202x300.jpg 202w, 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His biography\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drawnandquarterly.com\/abominable-mr-seabrook\" target=\"_blank\">The Abominable Mr. Seabrook<\/a>\u00a0<em>will be published this month.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1667],"tags":[14298,7282,26857,35,26075,199,26325,14374,131,3450,2544,15264,11140,10254,26856,670,3892,4110,8594,9978,26855,20067,9678],"class_list":["post-106951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes-from-a-biographer","tag-alcoholism","tag-aldous-huxley","tag-alfred-harcourt","tag-art","tag-bela-lugosi","tag-biography","tag-bondage","tag-cannibalism","tag-comics","tag-jean-cocteau","tag-joe-ollmann","tag-ladies-home-journal","tag-lee-miller","tag-man-ray","tag-marjorie-worthington","tag-salvador-dali","tag-sinclair-lewis","tag-stephen-king","tag-the-occult","tag-wade-davis","tag-white-zombie","tag-william-seabrook","tag-zombies"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Making of a Comics Biography, Part 2<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"William Seabrook is the most famous writer you\u2019ve never heard of.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/25\/making-comics-biography-part-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Making of a Comics Biography, Part 2 by Joe Ollmann\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"January 25, 2017 \u2013 Read Part 1 here. 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