{"id":107266,"date":"2017-02-01T10:35:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T15:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=107266"},"modified":"2017-02-01T10:58:15","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T15:58:15","slug":"making-of-a-comics-biography-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/01\/making-of-a-comics-biography-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Making of a Comics Biography, Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/paris-r-3-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-107272\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/paris-r-3-1-1024x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/paris-r-3-1-1024x224.jpg 1024w, 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https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/paris-r-3-2-1-706x1024.jpg 706w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/paris-r-3-3-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/paris-r-3-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/paris-r-3-3-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/paris-r-3-3-1-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/paris-r-3-3-1-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/paris-r-3-3-1-691x1024.jpg 691w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/paris-r-3-4-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/paris-r-3-4-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/paris-r-3-4-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/paris-r-3-4-1-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/paris-r-3-4-1-768x1139.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/paris-r-3-4-1-690x1024.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/paris-r-3-5-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/paris-r-3-5-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/paris-r-3-5-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/paris-r-3-5-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/paris-r-3-5-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/paris-r-3-5-1-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/paris-r-3-6-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107283\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/paris-r-3-6-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/paris-r-3-6-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/paris-r-3-6-1-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/paris-r-3-6-1-768x1068.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/paris-r-3-6-1-736x1024.jpg 736w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/paris-r-3-4.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><em>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/18\/making-comics-biography-part-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Part 1<\/a>\u00a0and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/25\/making-comics-biography-part-2\/#more-106951\" target=\"_blank\"> Part 2<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>With a career spanning thirty-four\u00a0years, cartoonist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drawnandquarterly.com\/author\/joe-ollmann\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Ollmann<\/a> is fairly old.\u00a0He is the author of seven graphic novels; one of them, <\/em>This Will\u00a0All End in Tears<em>, won a Doug Wright Award\u00a0for Best Book in 2007, but several other of his books have lost that same award since then. 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":[27038,199,26325,17,25410,131,27034,27037,27039,26455,2099,865,1067,1171,27035,952,173,20545,27040,12237,16993,25238,27036,20067],"class_list":["post-107266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes-from-a-biographer","tag-academica","tag-biography","tag-bondage","tag-books","tag-castle","tag-comics","tag-comics-biography","tag-conference","tag-dabble","tag-dissertation","tag-education","tag-france","tag-graphic-novel","tag-high-school","tag-joe-ollman","tag-moby-dick","tag-north-carolina","tag-out-of-print","tag-paris-review-t-shirt","tag-readers","tag-shaving","tag-university","tag-white-whale","tag-william-seabrook"],"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 3<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If you fly somewhere and take a train and spend a week going through someone\u2019s diaries and letters, you are kind of obligated to make a book with the results.\" \/>\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\/02\/01\/making-of-a-comics-biography-part-3\/\" \/>\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 3 by Joe Ollmann\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"February 1, 2017 \u2013 Read Part 1\u00a0and Part 2. 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