{"id":207864,"date":"2020-05-15T15:16:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T19:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/?p=207864"},"modified":"2025-03-19T10:04:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T14:04:14","slug":"chris-condon-20-to-release-comic-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/2020\/05\/15\/chris-condon-20-to-release-comic-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Condon &#8217;20 to Release Comic Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>English major Chris Condon &#8217;20 has a comic book being released by <a href=\"https:\/\/imagecomics.com\/comics\/releases\/that-texas-blood-1\">Image Comics<\/a> this June. <em>That Texas Blood<\/em> has been described as &#8220;Paris, Texas gut-punched by No Country for Old Men&#8221; and &#8220;True Grit meets Breaking Bad.&#8221; Image Comics, known for series such as Walking Dead and Spawn, is the world&#8217;s third-largest publisher of comics and graphic novels.<\/p>\n<p>Of Chris&#8217;s writing, <a href=\"https:\/\/nerdist.com\/article\/that-texas-blood-comic-review\/\">Nerdist<\/a> raves, &#8220;His power really comes from how well he crafts small character moments and builds atmosphere with the sharing of folkloric story tales between the people who inhabit the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Condon is also releasing an independent digital comic through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/condonphillips\">Patreon<\/a> with the artist Jacob Phillips, a &#8220;pulpy noir adventure&#8221; called Brutal Dark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English major Chris Condon &#8217;20 has a comic book being released by Image Comics this June. That Texas Blood has been described as &#8220;Paris, Texas gut-punched by No Country for Old Men&#8221; and &#8220;True Grit meets Breaking Bad.&#8221; Image Comics, known for series such as Walking Dead and Spawn, is the world&#8217;s third-largest publisher of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":207865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-57_english-department","category-7_homepage-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207866,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207864\/revisions\/207866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}