{"id":1336,"date":"2008-07-25T23:27:40","date_gmt":"2008-07-26T03:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=1336"},"modified":"2008-07-26T09:39:29","modified_gmt":"2008-07-26T13:39:29","slug":"a-blast-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/25\/a-blast-from-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"A Blast From The Past"},"content":{"rendered":"

You kids today with your webcomics, you don’t know how good you’ve got it. I remember the early 90sRemember kids, Red Meat<\/a> didn’t appear online until 1996.<\/footnote>, when getting a comic on the web meant puerile Space Moose<\/a> sodomy jokes or the banal comedy of Doctor Fun<\/a>. <\/p>\n

<\/crotchety><\/p>\n

Seriously, though, there’s a wealth of great stuff out there today–no one could read everything being produced, and just keeping up with the ones I quite like requires some effort. Part of my “morning rounds” of the internet includes opening a set of around 25 tabs to read the latest in the daily webcomics I follow, for example.<\/p>\n

But, back in the 90s, I had one weekly web comic (we didn’t call it that then, since it was a print comic that happened to also appear on the web) I made of point of keeping up with. It was originally a strip in the university paper at my alma mater, and was drawn by a McLaren (no relation, that I know of). The strip was called The Parking Lot Is Full<\/a>, and it had a twisted sense of humour and irreverence that often (but not always) lined up nicely with my own.<\/p>\n

The full archives<\/a> are online, even though the comic has been dead for five years now. You can even still buy the print collections<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here are two of my favourites from back in the day–these are ones I cut out of the paper and kept pinned to the wall, along with the one funny Wizard of Id strip<\/a>.<\/p>\n

From September 19th 1997<\/a>:
\n\"Love<\/p>\n

From February 6th 1998<\/a>:
\n\"Cops<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You kids today with your webcomics, you don’t know how good you’ve got it. I remember the early 90sRemember kids, Red Meat didn’t appear online until 1996., when getting a comic on the web meant puerile Space Moose sodomy jokes or the banal comedy of Doctor Fun. <\/crotchety> Seriously, though, there’s a wealth of great stuff out there today–no one… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[83,132,285,155],"class_list":["post-1336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-cliches","tag-benevolent-surrealism","tag-cartoons","tag-nostalgia","tag-webcomics","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-ly","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1340,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions\/1340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}