I’ve been thinking about Christmas recently. Just last week I wrapped my first present of the year, and we’re not even to September yet.<\/p>\n
But when one works retail, as I do, and one works retail management, as I do, then come November 1st my life vanishes as my work load increases, my work week lengths, and Christmas means little more than, “Why, that’s my day off that week!”<\/p>\n
I know what I want for Christmas. (Other than things like world peace, George Bush’s impending unemployment, etc.) Newsarama posted an article today about It’s Only a Game<\/i><\/a>, a collection of single-panel comic strips written and drawn by Charles Schulz during the 1950s. From the press release announcing the book: “[F]ew people know that during the late 1950s, during a period of great creativity, Schulz was also doing another newspaper comics series. ‘It\u2019s Only a Game’ took a look at people and their pastimes, showing us how we win, how we lose, and how we play the game. This long forgotten work is now being put into a book for the very first time, as About Comics publishes the complete collection It\u2019s Only a Game.”<\/p>\n Between this and Fantagraphics’ The Complete Peanuts<\/i> collections, this is a great time to be a Charles Schulz fan.<\/p>\n Now if I could only figure out what to buy my sister for her birthday come Saturday…. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been thinking about Christmas recently. Just last week I wrapped my first present of the year, and we’re not even to September yet. But when one works retail, as I do, and one works retail management, as I do, then come November 1st my life vanishes as my work load increases, my work weekContinue reading “It's Only a Game”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[61,64],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comic-books","tag-charles-schulz","tag-christmas","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}