{"id":1596,"date":"2012-01-15T23:40:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T23:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kommiekomiks.com\/driftwood\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2023-02-04T21:21:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T21:21:46","slug":"driftwood-9-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/?p=1596","title":{"rendered":"Driftwood 9 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Read more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.children-ne.org.uk\/\">Children North East<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>I used to do that with the money my dad&#8217;s parents sent me for Christmas and birthdays. When they found out I gave their money to charities they stopped sending it &#8230; Oh well, <a href=\"http:\/\/roggenwolf.tumblr.com\/post\/14816154255\/among-the-alternatives-to-this-terror-is\">charity<\/a> as such is but a band aid on existing injustices, not a tool against their actual causes.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>Swedish peoples, tentatively rejoice! As it turns out I&#8217;m <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">85%<\/span> sure that there will be a Driftwood book in Swedish printed and ready for the masses at the <a href=\"http:\/\/kulturhuset.stockholm.se\/Serieteket\/\">Stockholm Comics Festival<\/a> (SPX) at the end of this coming April! In one form or another. :3<\/p>\n<p>An English version will follow this summer. Whee!<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Edit, January 17th: <\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Yeah, now I can announce it publicly &#8211; there will definitely be a Swedish <em>Driftwood<\/em> book out at the end of April, in time for SPX! And it will be published by <\/strong><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.epix.se\">Epix<\/a><strong>. :3 <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>We still have to decide exactly how fat it&#8217;s going to be, and you can help in the new poll on the left! <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>As mentioned, there will be an English version out next summer, published by yours truly, so even if you don&#8217;t read Swedish you are welcome to answer the poll.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With the English book I can do pretty much what I want, so I will release both physical copies and a digital PDF version. You&#8217;ll be able to order the physical book either from me in Germany, or directly from the printer (ComiXpress) in the USA, which might be handy for all you North Americans. :o)<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>93 (not 97 as I wrote just now &#8230; I really worked my ass off today) years ago today Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were murdered. Sadly I couldn&#8217;t visit their graves today, because I have to work my ass off. This photo is from the same date in 2009:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"A red rose for &quot;Red Rosa&quot; by Turukhtan, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/turukhtan\/3199980292\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3367\/3199980292_10bb291648.jpg\" alt=\"A red rose for &quot;Red Rosa&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Read more about Children North East.) I used to do that with the money my dad&#8217;s parents sent me for Christmas and birthdays. When they found out I gave their money to charities they stopped sending it &#8230; Oh well, charity as such is but a band aid on existing injustices, not a tool against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driftwood-chapter-9","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2184,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions\/2184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}