{"id":1197,"date":"2013-03-26T17:26:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T21:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francisbonnet.com\/archive\/sft\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2013-03-26T17:26:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T21:26:31","slug":"the-reason-for-suburban-fairy-tales-hiatus-and-insane-forests-creation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francisbonnet.com\/archive\/sft\/the-reason-for-suburban-fairy-tales-hiatus-and-insane-forests-creation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reason for Suburban Fairy Tales&#8217; Hiatus and Insane Forest&#8217;s Creation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a response to the comments I received from some readers via email:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Insane Forest<\/em> is an experiment in tastelessness.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I always wanted to try my hand at something that is purposefully crude to see how well I could pull it off.\u00a0 There are many cartoons and comics that are able to find a huge audience despite (or because of) crude humor and violence.\u00a0 Would my attempt at such humor be better or worse than my past work?\u00a0 Would it be a huge success or would it be a complete failure?\u00a0 Can I keep it fresh or will I start to rely on violence as a crutch?\u00a0 You never know unless you try.\u00a0<em> Insane Forest<\/em> is something I needed to draw, experiment with, and ultimately get out of my system.<\/p>\n<p>That said, I believe<em> Insane Forest<\/em> is funny.\u00a0 It won&#8217;t rely on violence for everything, nor will every strip be filled with potty humor.\u00a0 As the series continues, scenarios will evolve and characters will grow &#8212; it&#8217;s inevitable.\u00a0 I would rather not continue to\u00a0hemorrhage readers as the series finds its footing, but I understand if such humor doesn&#8217;t appeal to everyone.\u00a0 Stick with it for a few weeks until it reaches its stride.\u00a0 With any luck a majority of you might start to really enjoy it just in time for it to end and<em> Suburban Fairy Tales<\/em> to return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a response to the comments I received from some readers via email: Insane Forest is an experiment in tastelessness. I always wanted to try my hand at something that is purposefully crude to see how well I could[&hellip;]<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/francisbonnet.com\/archive\/sft\/the-reason-for-suburban-fairy-tales-hiatus-and-insane-forests-creation\/\">&darr; Read the rest of this entry&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-1197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-blog","uentry","postonpage-1","odd","post-author-francisbonnet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ZZIB-jj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francisbonnet.com\/archive\/sft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francisbonnet.com\/archive\/sft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francisbonnet.com\/archive\/sft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisbonnet.com\/archive\/sft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisbonnet.com\/archive\/sft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/francisbonnet.com\/archive\/sft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1198,"href":"https:\/\/francisbonnet.com\/archive\/sft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions\/1198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francisbonnet.com\/archive\/sft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisbonnet.com\/archive\/sft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisbonnet.com\/archive\/sft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisbonnet.com\/archive\/sft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}