{"id":33,"date":"2006-03-14T12:23:45","date_gmt":"2006-03-14T17:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2006\/03\/14\/potshots\/"},"modified":"2006-03-14T12:23:45","modified_gmt":"2006-03-14T17:23:45","slug":"potshots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2006\/03\/14\/potshots\/","title":{"rendered":"potshots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When my friend Leanne was passing through town last month, we went for a short hike around Lake Griffey.\u00c2\u00a0 While we were hiking, she mentioned that she really liked a comic called <a href=\"http:\/\/ashleighbrilliant.com\/\">Potshots<\/a> and that she was disappointed that her local paper had stopped carrying the comic.\u00c2\u00a0 Luckily, the comics are available on the web.\u00c2\u00a0 Leanne isn&#8217;t super internet-connected, so I offered to compile some of the potshots and send them to her in the mail.\u00c2\u00a0 I used wget to download them, but I needed to find a way to print the images many-to-a-page.<\/p>\n<p>I eventually came upon using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagemagick.org\/\">ImageMagick<\/a>&#8216;s montage command.\u00c2\u00a0 This worked pretty well for me:<\/p>\n<p>C:\\Documents and Settings\\ghing\\Desktop\\potshots&gt;U:\\ImageMagick-6.2.6-Q16\\montag<br \/>\ne.exe -tile 2&#215;5 -adjoin *.gif -geometry 300&#215;190 sheet.png<\/p>\n<p>Then I could just view and print the composite images in firefox, provided I made my margins small and zoomed in first.<\/p>\n<p>Potshots is pretty interesting.\u00c2\u00a0 The artist who draws them was once called &#8220;history&#8217;s only full time, professional published eppigramist.&#8221; The black and white illustrations with clever phrases definitely have this feeling of antiquity to them.\u00c2\u00a0 The sayings have a strange tone as well, that can be heartfealt but also sarcastic. \u00c2\u00a0 So, they come off as a weird hybrid of Family Circle and Edward Gorey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my friend Leanne was passing through town last month, we went for a short hike around Lake Griffey.\u00c2\u00a0 While we were hiking, she mentioned that she really liked a comic called Potshots and that she was disappointed that her local paper had stopped carrying the comic.\u00c2\u00a0 Luckily, the comics are available on the web.\u00c2\u00a0&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2006\/03\/14\/potshots\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">potshots<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[1],"tags":[64,65,66,21287],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics","tag-images","tag-printing","tag-howto","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4wnIz-potshots","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}