{"id":3918,"date":"2011-03-08T11:52:12","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T10:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/?p=3918"},"modified":"2011-11-24T13:36:51","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T12:36:51","slug":"diffusion-archive-highlight-a-sort-of-autobiography-by-warren-craghead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/diffusion-archive-highlight-a-sort-of-autobiography-by-warren-craghead\/","title":{"rendered":"Diffusion Archive Highlight: A Sort Of Autobiography by Warren Craghead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned this set of Storycubes briefly in one of my first ever blog posts, <a href=\"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/comics-cubed\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Comics, Cubed&#8221;<\/a>, but it&#8217;s elaborate concept deserves another shout-out. Warren Craghead, an artist and curator, created ten Storycubes depicting a fictional autobiography, each representing a decade of his life (the last, in a touch of dark humour, simply shows an urn). Starting with his birth in 1970, and ending with his &#8220;death&#8221; in 2060, the cubes are drawn in different style and tones, the surreal, abstract illustrations portraying the world view and imagined future of a man who, in his own words, &#8220;is constantly drawing&#8221;. Warren&#8217;s cubes have received some pretty positive reviews from the comic scene as well &#8211; Matthew Brady described it as &#8220;a sweeping, fascinating portrait of a life&#8221; on his <a href=\"http:\/\/warren-peace.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/sort-of-autobiography-cool-comics-ideas.html\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3929\" href=\"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/diffusion-archive-highlight-a-sort-of-autobiography-by-warren-craghead\/warrencraghead-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3929\" src=\"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/warrencraghead-500x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/warrencraghead-500x185.jpg 500w, https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/warrencraghead-300x111.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/warrencraghead.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download and make &#8220;A Sort Of Autobiography&#8221; for yourself <a href=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/?p=1977\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned this set of Storycubes briefly in one of my first ever blog posts, &#8220;Comics, Cubed&#8221;, but it&#8217;s elaborate concept deserves another shout-out. Warren Craghead, an artist and curator, created ten Storycubes depicting a fictional autobiography, each representing a decade of his life (the last, in a touch of dark humour, simply shows an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[5,26,79,337,166,19],"class_list":["post-3918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","tag-bookleteer","tag-comics","tag-diffusion","tag-inspiration","tag-inspiring-uses","tag-storycubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3918"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5285,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3918\/revisions\/5285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}