{"id":269,"date":"2015-02-13T23:43:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T04:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/suckerstreet\/?p=269"},"modified":"2015-03-01T01:36:05","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T06:36:05","slug":"second-place-is-for-suckers-treet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/suckerstreet\/2015\/02\/13\/second-place-is-for-suckers-treet\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Place is for Suckers&#8230;treet."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quick followup to the <a title=\"Oh, hey! Actual news!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/suckerstreet\/2014\/11\/18\/oh-hey-actual-news\/\" target=\"_blank\">SPACE prize post<\/a>: <em>Sucker Stree<\/em>t <a title=\"2014 SPACE Prize Winners! (scoll way down for webcomics)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.backporchcomics.com\/space_prize.htm\" target=\"_blank\">placed second<\/a> in the Webcomic category. Thanks to all who voted! If you&#8217;re in Columbus Ohio this <del>April<\/del> July, you can come see me accept my award at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backporchcomics.com\/space.htm\" target=\"_blank\">SPACE 2015<\/a> (or you can skip the presentation and just hang out on the exhibitors&#8217; floor: that&#8217;s where the real action is). Gotta say, it feels a little strange to be winning prizes already (I&#8217;m not even through chapter 1 yet!) but I appreciate the vote of confidence. I&#8217;ll remember this as I push ahead into the story.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fridge-mag.com\/suckerstreet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015MSUComicsForum1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"271\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/suckerstreet\/2015\/02\/13\/second-place-is-for-suckers-treet\/2015msucomicsforum1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fridge-mag.com\/suckerstreet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015MSUComicsForum1.jpg?fit=1000%2C1336&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1000,1336\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2015MSUComicsForum1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fridge-mag.com\/suckerstreet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015MSUComicsForum1.jpg?fit=500%2C668&amp;ssl=1\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-271 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fridge-mag.com\/suckerstreet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015MSUComicsForum1-225x300.jpg?resize=225%2C300\" alt=\"2015MSUComicsForum1\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fridge-mag.com\/suckerstreet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015MSUComicsForum1.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fridge-mag.com\/suckerstreet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015MSUComicsForum1.jpg?resize=766%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 766w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fridge-mag.com\/suckerstreet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015MSUComicsForum1.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> In other news, I&#8217;ll be attending the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsforum.msu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">MSU Comics Forum<\/a> next Saturday (February 21) in Artist&#8217;s Alley along with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsforum.msu.edu\/?page_id=486\" target=\"_blank\">all of these fine people<\/a>.\u00a0 Promoted as &#8220;an event for scholars, creators and fans&#8221;, it has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsforum.msu.edu\/?page_id=3\" target=\"_blank\">impressive schedule <\/a>of speakers, panels and more this coming week. All in all, less hectic and more intellectually stimulating than your typical comic con. I look forward to it every winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick followup to the SPACE prize post: Sucker Street placed second in the Webcomic category. Thanks to all who voted! If you&#8217;re in Columbus Ohio this April July, you can come see me accept my award at SPACE 2015 (or[&hellip;]<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/suckerstreet\/2015\/02\/13\/second-place-is-for-suckers-treet\/\">&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":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-suckerstreet","uentry","postonpage-1","odd","post-author-suzanne"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4jfGg-4l","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/suckerstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/suckerstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/suckerstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/suckerstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/suckerstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/suckerstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/suckerstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/suckerstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/suckerstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/suckerstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}