{"id":2023,"date":"2011-03-04T13:09:17","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T18:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/?p=2023"},"modified":"2013-01-02T21:37:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T02:37:21","slug":"from-scraps-to-scripts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/from-scraps-to-scripts\/","title":{"rendered":"From Scraps To Scripts."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Writing a comic strip is fun and it can also be challenging.  Coming up with new stuff on a constant basis is sometimes tougher than you might think.  Charles Shulz said that it was difficult to explain to people that staring out the window in a daze was when he did his hardest work.   He also said he had to use every idea that popped into his mind, because of the overwhelming demand of a daily strip. <\/p>\n<p>Ideas occur at any time and rarely are they fully fledged so it&#8217;s a good habit to write them down right away.  Of course that can happen anywhere and sometimes you don&#8217;t have your laptop or even a notepad handy!  Here&#8217;s proof that I&#8217;ll write on anything just to make sure I don&#8217;t forget that idea- even if it&#8217;s not a great one! \ud83d\ude09<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/writing-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/writing-2.jpg\" alt=\"Sribbled ideas on a bag.\" title=\"writing-2\" width=\"358\" height=\"558\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2028\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/writing-2.jpg 358w, https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/writing-2-96x150.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the finished strip:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/icecubes0101-color.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/icecubes0101-color-550x185.jpg\" alt=\"ICECUBES the comic strip #0101\" title=\"icecubes0101-color\" width=\"550\" height=\"185\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2031\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/icecubes0101-color-550x185.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/icecubes0101-color-150x50.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/icecubes0101-color.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing a comic strip is fun and it can also be challenging. Coming up with new stuff on a constant basis is sometimes tougher than you might think. Charles Shulz said that it was difficult to explain to people that<br \/><a class=\"btn-more btn btn-danger btn-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/from-scraps-to-scripts\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,160,133],"tags":[16,167,161],"class_list":["post-2023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-drawings","category-how-to","tag-comics","tag-leroy-brown","tag-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4363,"href":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions\/4363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}