{"id":3795,"date":"2006-05-03T18:49:15","date_gmt":"2006-05-04T01:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/05\/03\/the-masked-guy\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T10:13:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T18:13:52","slug":"the-masked-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/05\/03\/the-masked-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Masked Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:6571,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.jhu.edu\\\/cty&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20080517171705\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.jhu.edu\\\/cty\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 06:12:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 01:47:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 01:47:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6572,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/140023486&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/140023486&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6573,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/windycitymike.com\\\/2006\\\/04\\\/27\\\/net-crap-427&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20081205035401\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.windycitymike.com\\\/2006\\\/04\\\/27\\\/net-crap-427\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 06:12:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 06:12:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6574,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.thepaincomics.com\\\/weekly060426a.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;new&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6575,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/140023487&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260309061545\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/140023487&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/140023487&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 01:47:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 01:47:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6576,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.thepaincomics.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6577,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.thepaincomics.com\\\/newbook.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20240529223518\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.thepaincomics.com\\\/newbook.htm&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 06:13:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 06:13:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6578,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.fantagraphics.com\\\/artist\\\/kreider\\\/kreider.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20090107094615\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.fantagraphics.com\\\/artist\\\/kreider\\\/kreider.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 06:13:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 01:47:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 01:47:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Many years ago, I spent a few summers participating in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jhu.edu\/cty\/\" title=\"Welcome to JHU-CTY\">Johns Hopkins University&#8217;s CTY program<\/a> &#8212; a combination summer camp and summer school for top-tier students (I got in through having scored a 1300 &#8212; back when the scores topped out at 1600 &#8212; on the SAT in 7th grade). Royce and I went together for one year in Claremont, CA; the following two summers I spent in Harrisburg (?), PA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/140023486\/\" title=\"Flickr: The Masked Guy, The Girl, and Dr. X\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/47\/140023486_b928192e5a_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"210\" alt=\"The Masked Guy, The Girl, and Dr. X\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>During one of the summers in Pennsylvania, one of the TA&#8217;s was a young man named Tim, who often filled his notebooks with cartoon doodles, many of which centered around the adventures of The Masked Guy. At some point during my time there, I ended up with copies of two of Tim&#8217;s Masked Guy drawings, and have had them floating around in the (many) stacks of papers that I&#8217;ve saved over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Fast-forward to 2006. Well, today. About half an hour ago, actually. I was flipping through the (large) backlog of posts that I&#8217;d been ignoring in my newsreader when a <a href=\"http:\/\/windycitymike.com\/2006\/04\/27\/net-crap-427\/\" title=\"Musings of a Chicagoan: Net Crap (4\/27)\">link from Mike<\/a> caught my eye: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepaincomics.com\/weekly060426a.htm\" title=\"The Pain: Everything I Know I Learned From the Bush Administration\">Everything I Know I Learned From the Bush Administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That art looks <em>really<\/em> familiar,&#8221; I thought. &#8220;I wonder&#8230;.&#8221; And soon I was digging through boxes, looking for those old Masked Guy cartoons.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/140023487\/\" title=\"Contrast the Differences: Tim the Humble T.A. vs. The Masked Guy\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/55\/140023487_1bfa01aaa1_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"186\" alt=\"Tim the Humble T.A. vs. The Masked Guy\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Sure enough, there was one with Tim the Humble T.A&#8230;.and the cartoonist is one Tim Kreider. While I can&#8217;t claim to remember Tim the Humble T.A.&#8217;s last name (if I ever knew it), the similarity in drawing styles is strong enough that I&#8217;m pretty sure that the two Tims are one and the same. Apparently this whole cartooning thing has been going well for him, as in addition to his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepaincomics.com\/\" title=\"The Pain -- When Will It End?\">The Pain website<\/a>, he has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepaincomics.com\/newbook.htm\" title=\"The Pain: Books and Crap for Sale\">a few books of cartoons<\/a> for sale through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantagraphics.com\/artist\/kreider\/kreider.html\" title=\"Fantagraphics: Tim Kreider\">Fantagraphics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Neat, the random stuff you run across from time to time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During one of the summers in Pennsylvania, one of the TA&#8217;s was a young man named Tim, who often filled his notebooks with cartoon doodles, many of which centered around the adventures of The Masked Guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13,39,858],"class_list":["post-3795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life","tag-links","tag-tim-kreider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}