{"id":2379,"date":"2011-04-01T11:28:19","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T16:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=2379"},"modified":"2019-11-25T16:48:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T21:48:25","slug":"sorry-buoys-gulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/04\/01\/sorry-buoys-gulls\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorry, Buoys & Gulls!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Monkey's<\/a>

Monkey’s Mea Culpa by Joe Williams<\/p><\/div>\n

Sorry, folks, but there will be no Monkey & Bird<\/strong><\/em><\/a> this week. Again!<\/strong><\/em> I’ve been busy with real life and a super secret project from CO2 Comics<\/strong><\/a> that calls on my skills as a graphic designer rather than a cartoonist. Stay Tuned! The boys will let you in on the secret soon!<\/p>\n

By way of an apology, I offer this video\u00a0 of Billy Eckstine’s<\/strong> hit. He sounds more sincere than I do anyway.<\/p>\n

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Making comics because I want to — when I get around to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sorry, folks, but there will be no Monkey & Bird this week. Again! I’ve been busy with real life and a super secret project from CO2 Comics that calls on my skills as a graphic designer rather than a cartoonist. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_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":[49,53,4],"tags":[12,43,5,3666,3663,25,6,3660],"class_list":["post-2379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-came-from-the-sketchbook","category-monkey-bird","category-news","tag-co2-comics","tag-humor","tag-joe-williams","tag-monkey-bird","tag-sketch","tag-sketchbook","tag-tina-garceau","tag-willceau"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-Cn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":270,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2009\/08\/26\/origins-of-the-species\/","url_meta":{"origin":2379,"position":0},"title":"More Origins of the Species","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"August 26, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Monkey before Bird. 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