{"id":6501,"date":"2016-04-11T08:09:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T12:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=6501"},"modified":"2021-11-18T10:21:26","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T15:21:26","slug":"smells-like-library-by-tommy-kovac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2016\/04\/11\/smells-like-library-by-tommy-kovac\/","title":{"rendered":"Smells Like Library by Tommy Kovac"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"smells<\/a><\/p>\n

On my last indie comics mining trip in Etsy I bought:\u00a0 Smells Like Library v. 2 Funny Library Comics <\/a>from the tommykovac Etsy store.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/a>Afterwards, I carried around the awesome bookmark it came with to remind me to talk about this a little more.<\/p>\n

If you didn’t know, librarians are a diverse and often creative group who love creative stuff about libraries (and cats, but besides the point).\u00a0 Tommy Kovac makes and writes wonderful creative stuff about libraries.<\/a><\/p>\n

Besides comics you can buy through his Etsy store and comics you can read on his site, he also has a blog that Smells Like Library<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 Go and breathe in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On my last indie comics mining trip in Etsy I bought:\u00a0 Smells Like Library v. 2 Funny Library Comics from the tommykovac Etsy store.\u00a0\u00a0 Afterwards, I carried around the awesome bookmark it came with to remind me to talk about this a little more. If you didn’t know, librarians are a diverse and often creative… Continue reading Smells Like Library by Tommy Kovac<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[6,172,73],"class_list":["post-6501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-comics","tag-consumption","tag-librarians"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7257,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2016\/08\/24\/librarian-comic-round-up\/","url_meta":{"origin":6501,"position":0},"title":"Librarian comic round up","author":"leems","date":"August 24, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Hey, so I've noticed that comic postings can sometimes get buried and not be obvious. 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