{"id":1404,"date":"2012-09-09T14:29:30","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T19:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:32:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:32:14","slug":"michael-c-hsiung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/09\/michael-c-hsiung\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist: Michael C. Hsiung"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bearded mermen, horned creatures and bears, oh my! The world created by the hand of Michael C. Hsiung<\/a>\u00a0is wonderfully skewed and filled with an odd assortment of mythical creatures. Each piece is paired with an equally charming (and sometimes lengthy) title, for example the last piece on the left:\u00a0On the lesser known labors of Sir Anthony of Tuscany and how the exodus of the Lithuanian bears began <\/strong>counters the piece on the bottom right: On the Lithuanian bear’s revenge against the sons of Sir Anthony of Tuscany<\/strong>. And yes, he finds drawing hair to be therapeutic.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Bearded mermen, horned creatures and bears, oh my! The world created by the hand of Michael C. Hsiung\u00a0is wonderfully skewed and filled with an odd assortment of mythical creatures. Each piece is paired with an equally charming (and sometimes lengthy) title, for example the last piece on the left:\u00a0On the lesser known labors of Sir […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[16,155],"tags":[37,125,263,1874,262,261,260],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","category-drawing","tag-art","tag-artist-2","tag-bears","tag-drawing","tag-mermen","tag-michael-c-hsiung","tag-pen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-mE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3918,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/30\/mario-kolaric\/","url_meta":{"origin":1404,"position":0},"title":"Artist: Mario Kolaric","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"January 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"My heart swoons for the work of\u00a0Mario Kolaric. 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