{"id":2546,"date":"2010-09-02T10:16:12","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T18:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=2546"},"modified":"2010-09-02T10:22:52","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T18:22:52","slug":"my-wheelie-willie-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/02\/my-wheelie-willie-page\/","title":{"rendered":"My Wheelie Willie Page"},"content":{"rendered":"

From 1967 to 1972, I was in grad school at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, getting a Ph.D. in mathematics. I was in love with the then-new medium of underground comix, and I started drawing some of my own. Most these appeared in the Rutgers campus newspaper.<\/p>\n

For the sake of lifebox-building and mind-preservation, I just made a Wheelie Willie page <\/a>that has eleven of my strips in small and large formats.<\/p>\n

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As a taste of what you\u2019ll find there, here\u2019s one of my later Wheelie Willie strips that appeared in my non-fiction book, Infinity and the Mind<\/em>. <\/p>\n


\nWheelie Willie in “Take a Deep Breath,” drawn March, 1978, appeared in Infinity and the Mind, 1982, p. 46. Click for larger version.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

I drew \u201cTake a Deep Breath\u201d\u009d in Geneseo, New York, around March, 1978, right when I was finding out that, thanks to budget cuts and academic politics, after six years I was going to be fired from my first teaching job. I\u2019m Wheelie Willie here, sadly but contemplatively leaning against a tree. I have my vision of an infinite set of possible thoughts about nothing, and when I\u2019m done, ants have crawled onto my tire and my tube-like body. The philosophy of mathematics has made me happy.<\/p>\n

And, as I say, there\u2019s more on my new Wheelie Willie page <\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From 1967 to 1972, I was in grad school at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, getting a Ph.D. in mathematics. I was in love with the then-new medium of underground comix, and I started drawing some of my own. Most these appeared in the Rutgers campus newspaper. For the sake of lifebox-building and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2546"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2581,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546\/revisions\/2581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}