{"id":10006,"date":"2013-04-05T22:44:29","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T02:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=10006"},"modified":"2013-04-05T22:44:29","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T02:44:29","slug":"the-first-and-last-time-i-saw-carmine-infantino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/05\/the-first-and-last-time-i-saw-carmine-infantino\/","title":{"rendered":"The first and last time I saw Carmine Infantino"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first time I saw Carmine Infantino was at my first comic book convention<\/a> back in 1970. Or so I assume. After all, he was<\/em> one of the Guests of Honor there. But being for the first time in the presence of my tribe, I was in a daze, so much of that weekend is a muddled explosion of joy, and I don’t specifically remember meeting him.<\/p>\n

The last time I saw him was forty years later at the funeral of Mark Hanerfeld, coincidentally the guy without whom I’d never have made it to that first convention. We chatted a bit, mostly about Mark.<\/p>\n

I have no great anecdotes to share about the man who drew the first comic book of the Silver Age<\/a>, and whose work both in that issue and for decades to come imprinted itself on my soul. I wish I did. And you can find the details of his life and plenty of examples of his talent elsewhere.<\/p>\n

But I thought the least I could do to say thanks at a time like this was to share his biography as printed in the program book for that 1970 con which changed my life …<\/p>\n

\"CarmineInfantino1970ComicCon1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

… as well as the back cover, which featured his artwork.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"CarmineInfantino1970ComicCon2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Neither seemed to exist online. Well, now they do.<\/p>\n

R.I.P., Carmine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first time I saw Carmine Infantino was at my first comic book convention back in 1970. Or so I assume. After all, he was one of the Guests of Honor there. But being for the first time in the presence of my tribe, I was in a daze, so much of that weekend is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[304,18,305,85],"class_list":["post-10006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-carmine-infantino","tag-comics","tag-mark-hanerfeld","tag-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}