{"id":11211,"date":"2013-10-02T20:48:54","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T00:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=11211"},"modified":"2015-09-13T13:46:31","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T17:46:31","slug":"happy-87th-birthday-ramona-fradon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/02\/happy-87th-birthday-ramona-fradon\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 87th birthday, Ramona Fradon!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ramona Fradon, one of my favorite comic book artists, turned 87 today. So\u2014happy birthday, Ramona!<\/p>\n

Though I have fond memories of the Aquaman stories she drew that appeared in the back pages of Adventure Comics<\/em> throughout the ’50s and into the ’60s, I think I truly fell in love with her artwork from The Brave and The Bold<\/em> #57<\/a> (January 1965), introducing Metamorpho, which she co-created. I was nine years old.<\/p>\n

At the time, I never dreamed that she’d someday bring some of my own words to life (or that there’d even be<\/em> any of my own words to bring to life), illustrating a 5-page horror story, “My Mother, the Witch,” fourteen years later for House of Mystery<\/em> #273<\/a> (October 1979).<\/p>\n

When I searched for the proper image to celebrate Ramona’s birthday, I was surprised to find that complete story online. And not just the pages as printed, but her original artwork, thanks to an online auction<\/a>, which means you get to admire her clean lines exactly as she drew them.<\/p>\n

So check out the complete story below!<\/p>\n

\"RamonaFradonWitch1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"RamonaFradonWitch2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"RamonaFradonWitch3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"RamonaFradonWitch4\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"RamonaFradonWitch5\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Strangely, Wikipedia<\/a> lists both<\/em> October 1 and October 2 as her birthday, but since Ramona’s own Facebook<\/a> page lists the 2nd, I’ll go with that. So once more—happy birthday, Ramona!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ramona Fradon, one of my favorite comic book artists, turned 87 today. So\u2014happy birthday, Ramona! Though I have fond memories of the Aquaman stories she drew that appeared in the back pages of Adventure Comics throughout the ’50s and into the ’60s, I think I truly fell in love with her artwork from The Brave […]<\/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":[151,18,46,29,338],"class_list":["post-11211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-birthdays","tag-comics","tag-dc-comics","tag-my-writing","tag-ramona-fradon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11211","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=11211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20593,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11211\/revisions\/20593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}