{"id":13119,"date":"2008-08-01T13:14:29","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T17:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=13119"},"modified":"2014-01-18T13:41:23","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T18:41:23","slug":"bill-kresse-meets-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/01\/bill-kresse-meets-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Kresse meets <i>Kong<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While talking with James Owen at Comic-Con about the many artists who&#8217;ve done caricatures of me over the years&#151;it&#8217;s amazing what an annoying kid with a sketchpad can accomplish&#151;I happened to mention one drawing by an accomplished EC artist that was less than stellar.  I promised to him that I&#8217;d share that one here, but before I do,  I&#8217;d rather post a few more that actually turned out well.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already told you about my meeting with <i>New York Daily News<\/i> cartoonist <a href=\"http:\/\/lambiek.net\/artists\/k\/kresse_bill.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Kresse<\/a>, which led to my getting  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2008\/07\/22\/a-living-dog\/\">a portrait from Joe Papin<\/a>.  Here&#8217;s a drawing done by Kresse himself, for the magazine <i>Kong<\/i>, which was an underground publication  classmate Eric Shalit and I started while attending South Shore High School in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/KresseKong.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/KresseKong-300x93.jpg\" alt=\"KresseKong\" width=\"300\" height=\"93\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/KresseKong-300x93.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/KresseKong-1024x319.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/KresseKong.jpg 1661w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bill did this drawing to wish us luck, and we published it in our first issue during the summer of 1972. And now it&#8217;s become something I wouldn&#8217;t have been able to predict a third of a century ago&#151;my newest LJ icon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While talking with James Owen at Comic-Con about the many artists who&#8217;ve done caricatures of me over the years&#151;it&#8217;s amazing what an annoying kid with a sketchpad can accomplish&#151;I happened to mention one drawing by an accomplished EC artist that was less than stellar. I promised to him that I&#8217;d share that one here, but [&hellip;]<\/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":[42],"class_list":["post-13119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bill-kresse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13119","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=13119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13122,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13119\/revisions\/13122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}