{"id":13133,"date":"2008-08-05T07:12:48","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T11:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=13133"},"modified":"2014-01-20T17:49:28","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T22:49:28","slug":"another-sketch-for-a-creepy-kid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/05\/another-sketch-for-a-creepy-kid\/","title":{"rendered":"Another sketch for a creepy kid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the day before Denvention begins, and I&#8217;m close, but I haven&#8217;t quite made it there yet.  I&#8217;ve gotten  to Colorado, but instead of heading straight to Denver, I&#8217;ve stopped in Westminster to visit an old friend.  Before tomorrow&#8217;s chaos begins, we&#8217;ll be heading to the top of Pikes Peak, which should provide the opposite experience of what waits for me tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I thought I&#8217;d finally share the drawing I&#8217;d promised  <lj user=\"coopervale\"> back at Comic-Con, the one by an artist that I felt didn&#8217;t really capture my likeness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/GeorgeEvansScottEdelman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/GeorgeEvansScottEdelman-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"GeorgeEvansScottEdelman\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/GeorgeEvansScottEdelman-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/GeorgeEvansScottEdelman.jpg 553w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>George Evans was a brilliant comic-book artist, who was most renowned for the WWI aviation stories he did for the EC Comics  military title <i>Aces High<\/i>.   In fact, he once did me a very nice sketch of an aviator in a biplane.  But I think I startled him a bit at the 1972 EC Comics Convention when I asked him for a caricature, as I had done earlier the same day with Jack Davis. (As I&#8217;ve said before, I was one of those creepy kids carrying a sketchbook back then, but I eventually got over it.  At least I <i>think<\/i> I got over it.)   Evans quickly penciled the drawing above. <\/p>\n<p>While you could look at many of the other caricatures I&#8217;ve shared with you and probably think, yep, that&#8217;s Scott, I&#8217;m not sure what you&#8217;d make of this one. <\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;m being overly harsh.  Not about Evans&#151;who definitely acted like a gentleman in the face of an overbearing teenager, and was probably thinking, &#8220;How do I get rid of this scary kid?&#8221; (and believe me, I feel for him now)&#151;but about the likeness.  Maybe my spirit is really in there after all.  <\/p>\n<p>You tell me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the day before Denvention begins, and I&#8217;m close, but I haven&#8217;t quite made it there yet. I&#8217;ve gotten to Colorado, but instead of heading straight to Denver, I&#8217;ve stopped in Westminster to visit an old friend. Before tomorrow&#8217;s chaos begins, we&#8217;ll be heading to the top of Pikes Peak, which should provide the opposite [&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":[18,58,205,461],"class_list":["post-13133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics","tag-conventions","tag-ec-comics","tag-george-evans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13133","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=13133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13135,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13133\/revisions\/13135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}