{"id":16839,"date":"2009-02-06T21:33:38","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T02:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=16839"},"modified":"2014-12-11T13:47:04","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T18:47:04","slug":"happy-60th-birthday-rich-buckler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/06\/happy-60th-birthday-rich-buckler\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 60th birthday, Rich Buckler!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rich Buckler, best known for having co-created the character <i>Deathlok the Demolisher<\/i> and for his art on <i>Fantastic Four<\/i> in the mid-70s, turns 60 today.<\/p>\n<p>But years before he did either of those things, he drew a convention sketch for an annoying teenager with a sketchbook&#151;me!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/RichBucklerSketch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/RichBucklerSketch-300x266.jpg\" alt=\"RichBucklerSketch\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/RichBucklerSketch-300x266.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/RichBucklerSketch.jpg 628w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have no idea what con I would have been attending in New York in late November of 1972.  I think it might have been one of the first  Creation cons.  Anyone out there know for sure?<\/p>\n<p>In any case&#151;Happy Birthday, Rich!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rich Buckler, best known for having co-created the character Deathlok the Demolisher and for his art on Fantastic Four in the mid-70s, turns 60 today. But years before he did either of those things, he drew a convention sketch for an annoying teenager with a sketchbook&#151;me! I have no idea what con I would have [&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":[151,58,568],"class_list":["post-16839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-birthdays","tag-conventions","tag-rich-buckler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16839","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=16839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16841,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16839\/revisions\/16841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}