{"id":18379,"date":"2010-05-17T22:34:32","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T02:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=18379"},"modified":"2015-02-01T20:08:39","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T01:08:39","slug":"my-bullpen-bull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/17\/my-bullpen-bull\/","title":{"rendered":"My Bullpen Bull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to repeated requests (OK&#8212;make that <i>one<\/i> request), here&#8217;s a column I wrote for <i>The Comics Journal<\/i> back in 1978. It was pointed out to me that though I posted the text of all of my <a href=\"http:\/\/scottedelman.livejournal.com\/tag\/ethics\">mid-&#8217;80s <i>TCJ<\/i> Ethics columns<\/a> here, I never shared my much earlier one-off which I&#8217;d called &#8220;Bullpen Bull.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As you&#8217;ll see,  I used to scribble down  quips made by my fellow Bullpenners, and once I was no longer on staff, I decided to share my favorites.  <\/p>\n<p>My favorite from among my favorites?  The day production manager John Verpoorten, bemoaning how late our books had become, walked into the Bullpen, towering over us all, and said, &#8220;I was just speaking to our printer. He was wondering if we were still in business.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/BullpenBull.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/BullpenBull-89x300.jpg\" alt=\"BullpenBull\" width=\"89\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/BullpenBull-89x300.jpg 89w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/BullpenBull-304x1024.jpg 304w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/BullpenBull.jpg 701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 89px) 100vw, 89px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to repeated requests (OK&#8212;make that one request), here&#8217;s a column I wrote for The Comics Journal back in 1978. It was pointed out to me that though I posted the text of all of my mid-&#8217;80s TCJ Ethics columns here, I never shared my much earlier one-off which I&#8217;d called &#8220;Bullpen Bull.&#8221; As [&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":[18,20,29],"class_list":["post-18379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics","tag-marvel-comics","tag-my-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18379","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=18379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18382,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18379\/revisions\/18382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}