{"id":18461,"date":"2010-06-12T23:45:36","date_gmt":"2010-06-13T03:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=18461"},"modified":"2015-02-03T12:04:05","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T17:04:05","slug":"happy-69th-birthday-neal-adams-and-happy-62nd-birthday-len-wein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/12\/happy-69th-birthday-neal-adams-and-happy-62nd-birthday-len-wein\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 69th Birthday, Neal Adams! And Happy 62nd Birthday, Len Wein!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long before I worked with or beside either of these guys as a comics professional, I interacted with them both in the role of annoying fan with a sketchbook. So to annoy them even further, I present two sketches I got from today’s birthday boys long ago and far away. <\/p>\n

First up, a drawing by Neal Adams<\/a> done at a July 4th Seuling con during those much more innocent days before he started charging $10.00 per sketch in ’72 or so. (And who knows<\/i> what he’s charging now!)<\/p>\n

\"NealAdamsSketch\"<\/a>
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Next, a sketch from Len Wein<\/a>—yes, Len Wein, who most of you probably know as a writer only—of a character he’d created. This one was done by my then-future boss at the same 1971 con at which I also got this Alan Weiss\/Gerry Conway creation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

Hmmm … based on those dates, I guess I’m not just telling you all that they’re<\/i> old—but that I’m<\/i> getting up there, too!<\/p>\n

Happy birthday, guys!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Long before I worked with or beside either of these guys as a comics professional, I interacted with them both in the role of annoying fan with a sketchbook. So to annoy them even further, I present two sketches I got from today’s birthday boys long ago and far away. First up, a drawing by […]<\/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":[151,18,50,44],"class_list":["post-18461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-birthdays","tag-comics","tag-len-wein","tag-neal-adams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18461","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=18461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18464,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18461\/revisions\/18464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}