{"id":20817,"date":"2015-11-01T09:48:39","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T14:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=20817"},"modified":"2015-11-01T09:53:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T14:53:27","slug":"it-was-72-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2015\/11\/01\/it-was-72-years-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"It was 72 years ago today &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hoganmag\/status\/660820436360560640\">Tom Heintjes<\/a>, I just learned that Roy Crane&#8217;s comic strip <em>Buz Sawyer<\/em> debuted on November 1, 1943 &#8230; that is, 72 years ago today &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/BuzSawyer110143.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/BuzSawyer110143-300x90.jpeg\" alt=\"BuzSawyer110143\" width=\"300\" height=\"90\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-20818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/BuzSawyer110143-300x90.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/BuzSawyer110143.jpeg 842w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Though, as he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hoganmag\/status\/660820545387290624\">reminds<\/a> us, Buz himself didn&#8217;t make an appearance until the following day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/BuzSawyer110243.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/BuzSawyer110243-300x92.jpeg\" alt=\"BuzSawyer110243\" width=\"300\" height=\"92\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-20819\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/BuzSawyer110243-300x92.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/BuzSawyer110243.jpeg 858w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why am I telling you this?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Because it&#8217;s yet another opportunity to share what an annoying kid with a sketchpad (that is &#8230; me!) collected during his early days as a comics fan.<\/p>\n<p>On April 23, 1973, the same day I pestered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2008\/07\/21\/happy-birthday-garry-trudeau\/\">Garry Trudeau<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2012\/02\/19\/happy-birthday-curt-swan\/\">Curt Swan<\/a>,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2014\/03\/09\/happy-91st-birthday-paul-fung-jr\/\">Paul Fung, Jr.<\/a>, and others  for sketches during the Rueben Awards banquet being held at the Waldorf Astoria, I also met Crane, who kindly drew the following, nearly 30 years after his most famous creation debuted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/RoyCraneSketch042373.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/RoyCraneSketch042373-263x300.jpg\" alt=\"RoyCraneSketch042373\" width=\"263\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-20820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/RoyCraneSketch042373-263x300.jpg 263w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/RoyCraneSketch042373-898x1024.jpg 898w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/RoyCraneSketch042373.jpg 1516w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Crane would die just a few years later, on July 7, 1977. But he will live forever in my portfolio &#8230; and in my memory, for taking the time to be nice to a scruffy kid, when I&#8217;m sure all he wanted to do was eat rubber chicken and party with his friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Tom Heintjes, I just learned that Roy Crane&#8217;s comic strip Buz Sawyer debuted on November 1, 1943 &#8230; that is, 72 years ago today &#8230; Though, as he reminds us, Buz himself didn&#8217;t make an appearance until the following day. Why am I telling you this?<\/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":[702,18,701,703],"class_list":["post-20817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-buz-sawyer","tag-comics","tag-roy-crane","tag-rueben-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20817","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=20817"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20827,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20817\/revisions\/20827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}