{"id":2202,"date":"2011-03-14T21:06:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T01:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=2202"},"modified":"2021-03-14T10:33:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T14:33:07","slug":"look-whos-dressed-like-barnabas-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/14\/look-whos-dressed-like-barnabas-collins\/","title":{"rendered":"Look who&#8217;s dressed like Barnabas Collins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forty years ago today, on March 14, 1971&#8212;it was also a Monday&#8212;the <em>Dark Shadows<\/em> comic strip began.  Not many people remember it, as it only ran for 52 weeks. Even though the entire run has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dark-Shadows-Comic-Strip-Book\/dp\/0938817396\">collected in a book<\/a>, unless you were a <em>Dark Shadows<\/em> fanatic,  you probably had to be there.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I <em>was<\/em> there, and got to meet the artist of the strip, Ken Bald on  September 26, 1971, during<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2011\/01\/30\/wheres-scott-2\/\"> the 75th anniversary celebration for the comic strip<\/a> I told you about in January.<\/p>\n<p>Annoying 16-year-old comics fan with a sketchbook that I was, I of course had to get an autograph &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/KenBaldAutograph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/KenBaldAutograph-300x94.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"KenBaldAutograph\" width=\"300\" height=\"94\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/KenBaldAutograph-300x94.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/KenBaldAutograph-1024x324.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/KenBaldAutograph.jpg 1182w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; as well as a sketch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/KenBaldSketch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/KenBaldSketch-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"KenBaldSketch\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/KenBaldSketch-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/KenBaldSketch-1024x627.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But I came away with something even more special than either of those&#8212;a photo of Bald himself  dressed in Barnabas Collins garb that he took to use as reference for the strip!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/KenBaldPhotograph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/KenBaldPhotograph-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"KenBaldPhotograph\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/KenBaldPhotograph-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/KenBaldPhotograph.jpg 607w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rather dashing, don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n<p>And if Wikipedia can be trusted, Bald, at 90, is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ken_Bald\">still with us<\/a>. He must have more  vampire blood in him than I thought!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty years ago today, on March 14, 1971&#8212;it was also a Monday&#8212;the Dark Shadows comic strip began. Not many people remember it, as it only ran for 52 weeks. Even though the entire run has been collected in a book, unless you were a Dark Shadows fanatic, you probably had to be there. 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