{"id":22518,"date":"2016-09-30T21:25:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T01:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=22518"},"modified":"2016-09-30T21:37:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T01:37:33","slug":"billy-grahams-luke-cage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2016\/09\/30\/billy-grahams-luke-cage\/","title":{"rendered":"An early &#8217;70s Luke Cage sketch from Billy Graham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of <em>Luke Cage<\/em>, which debuted today as a Netflix series, and in memory of my young teen years as an annoying fan with a sketchbook, may I present a drawing done for me by  Billy Graham, the legendary artist who drew that character for Marvel Comics in the &#8217;70s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/BillyGrahamLukeCage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/BillyGrahamLukeCage-266x300.jpg\" alt=\"billygrahamlukecage\" width=\"266\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-22519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/BillyGrahamLukeCage-266x300.jpg 266w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/BillyGrahamLukeCage-768x866.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/BillyGrahamLukeCage-908x1024.jpg 908w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/BillyGrahamLukeCage.jpg 1978w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Though I&#8217;d eventually come to know Graham as a fellow creator at Marvel, this undated drawing was done long before then, likely in 1972, or at the latest, 1973, back when I was just another pleading kid.<\/p>\n<p>We never got particularly close later during my comics pro years, so he was just an acquaintance with whom I&#8217;d have the occasional conversation, but whenever our paths did cross in the Bullpen, he was friendly, and seemed like a nice guy.<\/p>\n<p>I wish he could have seen the character to whom he&#8217;d contributed so much get this level of attention, but alas, he died in 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Luke Cage, which debuted today as a Netflix series, and in memory of my young teen years as an annoying fan with a sketchbook, may I present a drawing done for me by Billy Graham, the legendary artist who drew that character for Marvel Comics in the &#8217;70s. Though I&#8217;d eventually come [&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":[621,18,20],"class_list":["post-22518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-billy-graham","tag-comics","tag-marvel-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22518","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=22518"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22525,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22518\/revisions\/22525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}