{"id":38444,"date":"2026-01-15T22:12:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T03:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/?p=38444"},"modified":"2026-01-15T22:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T03:12:06","slug":"why-not-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2026\/01\/15\/why-not-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Not Say What Happened? Episode 30: Why I Think of Artist John Tartaglione Every Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This episode has me reminiscing about why I think of comics artist John Tartaglione every day, my dreams of Paul Anka&#8217;s comic book collection and a visit from Gene Colan, my early attempts to get fired from Marvel Comics, a well-earned warning from Marv Wolfman, the puzzle of why covers to romance novels tend to feature aspirational art while comic book romance covers often lean into the problems, and more.<\/p>\n<p>You can eavesdrop on all those memories via the embed below or <a href=\"https:\/\/pod.link\/1775481331\">download them at the site of your choice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/39753620\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here are a couple of images related to a couple of the topics I touched on during the episode &#8212;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Charlton Comics Lettering<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>a credit for A. Machine from Blue Beetle #2, Aug 1967<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/LetteringbyAMachine.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/LetteringbyAMachine-300x252.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-38449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/LetteringbyAMachine-300x252.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/LetteringbyAMachine.webp 625w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>John Tartaglione art<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>from Love Tales #73, May 1957<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/LoveTales73AnniversaryGift.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/LoveTales73AnniversaryGift-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/LoveTales73AnniversaryGift-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/LoveTales73AnniversaryGift-694x1024.jpg 694w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This episode has me reminiscing about why I think of comics artist John Tartaglione every day, my dreams of Paul Anka&#8217;s comic book collection and a visit from Gene Colan, my early attempts to get fired from Marvel Comics, a well-earned warning from Marv Wolfman, the puzzle of why covers to romance novels tend to [&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":[298,1018],"class_list":["post-38444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-john-tartaglione","tag-why-not-say-what-happened"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38444","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=38444"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38454,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38444\/revisions\/38454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}