{"id":5624,"date":"2012-02-19T11:00:11","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=5624"},"modified":"2015-09-13T13:48:09","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T17:48:09","slug":"happy-birthday-curt-swan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/19\/happy-birthday-curt-swan\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday, Curt Swan!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, I know Curt is no longer with us, but he would have turned 82 the other day, and since he was THE Superman artist of my youth, I figured I should take note. His is the face of Superman<\/a> I see when I close my eyes, though you’d think, based on my age, that face could have easily belonged to Wayne Boring.<\/p>\n

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As far as I know, I only met Curt once, back in 1973 at a National Cartoonist Society Ruben Awards banquet held at the Waldorf Astoria. I was just a fanboy then, my job in the Marvel Bullpen still in the future. I was the guest of cartoonist Bill Kresse, whom I’d met thanks to a high school class trip to the New York Daily News<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I wore a old tuxedo which had belonged to a family friend, and as is true for all fanboys back then, I carried a sketch pad tucked under one arm. And to the embarrassment of my host, I interrupted the artists as they tried to eat their rubber chicken, and asked for drawings. (At least I assume my actions had to embarrass Bill. He never said. Who knows? Maybe he found them amusing.)<\/p>\n

Here’s what Curt graciously drew for me.<\/p>\n

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Happy birthday, Curt! You are not forgotten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, I know Curt is no longer with us, but he would have turned 82 the other day, and since he was THE Superman artist of my youth, I figured I should take note. His is the face of Superman I see when I close my eyes, though you’d think, based on my age, that […]<\/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":[42,151,18,172,46,36],"class_list":["post-5624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bill-kresse","tag-birthdays","tag-comics","tag-curt-swan","tag-dc-comics","tag-superman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624","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=5624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20594,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624\/revisions\/20594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}