{"id":5892,"date":"2010-03-21T10:42:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T14:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=5892"},"modified":"2012-03-21T16:37:29","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T20:37:29","slug":"happy-79th-birthday-al-williamson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/21\/happy-79th-birthday-al-williamson\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 79th birthday, Al Williamson!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been so busy working on <a href=\"http:\/\/blastr.com\/\"><i>Wire<\/i><\/a> this week I had no time left over to blog, so I thought I&#8217;d come up for air to post this quickie. (Well, maybe I had some time, but after a long day&#8217;s work, I often had no <i>brain<\/i> left over!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Al_Williamson\">Al Williamson<\/a>, one of the great EC Comics artists, whose drawing style is extremely romantic and lyrical, turned 79 today, which means it&#8217;s once more time for me to dig into the portfolio I carried at comic-book conventions when I was an annoying kid with a sketchpad. <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not familiar with Williamson&#8217;s work,  <a href=\"http:\/\/goldenagecomicbookstories.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/3-of-fleagles-al-williamson-roy-krenkel.html\">these classic EC Comics tales<\/a> will easily convince you of his greatness.<\/p>\n<p>I wrangled the drawing below out of Williamson at the EC Fan Addict Convention in 1972. (Click if you&#8217;d like to see the lizard a little larger.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/AlWilliamsonLizard.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/AlWilliamsonLizard-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"AlWilliamsonLizard\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5893\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/AlWilliamsonLizard-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/AlWilliamsonLizard.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy Birthday, Al!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been so busy working on Wire this week I had no time left over to blog, so I thought I&#8217;d come up for air to post this quickie. (Well, maybe I had some time, but after a long day&#8217;s work, I often had no brain left over!) Al Williamson, one of the great EC [&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":[186,151,18],"class_list":["post-5892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-al-williamson","tag-birthdays","tag-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5892","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=5892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}