{"id":6763,"date":"2012-06-29T08:36:02","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T12:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=6763"},"modified":"2012-06-29T08:36:02","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T12:36:02","slug":"yes-thats-really-me-or-at-least-marie-severin-used-to-think-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2012\/06\/29\/yes-thats-really-me-or-at-least-marie-severin-used-to-think-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, that’s really me (or at least Marie Severin used to think so)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Someone took a look at my Twitter icon<\/a> last night and said, “Hey, that doesn’t look like you!” Well, it did … once. Or who knows, maybe it didn’t, and perhaps only Marie Severin thought so. Because that’s how she drew me back when dinosaurs still walked the Earth and I left my job in the Marvel Bullpen.<\/p>\n

Here’s the long-ago going away card she cooked up when I quit to become a full-time freelancer.<\/p>\n

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I can sometimes grow melancholy if I look too closely at the signatures on the card, since so many\u2014Dave Cockrum, John Verpoorten, Archie Goodwin, for example\u2014are gone.<\/p>\n

Of course, many are still with us, such as my wife there in the upper right corner, and even good old (seemingly immortal) Stan Lee in the upper left corner.<\/p>\n

But that’s not the only signature-festooned card I received during my time at Marvel …<\/p>\n

Paty a.k.a. Paty Cockrum a.k.a. Paty Greer drew a birthday card for me one year, showing off the shaggy hairdo I wore when I started at Marvel and which was my signature look for much too long.<\/p>\n

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It, too, can bring on bittersweet memories, what with its own mix of the dead—Steve Gerber, Danny Crespi, Duffy Vohland, Vinnie Colletta—and the living—John Romita, Chris Claremont … and hey, there’s Irene again!<\/p>\n

Anyway … yes, I did used to look like the caricatures in those images. And if you were to somehow peek inside my soul, I think you’d see I still look a lot like them both even now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Someone took a look at my Twitter icon last night and said, “Hey, that doesn’t look like you!” Well, it did … once. Or who knows, maybe it didn’t, and perhaps only Marie Severin thought so. Because that’s how she drew me back when dinosaurs still walked the Earth and I left my job in […]<\/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":[18,38,20,214],"class_list":["post-6763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics","tag-marie-severin","tag-marvel-comics","tag-paty-greer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6763","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=6763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}