{"id":1149,"date":"2005-10-31T19:26:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-31T23:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2015-12-22T14:52:07","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T18:52:07","slug":"jae-lee-and-the-rest-of-the-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1149","title":{"rendered":"Jae Lee and The Rest of the Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stallonezone.com\/z103105jae.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stallonezone.com\/z103105jae.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><b>Jae Lee<\/b> has been under a lot of                        <b>pressure<\/b> lately.<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\" class=\"bodytext\">                    <b>Lee<\/b> was the artist selected to bring to life <b>Stephen                        King&#8217;s Dark Tower<\/b> characters for the presentation to persuade <b>King<\/b> to create a                        new <b>Dark Tower<\/b> story for <b>Marvel.<\/p>\n<p>                   <\/b>If<b> King <\/b>liked the art and agreed to write the                        story,<b> Lee <\/b>would be the artist for the series. If<b> King<\/b> didn&#8217;t like the art, <b>Lee<\/b> would be                        out of a job and <b>Marvel<\/b> might lose the story.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">                     <\/div>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\" class=\"bodytext\">To make matters more intense,<b> Lee<\/b>                        was a huge <b>Stephen King<\/b> fan!<\/p>\n<p>                   So there was the <b>pressure<\/b> of not only wanting to                        get the job, but also the <b>added pressure<\/b> of wanting <b>to please<\/b> someone whose work                        Lee had admired for years.<\/p>\n<p>                   Add in to that mix the <b>hundreds of thousands<\/b> of <b>fans                        around the world<\/b> who would also weigh in on <b>Lee&#8217;s interpretation<\/b> and you&#8217;ve                        got a pretty intense situation.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">                     <\/div>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\" class=\"bodytext\">So <b>Jae Lee<\/b> did what many <b>artists<\/b>                        would do in this situation&#8230; he froze&#8230;. <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">                     <\/div>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\" class=\"bodytext\">Of course that&#8217;s not how the story ends&#8230;                        click <b>HERE<\/b>                        to read <b>Newsarama<\/b>&#8216;s interview with<b> Jae Lee <\/b>and you&#8217;ll know the rest of the story!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jae Lee has been under a lot of pressure lately. Lee was the artist selected to bring to life Stephen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[58,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14356,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions\/14356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}