{"id":1251,"date":"2006-06-07T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-07T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1251"},"modified":"2021-03-07T17:54:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T21:54:21","slug":"gargantarma-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1251","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Gargantarma&quot; is Coming!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stallonezone.com\/z060706garganta_ban.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stallonezone.com\/z060706garganta_ban.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">I&#8217;ve told you many times before about the C<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;\">omic Book and Toy Show<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> that <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;\">Tim Gordon<\/span> puts on several times a year in <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;\">Tampa<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;\">Tim<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> started doing the conventions about 3 or 4 years ago and they were pretty small affairs &#8211; but boy, were they fun.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">My son <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;\">Mike, John &#8220;Big&#8221; Beatty, John &#8220;Johnny Star-Warz&#8221; Higashi<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;\">James &#8220;The James&#8221; Howell<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> and I would always try to make the shows because we always had a blast. Over the years the convention has gradually gotten bigger [adding multiple guest artists per show, costume contests, an independent film room and more], but was able to retain that small show feel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;\">Tim<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> will have his next show on <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;\">August 20th<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">. My buddy, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;\">Bill Black<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> will be on hand [along with star <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;\">Brenna Barry<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">] to screen <\/span><em>&#8220;Gargantarma&#8221;<\/em><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> a documentary which explores the history of giant women in cinema. Legendary comic artist, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;\">Nick Cardy<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">, will be the guest of honor! Several other guests will be on hand.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">If you&#8217;re able to make it, you should plan on joining us!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve told you many times before about the Comic Book and Toy Show that Tim Gordon puts on several times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[56,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-movies","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251","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=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25430,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions\/25430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}