{"id":13254,"date":"2015-08-21T18:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T22:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=13254"},"modified":"2015-08-16T17:40:37","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T21:40:37","slug":"zablo-the-barbarian-by-jim-ivey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=13254","title":{"rendered":"Zablo the Barbarian by Jim Ivey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2015\/z082115zablobarbarian_jimivey.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"711\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As promised, the first caricature that my buddy,<strong> Jim Ivey,\u00a0<\/strong>drew for me. \u00a0I was probably 19 at the time. \u00a0So that would date the art at around 1977. \u00a0Don&#8217;t you love the broken sword?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For those who came in late,<strong> Jim Ivey<\/strong> had a 40 year career as a political cartoonist [Washington Star, St. Pete Times, San Francisco Examiner and the Orlando Sentinel]. \u00a0When\u00a0I first met <strong>Jim<\/strong> in the mid-1970\u2019s he was running <strong>The Cartoon Museum<\/strong> in Orlando, Florida.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Jim<\/strong>\u00a0had a lot of irons in the fire; working as a syndicated cartoonist [<em><strong>The Thoughts of Man<\/strong><\/em>], a political cartoonist [The Orlando Sentinel], a publisher [<strong>CartooNews<\/strong>], teacher [UCF cartooning class] and even a comic book convention organizer [<strong>OrlandoCon<\/strong>]. At the time, I was into collecting comic books and later original art. <strong>Jim\u2019s<\/strong> <strong>Cartoon Museum<\/strong> was like heaven.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As promised, the first caricature that my buddy, Jim Ivey,\u00a0drew for me. \u00a0I was probably 19 at the time. \u00a0So<\/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-13254","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\/13254","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=13254"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13256,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13254\/revisions\/13256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}