{"id":1389,"date":"2007-02-01T21:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T01:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2023-02-10T18:29:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T23:29:42","slug":"heroes-helped-by-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1389","title":{"rendered":"Heroes Helped by Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s sad to say that many older comic book writers<\/strong> and artists<\/strong> end up financially strapped in their “golden years.” An organization called Heroes Initiative<\/strong> works to “provide a financial safety net for yesterdays creators who may need emergency medical aid, financial support for essentials of life and an avenue back into paying work.”<\/p>\n

One of their recent efforts involved recruiting over 80 comic book artists<\/strong> [and even a writer<\/strong> or two] to draw a custom sketch<\/strong> on the blank cover of a specially produced issue of Ultimate Spider-Man #100.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s sad to say that many older comic book writers and artists end up financially strapped in their “golden years.”<\/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-1389","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\/1389","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=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31860,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions\/31860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}