{"id":1482,"date":"2007-05-26T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-26T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1482"},"modified":"2015-12-22T14:52:27","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T18:52:27","slug":"raf-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1482","title":{"rendered":"Raf @ Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/Rlfe3d3VgtI\/AAAAAAAAAd4\/t_Ww6bi5y6I\/s1600-h\/z052507raf.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/Rlfe3d3VgtI\/AAAAAAAAAd4\/t_Ww6bi5y6I\/s400\/z052507raf.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068764950119678674\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">I just found out earlier this week that my buddy, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Rafael Kayanan<\/span>, will be a guest at this year&#8217;s <a style=\"color: rgb(204, 0, 0);\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heroesonline.com\/con-update.htm\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Heroes Con<\/span><\/a>.  I first met <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Raf<\/span> about <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">30 years<\/span> ago!  He was just a kid wanting break in <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">comics<\/span>.  Since then he&#8217;s gone on a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">successful career<\/span> in both the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">comic<\/span> and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">film<\/span> industry.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Raf&#8217;s<\/span> not only an <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">extremely talented artist<\/span> [as in creating <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">artwork<\/span>], but also a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">highly accomplished martial artist<\/span> [as in can <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">kick some butt<\/span>].  In the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">comic field<\/span> he&#8217;s worked on everything from <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Conan<\/span> to <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Star Wars<\/span>.  In the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">film industry<\/span> he&#8217;s done everything from <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">storyboards<\/span> and<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> conceptual art<\/span> to serving  as <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">technical adviser<\/span> and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">fight choreographer<\/span> on major films.  You just know he&#8217;s got some great stories.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Raf<\/span> will be at a table next to <a style=\"color: rgb(204, 0, 0);\" href=\"http:\/\/bigbeatty.blogspot.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Big John Beatty<\/span><\/a>.  You just know that this is going to be THE place to be.  Hope to see you there!<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just found out earlier this week that my buddy, Rafael Kayanan, will be a guest at this year&#8217;s Heroes<\/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-1482","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\/1482","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=1482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14374,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions\/14374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}