{"id":1573,"date":"2007-08-20T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1573"},"modified":"2007-08-20T20:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T00:01:00","slug":"wheres-willie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1573","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s Willie?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/RsorZvYfVPI\/AAAAAAAAArA\/YJNMYktbYnU\/s1600-h\/z082007_blyberg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/RsorZvYfVPI\/AAAAAAAAArA\/YJNMYktbYnU\/s400\/z082007_blyberg.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5100937249166415090\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">The piece above is a close-up of a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">fanzine cover<\/span> created by <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Willie Blyberg<\/span> back in <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">1978<\/span>.  At that time, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Willie<\/span> was a very prolific and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">talented fan artist <\/span>who not only created his own fanzines, but contributed to others as well.  <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Willie&#8217;s goal<\/span> was to break into comics as a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">professional inker<\/span> and his dream became a reality. <\/p>\n<p>My favorite <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Willie Blyberg<\/span> ink job was over <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Paul Gulacy<\/span> on the <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;\" >Valkyrie: Prisoner of the Past<\/span><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> mini-series.  I must not have been the only one to enjoy it, because <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Paul <\/span>and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Willie<\/span> were nominated for the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">1988 Best Art Team Eisner Award<\/span>.  Willie inked a lot of other comics, but then I lost touch with his career.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight as I was looking through my copy of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Willie&#8217;s fanzine<\/span> from <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">1978<\/span>, I wondered where <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Willie<\/span> is today.  Perhaps someone reading this knows?<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The piece above is a close-up of a fanzine cover created by Willie Blyberg back in 1978. At that time,<\/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-1573","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\/1573","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=1573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}