{"id":27857,"date":"2021-07-05T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=27857"},"modified":"2025-10-05T16:10:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T20:10:21","slug":"howard-chaykin-interview-by-michael-tisserand-a-must-read-for-all-chaykin-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=27857","title":{"rendered":"Have You Read Anything by Howard Chaykin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2021\/z070521chaykin_interview1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"367\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Howard Chaykin is one of my all-time favorite comic creators.\u00a0 Chaykin started as an assistant to Gil Kane, worked his way up to being an artist on lesser known titles, then some of the more popular characters including the first issues of <em>Star Wars<\/em>.\u00a0 Along the way he began writing and drawing his own stories and he never looked back.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chaykin&#8217;s comic stories are intelligent and assume the reader is as well.\u00a0 He has a sense of humor and irony in every tale.\u00a0 His work usually contains adult language and adult situations for which he does not apologize.\u00a0 Comics aren&#8217;t just for kids.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve never read anything by Howard Chaykin, you really should consider changing that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2021\/z070521chaykin_interview2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"778\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Chaykin is one of my all-time favorite comic creators.\u00a0 Chaykin started as an assistant to Gil Kane, worked his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[58,17,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-celebs","category-comics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27857","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=27857"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40178,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27857\/revisions\/40178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}