{"id":3173,"date":"2009-05-31T08:31:42","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T12:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=3173"},"modified":"2009-05-31T08:31:42","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T12:31:42","slug":"andrew-charipar%e2%80%99s-cobra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=3173","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Charipar\u2019s Cobra"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here\u2019s Andrew Charipar\u2019s<\/strong> take on Stallone <\/strong>as \u201cCobra\u201d<\/strong> and a humorous story that goes with it.\u00a0 I got this sketch from Andrew <\/strong>at the 2009 FX con<\/strong>.\u00a0 Although I regularly visit Andrew\u2019s blog<\/strong><\/a>, I\u2019d never met him.\u00a0 A few weeks before FX<\/strong>, Andrew <\/strong>posted that he\u2019d take requests for sketches to have ready for anyone attending the show.\u00a0 I put in for the Stallone<\/strong> character of his choice.\u00a0 A few days later, Andrew<\/strong> posted the Stallone<\/strong> piece you see here and said I could pick it up at FX<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The weekend of the show arrived and I found Andrew\u2019s table.\u00a0 He had art available for sale, his sketchbook, and comics spread out.\u00a0 A small group of folks were around his table ordering or picking up sketches. \u00a0 I waited my turn, stepped up and said, \u201cHi.\u00a0 I think you have a Cobra<\/strong> for me.\u201d\u00a0 A puzzled look crossed Andrew\u2019s face and he replied, \u201cI don\u2019t think so.\u201d\u00a0 Now I was the one looking confused.\u00a0 Andrew asked, \u201cAre you sure you requested a Cobra<\/strong> from me?\u201d<\/p>\n

Now I know that he\u2019s drawn the piece \u2014 I\u2019ve seen it on his website, but I can tell by the look on his face that he has no idea why I would think that he\u2019s drawn me a Cobra <\/strong>sketch.\u00a0 I go on, \u201cMy name is Craig Zablo<\/strong>.\u00a0 I requested the sketch through your website and you decided to do Stallone<\/strong> as Cobra<\/strong>.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s like a light went on and Andrew<\/strong> replied, \u201cOh, a Stallone Cobra<\/strong>!\u00a0 My buddy and I were just talking about GI Joe <\/strong>and we thought you were referring to \u2018that\u2019 Cobra<\/strong>.\u201d\u00a0 Andrew<\/strong> then proceeded to pull out the piece you see above.<\/p>\n

Andrew\u2019s a cool guy with very reasonable prices for his sketchbook and originals.\u00a0 Check out his blog<\/strong><\/a> and give him some props.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s Andrew Charipar\u2019s take on Stallone as \u201cCobra\u201d and a humorous story that goes with it.\u00a0 I got this sketch<\/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":[58,17,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-celebs","category-movies","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3173","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=3173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3174,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3173\/revisions\/3174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}