{"id":33102,"date":"2023-06-14T10:53:53","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T14:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33102"},"modified":"2023-06-14T10:53:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T14:53:53","slug":"rip-john-romita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33102","title":{"rendered":"RIP: John Romita"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z061423rip_john_romita.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"430\" \/><\/p>\n<p>John Romita Sr. died on June 12, 2023.\u00a0 Mr. Romita was 93.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">John Romita began his career in 1949 providing art for Timely Comics.\u00a0 From 1958 through 1965, Mr. Romita created art for DC Comics.\u00a0 In 1965, John Romita moved to Marvel Comics where he worked on the Daredevil comic series.\u00a0 When an artist was needed to replace Steve Ditko on Spider-Man, John Romita was chosen.\u00a0In 1973, John Romita was named Marvel&#8217;s Art Director.\u00a0 In this role, he influenced the look of all Marvel Comics.\u00a0 He designed covers as well as the look of new characters such as the Punisher, Wolverine and Luke Cage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">John Romita was inducted into he Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2002, and the Inkwell Awards Joe Sinnott Hall of Fame in 2020.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was and remain a big fan of John Romita&#8217;s amazing art.\u00a0 By all accounts Mr. Romita was just as nice a human being as he was an outstanding artist.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve lost a legend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our thoughts and prayers go out to John Romita&#8217;s family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Romita Sr. died on June 12, 2023.\u00a0 Mr. Romita was 93. John Romita began his career in 1949 providing<\/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":[58,17,56,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-celebs","category-comics","category-rip"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33102","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=33102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33103,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33102\/revisions\/33103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}