{"id":3382,"date":"2009-08-14T08:53:56","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T12:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=3382"},"modified":"2021-03-06T15:02:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T19:02:40","slug":"mike-zeck-kicks-things-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=3382","title":{"rendered":"Mike Zeck Kicks Things Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2009\/z081409zeck_batman_rbcc145.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"618\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Digging around in the <strong>ZONE<\/strong> vault and we find a <strong>Mike Zeck<\/strong> front piece for <strong>RBCC #145<\/strong> from <strong>1978<\/strong>. <strong>Mike<\/strong> was a regular contributor to the <strong>RBCC<\/strong> fanzine and he wasn&#8217;t alone. Many folks who went on to have successful careers in the comics field were proud to have their art appear in the pages of <strong>RBCC<\/strong>. \u00a0In this issue you could see the early work of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boblayton.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bob Layton<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnbolton.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Bolton<\/a>, Dennis Fujitake, David Michelinie, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hembeck.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fred Hembeck<\/a>, Don Rosa, and <a href=\"http:\/\/gammillustrations.bizland.com\/monsterart\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kerry Gammill<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Two ads for <strong>fanzines<\/strong> caught my eye: the first, for <strong>Fandom Playhouse<\/strong> talked up &#8220;the fantastic work of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/markchiarello.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mark Chiarello<\/a><\/strong>&#8221; &#8212; who at that time was an 18 year old kid with a dream; and the second for a fanzine called <strong>Grymalkin<\/strong> which featured the work of <strong>Neal Adams, Frank Frazetta, John Byrne, Mike Nasser, George Perez, Don McGregor<\/strong> and many others.\u00a0 [I may still have some of the art pages from it somewhere in the <strong>ZONE<\/strong> vault&#8230;]\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Grymalkin<\/strong> sold for the outrageous price of a buck-fifty postage paid.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Man, do I wish I had a time machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digging around in the ZONE vault and we find a Mike Zeck front piece for RBCC #145 from 1978. Mike<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[58,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3382","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\/3382","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=3382"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25346,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382\/revisions\/25346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}