{"id":3448,"date":"2009-08-30T19:11:26","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T23:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=3448"},"modified":"2009-08-30T19:11:26","modified_gmt":"2009-08-30T23:11:26","slug":"day-7-mike-zeck-week-at-the-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=3448","title":{"rendered":"Day 7: Mike Zeck Week at the ZONE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2009\/z083009ivey_zeck.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"282\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s <strong>DAY 7<\/strong> of <strong>MIKE ZECK WEEK<\/strong> <strong>at the<\/strong> <strong>ZONE<\/strong> and we&#8217;re going out with a bang. First up we have the photo above of my good buddies,<strong> Jim Ivey<\/strong> and <strong>Mike Zeck<\/strong>. My brother,<strong> John Beatty<\/strong>, forwarded it to me to share with fans. <strong>Beatty<\/strong> took it on a visit to<strong> Jim Ivey&#8217;s Cartoon Museum<\/strong> back around <strong>1992<\/strong> or <strong>1993<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2009\/z083009zeck.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Before we go to our final art for <strong>MIKE ZECK WEEK at the ZONE<\/strong>, I thought it would be fun to check out a self portrait that <strong>Mike<\/strong> drew\u00a0nearly <strong>35 years ago<\/strong>, along with a more recent photo of the man. [By the way, <strong>Mike<\/strong> is wearing his<strong> &#8220;Damned&#8221;<\/strong> shirt &#8212; from the excellent crime graphic novel written by<strong> Steven Grant<\/strong> and drawn by, you guessed it, <strong>Mr. Zeck<\/strong>, his own bad self].<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2009\/z083009zeck_bignot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"648\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Okay, for the last piece of <strong>Zeck<\/strong> art, I wanted something dramatic. I was tempted to go with\u00a0a piece\u00a0from <strong>Damned&#8230;<\/strong> or <strong>Captain America<\/strong>&#8230; or <strong>Master of Kung Fu<\/strong>&#8230; or his <strong>Spider-Man \/ Kraven<\/strong> graphic novel&#8230; or his work at <strong>DC<\/strong> on<strong> Batman<\/strong>&#8230; or <strong>Secret Wars<\/strong>&#8230; okay, I never really considered <strong>Secret Wars<\/strong> because I decided that the final page of the <strong>Punisher<\/strong> in the <strong>Return to Big Nothing<\/strong> graphic novel would provide a fitting end to M<strong>ike Zeck Week at the Zone<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Hope you think so too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s DAY 7 of MIKE ZECK WEEK at the ZONE and we&#8217;re going out with a bang. First up we<\/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-3448","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\/3448","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=3448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3449,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3448\/revisions\/3449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}