{"id":3814,"date":"2009-11-22T14:10:14","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T18:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=3814"},"modified":"2009-11-22T14:10:14","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T18:10:14","slug":"sly-as-francesco-francavillas-black-beetle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=3814","title":{"rendered":"Sly as Francesco Francavilla&#8217;s Black Beetle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/imgs\/news\/2009\/nov\/112209blackbeetle_sly.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"707\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a fan of <strong>Francesco Francavilla&#8217;s art<\/strong>. Usually when<strong> Francesco<\/strong> releases a new sketchbook, he offers f<strong>ree &#8220;quick&#8221; sketches<\/strong> with each purchase.  My first piece from <strong>Francesco<\/strong> was <a href=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=1165\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sly from &#8220;Cop Land&#8221;<\/strong><\/a>.  My second quick sketch was in <strong>Francesco&#8217;s sketchbook of classic horror movie characters<\/strong> and for that sketch he did a <a href=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=1467\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>&#8220;Jack Carter&#8221; zombie<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My most recent <strong>Francesco sketchbook<\/strong> was dedicated to a character that <strong>Francesco<\/strong> created, <strong>&#8220;The Black Beetle&#8221;<\/strong>.  <strong>Francesco<\/strong> came up with the idea for my sketch &#8212; what would the <strong>Black Beetle<\/strong> look like if played in a movie by <strong>Sly Stallone<\/strong>.  LOL.  How could I not go with it?  <a href=\"http:\/\/pulpsunday.blogspot.com\/search?q=black+beetle\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>You can learn more about the Black Beetle here<\/strong><\/a>.   You can see more of <strong>Francesco&#8217;s art <a href=\"http:\/\/www.francescofrancavilla.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/francesco-francavilla.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/pulpsunday.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a fan of Francesco Francavilla&#8217;s art. Usually when Francesco releases a new sketchbook, he offers free &#8220;quick&#8221; sketches with<\/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":[58,17,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-celebs","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\/3814","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=3814"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18456,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions\/18456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}