{"id":42356,"date":"2026-08-01T19:29:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T23:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42356"},"modified":"2026-08-01T19:29:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T23:29:52","slug":"sly-stallone-is-jack-carter-by-david-lapham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42356","title":{"rendered":"Sly Stallone is Jack Carter by David Lapham!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z080126carter_lapham.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"703\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">David Lapham is an Eisner Award-winning\u200b comic book creator best known for his independent crime series <em>Stray Bullets<\/em>.\u00a0 When Lapham offered a headsketch special, I thought he&#8217;d be a great choice to draw Sly Stallone as Jack Carter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lapham&#8217;s response was immediate and positive.\u00a0 So much so that I asked about a second sketch &#8211; Sly as Rocky Balboa.\u00a0 Lampham again quickly responded that he was up for it.\u00a0 I immediately sent a paypal for the amount requested and a few bucks more.\u00a0 He emailed a &#8220;thank you&#8221; and that was the last I heard from him for four years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Every so often, for the first couple of years, I sent an e-mail to see if he was okay or going to do the sketches.\u00a0 No response ever came back.\u00a0 Then in February of this year, I was surprised to get an e-mail from Mr. Lapham apologizing for his lack of communication.\u00a0 He said that he wanted to get the art to me.\u00a0 This week (six months later) the sketches arrived.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what the hold-up was.\u00a0 I&#8217;m just happy to have the sketches and hope Mr. Lapham is doing well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Lapham is an Eisner Award-winning\u200b comic book creator best known for his independent crime series Stray Bullets.\u00a0 When Lapham<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[58,17,56,51,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-celebs","category-comics","category-crime","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42356","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=42356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42357,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42356\/revisions\/42357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}