{"id":42907,"date":"2026-10-22T07:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T11:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42907"},"modified":"2026-09-24T17:18:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T21:18:25","slug":"sly-stallone-is-rambo-by-mark-pennington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42907","title":{"rendered":"Sly Stallone is Rambo by Mark Pennington!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z102226rambo_headshot_pennington.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"664\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is the first sketch I ever got from Mark Pennington.\u00a0 It is, of course, Sly Stallone as Rambo.\u00a0 I got it way back in 2003 at either a MegaCon or Tampa Convention.\u00a0 I followed it up with an <a href=\"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=4487\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Old Man Jack Carter<\/a> and another <a href=\"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=4432\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rambo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/markpenningtonart\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Mark Pennington<\/strong><\/a> graduated from the <strong>Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art<\/strong> in <strong>1985<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Upon graduation <strong>Mark<\/strong> became a toy designer at Hasbro.<strong> Mark<\/strong> created designs for the <strong>G.I. Joe<\/strong> line of action figures including a <strong>Rocky Balboa GI Joe<\/strong> that never saw production! <strong>Mark&#8217;s first work<\/strong> as an <strong>inker<\/strong> in the comic book industry was for <strong>SQP<\/strong> on <strong>Judge Dredd<\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first sketch I ever got from Mark Pennington.\u00a0 It is, of course, Sly Stallone as Rambo.\u00a0 I<\/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":[58,17,56,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-celebs","category-comics","category-movies"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42907","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=42907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42908,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42907\/revisions\/42908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}