{"id":4592,"date":"2010-07-02T01:04:56","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T05:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=4592"},"modified":"2010-07-02T11:08:17","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T15:08:17","slug":"heroes-con-2010-part-7-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=4592","title":{"rendered":"Heroes Con 2010, Part 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2010\/z07022010heroes_otis.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"495\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/otisframpton.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Otis Frampton<\/strong><\/a> getting ready for his close-up.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?s=otis&amp;search=Search\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Most regular ZONErs know Otis<\/strong><\/a> from my many posts about his <a href=\"http:\/\/otisframpton.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>7-7 Sundays<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2010\/z07022010heroes_sean.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"284\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seangordonmurphy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Gordon Murphy<\/a><\/strong> holding up the <strong>Rocky &amp; Butkus<\/strong> sketch that he did for me at the convention.\u00a0 I was really excited to get on <strong>Sean&#8217;s sketch list<\/strong> and even happier when I saw the end result.\u00a0 You know that I&#8217;ll post a scan of it in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2010\/z07022010heroes_waynesmith.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"356\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here we have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukosmith.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Wayne Osborne<\/strong> and <strong>Uko Smith<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 I&#8217;d never met either of these guys before.\u00a0 They were set up almost directly across from <strong>Big Beatty&#8217;s table<\/strong>.\u00a0 I noticed that <strong>Uko<\/strong> was the artist and <strong>Wayne<\/strong> just seemed to be hanging out at the table&#8230; sort of like I do with <strong>Beatty<\/strong>.\u00a0 Then I noticed that <strong>Wayne<\/strong> looked a bit like me (or is it that I look a bit like him?).<\/p>\n<p>So I told <strong>Beatty<\/strong>, &#8220;that artist brought his own <strong>Zablo<\/strong>&#8220;.\u00a0 <strong>Beatty<\/strong> looked across and did a double take.\u00a0 He got to chuckling.\u00a0 That&#8217;s when he noticed that <strong>Wayne<\/strong> saw him looking and laughing.\u00a0 So <strong>Wayne<\/strong> mouthed something that I won&#8217;t repeat.\u00a0 Now <strong>Beatty<\/strong> didn&#8217;t know what to do.\u00a0 He&#8217;d been caught making fun of a stranger, or at least it seemed that way.\u00a0 That&#8217;s when <strong>Big John<\/strong> realized who it was.<strong> John<\/strong> had met <strong>Wayne <\/strong>before years ago.\u00a0 <strong>Wayne<\/strong> didn&#8217;t think <strong>Beatty <\/strong>was talking about him, he was just being silly to get <strong>John&#8217;s attention<\/strong>.\u00a0 At any rate, it was pretty funny if you were there.<\/p>\n<p>Starting tomorrow, I&#8217;ll post some photos of some of the art that made it to the auction.\u00a0 Hope you&#8217;ll be back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s Otis Frampton getting ready for his close-up.\u00a0 Most regular ZONErs know Otis from my many posts about his 7-7<\/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-4592","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\/4592","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=4592"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4599,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4592\/revisions\/4599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}