{"id":700,"date":"2002-07-27T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-27T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=700"},"modified":"2023-02-09T17:39:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T22:39:52","slug":"nice-to-be-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=700","title":{"rendered":"Bob McLeod &#038; John Beatty Let Me Know It&#8217;s Nice to be Wanted"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2002\/z072702hex_zablo.png\" width=\"301\" height=\"440\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Usually it&#8217;s nice to feel wanted.<\/p>\n<p>So what do you think about the drawing of me on the wanted poster with <strong>Jonah Hex<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The piece I wrote about me being drawn in a comic with <strong>Superman<\/strong> struck a cord with many of you. I received several requests to see more. Well, let me say that attending the Man of Steel&#8217;s wedding was a breeze compared to my appearance with a certain <strong>DC<\/strong> comics gunslinger&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>John Beatty<\/strong> commissioned <strong>Bob McLeod<\/strong> to do a painting [reprinted to the left] based on an idea from <strong>Mike Zeck<\/strong>. <strong>Big Beatty<\/strong> thought it would be funny if my face was on the wanted poster and <strong>Bob<\/strong> agreed. The rest is history.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Bob McLeod<\/strong> [probably best known for being co-creator of <strong>The New Mutants <\/strong>for <strong>Marvel<\/strong> comics] is available for commissions. Bob is a first rate artist who can draw well in a number of different styles.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, usually it&#8217;s nice to feel wanted&#8230; unless you&#8217;re wanted dead or alive!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually it&#8217;s nice to feel wanted. So what do you think about the drawing of me on the wanted poster<\/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-700","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\/700","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=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31810,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions\/31810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}