{"id":7606,"date":"2009-04-12T10:16:58","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T14:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=7606"},"modified":"2021-03-21T16:42:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T20:42:04","slug":"chris-lopez-fx-countdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=7606","title":{"rendered":"Chris Lopez &#038; FX Countdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/imgs\/news\/2009\/apr\/040912lopez_lords.png\" width=\"475\" height=\"561\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Today&#8217;s Stallone sketch is by <strong>Chris Lopez<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0I love his work, but <strong>Chris&#8217; website<\/strong> disappeared years ago and unfortunately I have no idea what happened to him.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Chris Lopez<\/strong> is a very talented artist who used to run <strong>SpaceBop.com<\/strong>. I sent <strong>Chris<\/strong> an e-mail praising his work and the next day this digital sketch and explanation appeared in my e-mail:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>&#8220;The Lords of Flatbush is one of my favorite flicks. So I figured I&#8217;d do one of Stanley. I loved the scene with him in the pigeon coop, or when he goes to buy the engagement ring and gets pressured into buying the more expensive one. Oh yeah, swinging around 2 football helmets!!! Classic stuff.<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So anyway, here it is. I hope you like it. I really had fun doing it. I tried not to fall back on the stereotypical <strong>Sly caricature<\/strong> features (eyes, lip) and give him a more realistic approach.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That was about eight years ago. I lost track of <strong>Chris<\/strong> when <strong>SpaceBop.com<\/strong> went offline. [There is a site with the same name now, but it&#8217;s not <strong>Chris&#8217;<\/strong>.] Periodic searches for <strong>Chris<\/strong> on the internet haven&#8217;t turned him up.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe one of you know him??<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We&#8217;re less than a week away from <strong>FX<\/strong> and the fever is growing.\u00a0\u00a0I had breakfast yesterday with <strong>Big John Beatty<\/strong> [who else has a milkshake with a sausage &amp; cheese omelet?] and he&#8217;s ready to rock some sketches.\u00a0\u00a0LOL.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Mike Zeck<\/strong> is putting us up for the weekend.\u00a0\u00a0Too bad we can&#8217;t get <strong>Mike<\/strong> to join us for some <strong>FX<\/strong> fun.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Mike<\/strong>, like Bella [John&#8217;s wife] and <strong>Doralya<\/strong> [my wife] will probably enjoy the quiet while<strong> Beatty<\/strong> and I are at the show.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mood:<\/strong>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/e.deviantart.net\/emoticons\/moods\/neutral\/seasonal\/sunny_mood.gif\" \/>\u00a0Sunny Mood<\/li>\n<li><strong>Listening to:<\/strong>\u00a0Smiling Faces by The Undisputed Truth<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reading:<\/strong>\u00a0Patient Zero by Jonathon Mayberry<\/li>\n<li><strong>Watching:<\/strong>\u00a0Pitch Black<\/li>\n<li><strong>Playing:<\/strong>\u00a0Dead<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eating:<\/strong>\u00a0Easter Dinner soon!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Drinking:<\/strong>\u00a0Diet Coke<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Stallone sketch is by Chris Lopez.\u00a0\u00a0I love his work, but Chris&#8217; website disappeared years ago and unfortunately I have<\/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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[58,17,56,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-celebs","category-comics","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7606","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=7606"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26601,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7606\/revisions\/26601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}