{"id":854,"date":"2003-11-24T21:13:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-25T01:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=854"},"modified":"2021-11-28T13:28:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T18:28:20","slug":"meet-bill-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=854","title":{"rendered":"Meet Bill Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2003\/z112403black_americomics1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"764\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;\"><strong>Bill Black<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> has been <strong>publishing comics<\/strong> since <strong>1969<\/strong>. He&#8217;s <strong>outlasted<\/strong> every other<strong> independent comic company<\/strong> and is still going at it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong>Bill<\/strong> is best known for <strong>writing and drawing<\/strong> his own creations, but has also <strong>published the work<\/strong> of<strong> big name artists<\/strong> such as <strong>Mike Zeck, Dave Dorman, Dick Ayers, Erik Larsen, George Perez, Greg Horn, Jerry Ordway, Pat Broderick, Paul Gulacy<\/strong> and <strong>Wm. Michael Kaluta<\/strong> to name just a few. <strong> Bill<\/strong> even gave <strong>Big Beatty<\/strong> his <strong>first professional job in comics<\/strong>&#8230;<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n&#8230;and believe it or not <strong>Beatty <\/strong>pencilled, <strong>Jerry Ordway<\/strong> inked and I scripted a story which appeared in the comic above!<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Black has been publishing comics since 1969. He&#8217;s outlasted every other independent comic company and is still going at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[58,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-854","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\/854","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=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28581,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions\/28581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}