{"id":93,"date":"2005-08-13T15:09:02","date_gmt":"2005-08-13T19:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/hgr\/?p=93"},"modified":"2005-08-13T15:09:02","modified_gmt":"2005-08-13T19:09:02","slug":"stanley-sketches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/13\/stanley-sketches\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanley Sketches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I dug these out and scanned them this weekend for the excellent Yahoo Group <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/johnstanleycomixgenius\/\">JohnStanleyComixGenius<\/a>, and might as well share them here: Here are two sketches that John Stanley did for me in 1976 at Newcon in Boston. I was 12 at the time; Stanley was at his first (and almost only) comics convention appearance.<\/p>\n<p>In the top drawing, Lulu is sticking her tongue out at Stanley.<\/p>\n<p>I felt lucky to get them at the time; 29 years later, I feel luckier still to still have them. The best con sketches I ever snagged, no question.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"stanley1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/blog\/archives\/stanley1.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"stanley2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/blog\/archives\/stanley2.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"515\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I dug these out and scanned them this weekend for the excellent Yahoo Group JohnStanleyComixGenius, and might as well share them here: Here are two sketches that John Stanley did for me in 1976 at Newcon in Boston. I was 12 at the time; Stanley was at his first (and almost only) comics convention appearance. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/13\/stanley-sketches\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stanley Sketches&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}