{"id":1308,"date":"2009-01-22T19:10:46","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T23:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2009-07-07T14:56:37","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T18:56:37","slug":"pinup-alpha-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1308","title":{"rendered":"Pinup: Alpha Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nycomiccon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">New York Comic Con<\/a> is fast approaching.\u00a0 Alas, I&#8217;ll not be going in person; however the good folks from <a href=\"http:\/\/acosmicodyssey.com\/bentoorartil1.html\" target=\"_blank\">A Cosmic Odyssey<\/a>, who sell my original art work, will be attending.\u00a0 I sell at least a page or two of original art from my graphic novels at each &#8220;indie&#8221; convention, like SPX, but at big mainstream cons like Heroes Con in Charlotte, for example, I seem to have better luck with superhero stuff.\u00a0 Consequently, I try to drum up three or four superhero pinups&#8211;albeit, drawn in my rubber arm\/button eye style&#8211;to have on hand for events like that.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s one I just wrapped up&#8211;a pinup of the classic &#8217;80s John Byrne Alpha Flight:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"alpha_flight\" href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2009\/01\/alpha_flight.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1309 centered\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2009\/01\/alpha_flight.thumbnail.png\" alt=\"alpha_flight\" width=\"276\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Comic Con is fast approaching.\u00a0 Alas, I&#8217;ll not be going in person; however the good folks from A Cosmic Odyssey, who sell my original art work, will be attending.\u00a0 I sell at least a page or two of original art from my graphic novels at each &#8220;indie&#8221; convention, like SPX, but at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1308\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"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,"footnotes":"","_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,45,26],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-l6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1700,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions\/1700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}