{"id":2253,"date":"2010-09-03T15:07:46","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T19:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2253"},"modified":"2010-09-03T15:07:46","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T19:07:46","slug":"the-mystic-yak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2253","title":{"rendered":"The Mystic Yak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, cartoonist\/teacher <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewwales.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Wales<\/a> was nice enough to send me a big stack of issues of his series, <em>Eclectic Comics<\/em>. I thoroughly enjoyed the books and am a bit ashamed that it&#8217;s taken me so long to drum up a &#8220;thank you&#8221; sketch to send his way.\u00a0 Here (with some very quick digital color) is my version of Andrew&#8217;s character, the Mystic Yak.\u00a0 In my version, I&#8217;ve cast him as Plato from the well-known Raphael fresco, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/EBchecked\/topic-art\/464109\/72958\/Plato-and-Aristotle-detail-from-School-of-Athens-fresco-by\" target=\"_blank\">The School of Athens<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Mystic_Yak.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2254\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?attachment_id=2254\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Mystic_Yak.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"650,890\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Mystic_Yak\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Mystic_Yak-219x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Mystic_Yak.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2254\" title=\"Mystic_Yak\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Mystic_Yak-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Mystic_Yak-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Mystic_Yak.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, cartoonist\/teacher Andrew Wales was nice enough to send me a big stack of issues of his series, Eclectic Comics. I thoroughly enjoyed the books and am a bit ashamed that it&#8217;s taken me so long to drum up a &#8220;thank you&#8221; sketch to send his way.\u00a0 Here (with some very quick digital &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2253\">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":[45],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-Al","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253"}],"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=2253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2255,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions\/2255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}