{"id":9007,"date":"2017-04-14T16:35:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T22:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=9007"},"modified":"2017-04-14T16:35:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T22:35:37","slug":"contribute-to-a-great-cause-get-yourself-a-great-comic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/14\/contribute-to-a-great-cause-get-yourself-a-great-comic\/","title":{"rendered":"Contribute to a Great Cause, Get Yourself a Great Comic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My long-time Loyal Readers may remember me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/2011\/11\/lament_for_bill_mantlo\/\">blogging<\/a> a couple years back about the writer Bill Mantlo, who single-handedly scripted the entire run of one of my favorite childhood comics, <em>The Micronauts,<\/em> as well as creating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/2014\/08\/rocket-raccoon-and-bill-mantlo\/\">Rocket Raccoon<\/a>, the crowd-favorite character from <em>Guardians of the Galaxy<\/em>. Briefly, Mantlo was an immense talent who was struck by a hit-and-run driver in 1992 and left in a tragically sad situation that continues to this day.<\/p>\n<p>Well, my pal <a href=\"http:\/\/byzantiumshores.blogspot.com\/\">Jaquandor<\/a> remembered, and yesterday he directed me to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/dynamiteent\/bill-mantlo-and-butch-guices-swords-of-the-swashbu\/\">Kickstarter campaign<\/a> he&#8217;d somehow run across. Dynamite Entertainment and Mantlo&#8217;s collaborator Butch Guice are raising funds to reprint another one of Mantlo&#8217;s projects, as well as contribute to his ongoing medical care. Here&#8217;s the promo video for it; take a look and consider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/dynamiteent\/bill-mantlo-and-butch-guices-swords-of-the-swashbu\/\">giving<\/a> what you can. I know I will&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/dynamiteent\/bill-mantlo-and-butch-guices-swords-of-the-swashbu\/widget\/video.html\" height=\"407.8125\" width=\"725\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My long-time Loyal Readers may remember me blogging a couple years back about the writer Bill Mantlo, who single-handedly scripted the entire run of one of my favorite childhood comics, The Micronauts, as well as creating Rocket Raccoon, the crowd-favorite character from Guardians of the Galaxy. Briefly, Mantlo was an immense talent who was struck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-bookshelf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}