{"id":4658,"date":"2024-12-31T09:24:49","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T17:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=4658"},"modified":"2024-12-31T09:24:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T17:24:49","slug":"bye-bye-bongo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=4658","title":{"rendered":"Bye Bye Bongo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbot.com\/bootlegsketch\/halflifeweb.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: hand; width: 640px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbot.com\/bootlegsketch\/halflifeweb.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>After 27(!) years I am no longer with Bongo Comics\u2014this news is actually several months old, but I held off posting about it until the last of my work with them was printed. So that\u2019s a wrap for me on bulgy eyeballs and overbites!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I started at Bongo many (many) moons ago as an intern in college, became a production assistant, then a staff artist, and finally an art director. In my tenure at this job, between comics, collections, foreign editions, exclusives, calendars, and miscellaneous books, I drew something in the neighborhood of *<strong>500<\/strong>* covers.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My career with Bongo covered well over half my life, and literally has been my entire adult life. I\u2019m well aware that this kind of run with one company is not a common story these days, and I\u2019m very grateful that I got this experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I came up with the rough idea for this drawing a few years back when I realized I had been on the job for (at the time) half my life. Just wanted a bizarre way to illustrate my career versus my influences\/favorites. It had been on the backburner for a bit, but this seemed like a good time to finally finish it and mark the end of an era!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Excited for the next chapter\u2026&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 27(!) years I am no longer with Bongo Comics\u2014this news is actually several months old, but I held off posting about it until the last of my work with them was printed. So that\u2019s a wrap for me on bulgy eyeballs and overbites!&nbsp; I started at Bongo many (many) moons ago as an intern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ego-raging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4659,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658\/revisions\/4659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}