{"id":39222,"date":"2022-10-07T07:58:27","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T11:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=39222"},"modified":"2022-10-08T09:11:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T13:11:37","slug":"cosmic-maaaaaannnnn-returns-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/10\/07\/cosmic-maaaaaannnnn-returns-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic Maaaaaannnnn Returns Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The Return of Cosmic Maaaaannnn!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/52407934565\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52407934565_7f281c1d7e_z.jpg?resize=640%2C328&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Return of Cosmic Maaaaannnn!\" width=\"640\" height=\"328\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><em>Cosmic Maaaaaannnn<\/em> has returned to celebrate my darling wife&#8217;s birthday! We first met this star traveler during our <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/10\/19\/15-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crystal anniversary<\/a> and again on Tina&#8217;s birthday <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/10\/07\/happy-birthday-tina-the-2012-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ten years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Happy birthday, Tina!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cosmic Maaaaaannnn has returned to celebrate my darling wife&#8217;s birthday! We first met this star traveler during our crystal anniversary and again on Tina&#8217;s birthday ten years ago. Happy birthday, Tina! &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,7,700],"tags":[3981,3639,4914,17,5469,1994,325,32,906,5],"class_list":["post-39222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drawer-cards","category-illustration","category-pixels-versus-pigment","tag-affinitydesigner","tag-affinity-photo","tag-affinity-publisher","tag-cartoon","tag-cartoon-hippie","tag-counterculture","tag-digital","tag-hippie","tag-ink","tag-joe-williams"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-acC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46058,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2025\/10\/07\/you-cant-keep-a-good-spacefaring-hippie-down\/","url_meta":{"origin":39222,"position":0},"title":"You Can&#8217;t Keep a Good Spacefaring Hippie Down!","author":"Joe","date":"October 7, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Drifting through the starry void, he felt as one with the cosmos. It was utter harmony and contentment. His shaggy hair floated weightlessly about him, catching glints of light from distant nebula. 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It's more personal and making your own cards is a lot cheaper than a Hallmark card from one of the drugstore chains. Have you priced them recently?! Ouch! We\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Drawer Cards&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Drawer Cards","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/drawer-cards\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Cosmic-Man-detail-2023.jpg?fit=640%2C519&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Cosmic-Man-detail-2023.jpg?fit=640%2C519&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Cosmic-Man-detail-2023.jpg?fit=640%2C519&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":43957,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/10\/19\/amethysts-and-orchids\/","url_meta":{"origin":39222,"position":2},"title":"Amethysts and Orchids","author":"Joe","date":"October 19, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"In the event of birthdays, anniversaries and a few other holidays, Tina and I exchange cards we make for one another.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Drawer Cards&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Drawer Cards","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/drawer-cards\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/JW-28TH-ANNIVERSARY.jpg?fit=850%2C850&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/JW-28TH-ANNIVERSARY.jpg?fit=850%2C850&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/JW-28TH-ANNIVERSARY.jpg?fit=850%2C850&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/JW-28TH-ANNIVERSARY.jpg?fit=850%2C850&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4777,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/10\/20\/cosmic-maaaannnnnn\/","url_meta":{"origin":39222,"position":3},"title":"Cosmic, Maaaannnnnn!","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"October 20, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"A war wages within me between traditionally and digitally inking my cartoons. I go back and forth between my pens and brushes and my Wacom tablet. It depends on the job, my mood or whatever is close at hand. Cosmic, Man was inked traditionally. I must admit that I had\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Drawer Cards&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Drawer Cards","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/drawer-cards\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/tie-dye.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/tie-dye.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/tie-dye.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":39260,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/10\/12\/leaning-towards-pigments\/","url_meta":{"origin":39222,"position":4},"title":"It&#8217;s Pixels Versus Pigments, Again","author":"Joe","date":"October 12, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The late, great Dan Love was a good friend and a technological guru who pushed me kicking and screaming into new computers and gadgets I never realized I needed until I started to use them. He was passionate about computers and cameras and constantly upgraded his toys and offered his\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Illustration&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Illustration","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/illustration\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"space hippie","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/cosmic-man-inks.jpg?fit=640%2C707&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/cosmic-man-inks.jpg?fit=640%2C707&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/cosmic-man-inks.jpg?fit=640%2C707&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4769,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/10\/19\/15-years\/","url_meta":{"origin":39222,"position":5},"title":"15 Years","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"October 19, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Fifteen years ago on a similarly rainy day, before a gathering of family, friends and a priest who had buried most of the gangsters in South Philly, Tina and I got hitched! 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