{"id":456,"date":"2009-09-21T17:01:17","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T22:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=456"},"modified":"2019-11-25T16:02:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T21:02:55","slug":"grimly-fiendish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2009\/09\/21\/grimly-fiendish\/","title":{"rendered":"Grimly Fiendish"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ghouls\"<\/p>\n

I was rooting through my sketchbooks looking for old sketches that would have worked out for a Monkey & Bird<\/strong><\/em><\/a> idea, but of course, I got sidetracked.<\/p>\n

This is a drawing of a pair of ghouls as envisioned for a horror comic idea that never quite took wing. Ghouls being corpse eaters are not highly regarded in the supernatural realm. Being that they are the lowest of the low, I decided to make them the comic book geeks of the monster world. In the story idea they would deal in black market relics – trading remains of dead celebrities like trading cards. It sounds grim, but I was playing it for laughs.<\/p>\n

This was done all the way back in 1986 with a technical pen in a wire-bound sketchbook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was rooting through my sketchbooks looking for old sketches that would have worked out for a Monkey & Bird idea, but of course, I got sidetracked. This is a drawing of a pair of ghouls as envisioned for a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,49,16],"tags":[5,23,25,24],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","category-it-came-from-the-sketchbook","category-sketch","tag-joe-williams","tag-monster","tag-sketchbook","tag-technical-pen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-7m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":521,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2009\/10\/05\/teenage-beast\/","url_meta":{"origin":456,"position":0},"title":"Teenage Beast","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"October 5, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Another sketchbook variation of the Teenage Beast A.K.A. 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