{"id":45889,"date":"2025-09-09T08:09:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=45889"},"modified":"2025-09-09T10:13:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T14:13:39","slug":"when-does-the-band-go-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2025\/09\/09\/when-does-the-band-go-on\/","title":{"rendered":"When does the band go on?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here is another sketch from my developing Teenage Beast<\/em> story. The crowd awaits the arrival of Brian Bubonic and the Plague<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I drew this with sky blue<\/em> mechanical pencil leads and Sailor Fude De Mannen<\/em> fountain pens in a small UCreate<\/em> sketchbook by Ticonderoga. It takes ink surprisingly well and is far from the worst sketchbook I’ve ever purchased. The price is right and they are readily available at Target<\/em> as of this writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is another sketch from my developing Teenage Beast story. The crowd awaits the arrival of Brian Bubonic and the Plague. I drew this with sky blue mechanical pencil leads and Sailor Fude De Mannen fountain pens in a small … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":45714,"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":[4953,49],"tags":[33,158,6005,76,43,3661,5,23,4866,2143,25,5937,5913,480],"class_list":["post-45889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-doodle-tuesday","category-it-came-from-the-sketchbook","tag-1980s","tag-analog","tag-goo-goo-muck","tag-horror","tag-humor","tag-illustration","tag-joe-williams","tag-monster","tag-pen-and-ink","tag-punk","tag-sketchbook","tag-teenage-beast","tag-the-cramps","tag-usa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Awaiting-Brian-Bubonic.jpg?fit=640%2C448&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-bW9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":521,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2009\/10\/05\/teenage-beast\/","url_meta":{"origin":45889,"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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