{"id":461,"date":"2009-09-22T02:23:23","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T07:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=461"},"modified":"2019-11-25T16:02:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T21:02:56","slug":"punk-with-a-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2009\/09\/22\/punk-with-a-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"Punk with a Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Punk with a Gun by Joe Williams<\/p><\/div>\n

Sometimes I come across a sketch and have no idea what it was for or what I was aiming at. Such is the case with this punk with a gun. I just thought it was kind of neat so here it is, faithful readers!<\/p>\n

Done back in 1986 with pencil, brush and ink in a wire-bound sketchbook (I have a lot of them.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes I come across a sketch and have no idea what it was for or what I was aiming at. Such is the case with this punk with a gun. I just thought it was kind of neat so here … 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":[49],"tags":[17,3661,5,3663,25],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-came-from-the-sketchbook","tag-cartoon","tag-illustration","tag-joe-williams","tag-sketch","tag-sketchbook"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-7r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46763,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2025\/12\/31\/the-last-of-2025\/","url_meta":{"origin":461,"position":0},"title":"The Last of 2025","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"December 31, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"I figured I would wind up the year with another drawing of the Teenage Beast. 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