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The Shivering Guy by Joe Williams<\/p><\/div>\n

This is a drawing I banged out for a propane ad a while back. I had forgotten all about it, but recently somebody emailed me regarding my cartoon and illustration work. It’s hard to see in this version,but I had snuck my website on this fellow’s left shoe. An eagle-eyed admirer spied it and was good enough to email me. I have to remember to sneak my website into everything I do!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a drawing I banged out for a propane ad a while back. I had forgotten all about it, but recently somebody emailed me regarding my cartoon and illustration work. It’s hard to see in this version,but I had … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[17,92,27,3661,5,94,93,3660],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illustration","tag-cartoon","tag-cold","tag-digital-illustration","tag-illustration","tag-joe-williams","tag-propane","tag-shiver","tag-willceau"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-fx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":91,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2009\/08\/04\/sweaty-eddie\/","url_meta":{"origin":963,"position":0},"title":"Sweaty Eddie","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"August 4, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been doing variations on this same panicked\/agitated\/junkie-in-need-of-a-fix guy for years. 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