{"id":16141,"date":"2018-09-22T07:40:13","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T04:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=16141"},"modified":"2018-09-22T07:40:13","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T04:40:13","slug":"the-art-of-mike-ploog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/09\/22\/the-art-of-mike-ploog\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Mike Ploog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2C1ib4y\">The Art of Ploog<\/a><\/em> (2015), a comprehensive 9&#8243; x 12&#8243; retrospective of the career of a very fine comics artist, who mostly did weird and horror work with an very polished and recognisable style. Still in print, for now.  Many will remember Mike Ploog best for drawing <em>The Planet of the Apes<\/em>, <em>Man-Thing<\/em>, and his own <em>Weirdworld<\/em> in the 1970s for Marvel. Also for strips in <em>Heavy Metal<\/em> and <em>Epic<\/em> in the 1980s.  He was also a storyboarder for the likes of Carpenter&#8217;s <em>The Thing<\/em> and <em>The Dark Crystal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/weirdworld-original-art-ploog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/weirdworld-original-art-ploog.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"568\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-16142\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Original art from Marvel&#8217;s <em>Weirdworld<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Art of Ploog (2015), a comprehensive 9&#8243; x 12&#8243; retrospective of the career of a very fine comics artist, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/09\/22\/the-art-of-mike-ploog\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts","category-new-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}