{"id":5311,"date":"2008-03-11T17:44:11","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T17:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=5311"},"modified":"2010-06-14T13:43:27","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T19:43:27","slug":"dave-stevens-1955-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2008\/03\/dave-stevens-1955-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Stevens 1955 &#8211; 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rocketeer_Adventure_Magazine_1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/images\/Rocketeer_Adventure_Magazine_1.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"621\" \/> <\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"blocked\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com\/comicbooks\/archives\/134020.asp?from=blog_last3\" class=\"external external_icon\">Dave Stevens, co creator of the Rocketeer <\/a>and the artist who helped bring <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:BettieThumbFairUse.jpg\" class=\"external external_icon\">Bettie Page <\/a>back in the spotlight passed away at the age of 52 due to complications with his battle with leukemia. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If, like me, you are unsure who <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dave_Stevens\" class=\"external external_icon\">Dave Stevens<\/a> was, think <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Rocketeer\" class=\"external external_icon\">The Rocketeer<\/a> comic(and later the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Rocketeer_%28film%29\" class=\"external external_icon\">quite decent movie of the same name<\/a>) and all will be explained.<\/p>\n<p>Heidi Macdonald at <a href=\"http:\/\/pwbeat.publishersweekly.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/11\/dave-stevens-1955-2008\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">The Beat remembers Stevens.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/archives\/2008_03_11.html#014911\" class=\"external external_icon\">Mark Evanier remembers Stevens.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twomorrows.com\/comicbookartist\/articles\/15stevens.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">Archived interview with Dave Stevens.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/pvponline\/statuses\/770051558\" class=\"external external_icon\">pvponline tweet<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davestevens.com\/html\/main.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">dave stevens web site<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Stevens, co creator of the Rocketeer and the artist who helped bring Bettie Page back in the spotlight passed away at the age of 52 due to complications with his battle with leukemia. If, like me, you are unsure who Dave Stevens was, think The Rocketeer comic(and later the quite decent movie of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,47,29],"tags":[4938,2473,259,2474],"class_list":["post-5311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-interviews","category-people-who-died","tag-artist","tag-dave-stevens","tag-sad-now","tag-the-rocketeer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11525,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5311\/revisions\/11525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}