{"id":395,"date":"2006-12-20T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=395"},"modified":"2006-12-20T14:05:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-20T14:05:00","slug":"when-bad-things-happen-to-good-drawings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=395","title":{"rendered":"When bad things happen to good drawings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/bandv-758264.jpg\"><img style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/bandv-755848.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Archie Comics has decided to &#8220;update&#8221; the look of Betty and Veronica. While I&#8217;m sure this is viewed as a great idea, in execution it is quite a poor one. Dan DeCarlo&#8217;s drawings have been the source for these american icons for years &#8211; well since the mid sixties. I feel DeCarlo&#8217;s drawings have always set the standard and basis of style for a number of comics &#8211; from the Hernandez brothers (Love and Rockets) to the newish Disney stuff. Increasingly the older drawing style works in both a &#8220;High&#8221; and &#8220;Low&#8221; style, this might be due to its more iconic approach &#8211; less like a young persons take on what they might look like. I guess its like seeing a movie made of a book or comic you have known forever. And hating it.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway. this is not the usual artblog stuff, but I thought it was worth noting. By the way, the new issue is on the left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archie Comics has decided to &#8220;update&#8221; the look of Betty and Veronica. While I&#8217;m sure this is viewed as a great idea, in execution it is quite a poor one. Dan DeCarlo&#8217;s drawings have been the source for these american icons for years &#8211; well since the mid sixties. I feel DeCarlo&#8217;s drawings have always set the standard and basis of style for a number of comics &#8211; from the Hernandez brothers (Love and Rockets) to the newish Disney stuff. Increasingly the older drawing style works in both a &#8220;High&#8221; and &#8220;Low&#8221; style, this might be due to its more&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=395\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When bad things happen to good drawings<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[123,132,145,171],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}