{"id":4754,"date":"2010-12-28T06:45:50","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T11:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=4754"},"modified":"2010-12-27T01:01:30","modified_gmt":"2010-12-27T06:01:30","slug":"norman-rockwell-byrne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/28\/norman-rockwell-byrne\/","title":{"rendered":"Norman Rockwell Homage by John Byrne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Long-time readers of ONCE UPON A GEEK may recall I&#8217;m a big fan of <a title=\"Normal Rockwell at ONCE UPON A GEEK\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/tag\/norman-rockwell\/\" target=\"_blank\">Norman Rockwell<\/a>.\u00a0 My good buddy <a title=\"Ravenface&#039;s blog\" href=\"http:\/\/ravenface.livejournal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Ravenface<\/a> recently directed me to a wonderful Norman Rockwell tribute by John Byrne done in 2007.\u00a0 This is a homage to Rockwell&#8217;s famous <a title=\"Runaway by Norman Rockwell\" href=\"http:\/\/www.artchive.com\/artchive\/r\/rockwell\/rockwell_runaway.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Runaway&#8221;<\/a> painting.\u00a0 Check out the inked work below, and further down is a color version from <em>Back Issue<\/em> #38.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Normal Rockwell homage by John Byrne\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/rockwell_byrne.jpg\" alt=\"Normal Rockwell homage by John Byrne\" width=\"600\" height=\"869\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Back Issue #38 featuring Normal Rockwell homage by John Byrne\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/rockwell_byrne_backissue38.jpg\" alt=\"Back Issue #38 featuring Normal Rockwell homage by John Byrne\" width=\"500\" height=\"649\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p 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Here is a great interview about the models that Norman Rockwell used.\u00a0 It's from Growing Bolder.com.\u00a0 My thanks to Katy Widrick for pointing out this interview. \u00a0 \u00a0 If you can't watch the embedded video above, click here to watch the video.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":207,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/27\/happy-thanksgiving-to-the-geeks\/","url_meta":{"origin":4754,"position":1},"title":"Happy Thanksgiving To The Geeks!","date":"November 27, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Happy Thanksgiving to all of you here in the United States!\u00a0 For my international readers... sorry, our country is closed today for massive turkey consumption and tryptophan-induced comas.\u00a0 Come back tomorrow for the craziest shopping day of the year. Continuing my passion for Norman Rockwell... here is his 1943 \"Freedom\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Normal Rockwell's Thanksgiving","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/thanksgiving1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":36,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/15\/norman-rockwell-taxes\/","url_meta":{"origin":4754,"position":2},"title":"Norman Rockwell &#8220;Taxes&#8221;","date":"April 15, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"In honor of tax day here in the United States, I thought I would post one of my favorite Norman Rockwell images.\u00a0 It's called \"Taxes\", sometimes called \"Income Taxes\" or \"Beating the Deadline\".\u00a0 It was featured on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post on March 17, 1945. I'm a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Normal Rockwell Taxes","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/rockwell.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":82,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/05\/star-trek-comic-book-better-than-i-expected\/","url_meta":{"origin":4754,"position":3},"title":"John Byrne Star Trek comic &#8230; better than I expected","date":"June 5, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Surprisingly, John Byrne's recent comic book, \"Star Trek:\u00a0 Assignment Earth\" #1 was actually enjoyable.\u00a0 While I'm not a huge devotee of Star Trek TOS (\"The Original Series\" for those of you not in the know... geez), I do remember the episode \"Assignment: Earth\" with Gary Seven (Robert Lansing), Isis the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3846,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/22\/1987-at-dc-comics4\/","url_meta":{"origin":4754,"position":4},"title":"1987 at DC Comics: Flash, and the World of Krypton &#038; Smallville","date":"July 22, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"We\u2019re continuing our week-long look at old advertisements for DC Comics that began their run in 1987.\u00a0 What a great year 1987 was for DC Comics! So far this week we've looked at the Justice League, Dr. Fate, Amethyst, Suicide Squad, Checkmate, Doom Patrol, Green Arrow, and Young All-Stars.\u00a0 Today\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Flash by Mike Baron, Jackson Guice, and Larry Mahlstedt advertisement","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/87flash.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3252,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/23\/empire-strikes-back-by-miller-simonson-byrne-and-more\/","url_meta":{"origin":4754,"position":5},"title":"Empire Strikes Back by Miller, Simonson, Byrne, and more","date":"April 23, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back by Frank Miller, John Byrne, Terry Austin, Walt Simonson, Michael Golden, Fred Hembeck, Marie Severin, Marshall Rogers, Joe Jusko, and Bob Layton.\u00a0 Wow!\u00a0 How cool is that?!?!?\u00a0 Check it out below. 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