{"id":5099,"date":"2012-07-22T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=5099"},"modified":"2012-07-22T00:10:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T05:10:09","slug":"parody-comic-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/22\/parody-comic-portrait\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Your Own Parody Comic Book Portrait!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Artist <a title=\"Billy Penn on Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/billy.penn.5\" target=\"_blank\">Billy Penn<\/a> (<em>Hot Shot &amp; Mighty Girl<\/em>, <em>Savage Dragon<\/em>) is currently running a special on Parody Comic Book Portraits! Click the advertisement below to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/ParodyPortraitAd.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Parody Comic Book Portraits by Billy Penn\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/ParodyPortraitAd_s.jpg\" alt=\"Parody Comic Book Portraits by Billy Penn\" width=\"620\" height=\"958\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For Father&#8217;s Day 2009, my wife commissioned Billy to draw a parody comic book cover featuring me. Billy created the brilliant homage to <em>Flash<\/em> #123 (Sept. 1961) you see in the upper left-hand corner of the ad above. For the complete story on that commission, check out the original post on <a title=\"Greatest Father's Day Geek-Gift Ever - Shag of Two Eras\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/2009\/06\/22\/the-greatest-fathers-day-geek-gift-ever\/\" target=\"_blank\">ONCE UPON A GEEK<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Billy does amazing work and is super-nice! 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