{"id":1013,"date":"2006-07-02T11:17:06","date_gmt":"2006-07-02T16:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/hag-and-mope\/"},"modified":"2006-07-03T09:53:34","modified_gmt":"2006-07-03T14:53:34","slug":"hag-and-mope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/hag-and-mope","title":{"rendered":"Hag and Mope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Official VM buddy linked to this site as part of his entertaining and unofficial guide to  the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreporter.com\/index.php\/briefings\/commentary\/1379\/\" target=\"_blank\">annual Comic Con in San Diego<\/a>. He linked here in reference to a couple of drawings by Jaime Hernandez that I bought at Cons past. I won&#8217;t be at this year&#8217;s, but if I were to go, I&#8217;d see if Jaime had any drawings for sale of Ray D., Doyle and Speedy, to balance the three drawings of his women that I own.<\/p>\n<p>Without further ado, here are two of those drawings. I never got around to scanning my Penny Century drawing, but it&#8217;s a wonderful illo.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/images\/terry.jpg?w=525\"\/> <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/images\/maghope.jpg?w=525\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I wrote a bunch of posts last year from the Con, with plenty of pix and wacky observations. Here&#8217;s a list:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/walking-talking-gawking\/\" target=\"_blank\">July 15: Walking, Talking, Gawking<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/one-more-thing-2\/\">July 15: One More Thing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/rise-of-the-imperfects\/\">July 16: Rise of the Imperfects<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/pic-shas-2\/\">July 19: Pic-Shas<\/a> (includes some other San Diego stuff)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Official VM buddy linked to this site as part of his entertaining and unofficial guide to the annual Comic Con in San Diego. He linked here in reference to a couple of drawings by Jaime Hernandez that I bought at Cons past. I won&#8217;t be at this year&#8217;s, but if I were to go, I&#8217;d &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/hag-and-mope\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hag and Mope&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-literature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-gl","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4275,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/locas-locos","url_meta":{"origin":1013,"position":0},"title":"Locas &#038; Locos","author":"Gil","date":"August 1, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Anyone who's read Jaime Hernandez's Locas comics in Love & Rockets knows that the men take a back seat to the women in the cast. 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The heroic aspect was there, but he saw these guys for who they really were.\" Illustrator\/artist Joe Ciardiello returns\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/art"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/0F05EDA7-C351-4A05-8255-A13BC066DF19.jpeg?fit=1080%2C1080&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/0F05EDA7-C351-4A05-8255-A13BC066DF19.jpeg?fit=1080%2C1080&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/0F05EDA7-C351-4A05-8255-A13BC066DF19.jpeg?fit=1080%2C1080&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/0F05EDA7-C351-4A05-8255-A13BC066DF19.jpeg?fit=1080%2C1080&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/0F05EDA7-C351-4A05-8255-A13BC066DF19.jpeg?fit=1080%2C1080&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":15349,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-493-joe-ciardiello","url_meta":{"origin":1013,"position":4},"title":"Episode 493 &#8211; Joe Ciardiello","author":"Gil","date":"July 5, 2022","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 493: Joe Ciardiello - LIVE! \"A blank piece of paper is still the most intimidating thing.\" It's our first live episode since The Before Time! 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