{"id":34619,"date":"2025-12-26T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T09:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=34619"},"modified":"2025-12-23T17:55:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T17:55:35","slug":"34619","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2025\/12\/26\/34619\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>What are you doing here? Go do something better or at least more healthy. Read a book or say hello to a stranger. If you have any family you can stand, talk to them or at least their cat, dog, chicken or goat. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Still, as you\u2019re here&#8230; TODAY in 1921, the incredible and versatile <strong>John Severin<\/strong> was born and in 2004 the last episode of <strong>Steve Roper and Mike Nomad<\/strong> was published after beginning in 1936, courtesy of <strong>Allen Saunders <\/strong>&amp;<strong> Elmer Woggon<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>While we\u2019re here, TOMORROW &#8211; that\u2019s the 27<sup>th<\/sup> right? &#8211; Disney comics artis <strong>Jack Bradbury<\/strong> was born in 1914, followed in 1918 by the astounding <strong>John Celardo<\/strong>. You might recall his glorious <strong>Tarzan<\/strong> newspaper strip work, but did you know he also drew decades of DC\u2019s <strong>Martian Manhunter <em>J\u2019onn J\u2019onzz<\/em><\/strong>. You should check out <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2024\/08\/16\/showcase-presents-martian-manhunter-volume-1-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Showcase Presents Martian Manhunter volume 1<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Also pioneering cartoonist. editor and educator <strong>Joan Hilty<\/strong> was born in 1966.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are you doing here? Go do something better or at least more healthy. Read a book or say hello to a stranger. If you have any family you can stand, talk to them or at least their cat, dog, chicken or goat. Still, as you\u2019re here&#8230; TODAY in 1921, the incredible and versatile John &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2025\/12\/26\/34619\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-novels"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4AFj-34619","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34620,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34619\/revisions\/34620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}