{"id":4726,"date":"2012-11-01T03:00:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T10:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/?p=4726"},"modified":"2012-10-29T06:42:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T13:42:25","slug":"famous-fanmail-135-john-layman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/famous-fanmail-135-john-layman\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous Fanmail #135 John Layman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"b18d58\">You may not be surprised to learn that most people in the comic business grew up reading comic books. However, you might be interested in knowing <em>what <\/em>they were reading. Here&#8217;s a look at &#8220;Famous Fanmail&#8221;!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Layman <\/strong>is a comics writer who&#8217;s created fun titles like <em>Bay City Jive <\/em>and <em>Puffed<\/em>. He&#8217;s also worked on other licensed properties like <em>Left Behind<\/em>, <em>Army of Darkness<\/em>, <em>Thundercats <\/em>and <em>Xena the Warrior Princess<\/em>. Aside from all that, he&#8217;s also known for creating a little something called <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chewcomic.blogspot.com\/\">Chew<\/a>. He got a letter printed in <em>the Micronauts <\/em>#48 (cover date \u2013 December 1982), recommending that the creative team get rid of some characters that he finds uninteresting.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blogimages\/micronauts-48-layman.jpg\" alt=\"Micronauts letters page with John Layman\"  title=\"Micronauts letters page with John Layman\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><u>On Ebay<\/u>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/stores.ebay.com\/CyberspaceComics__W0QQ_sacatZCyberspaceComicsQQ_sidZ13296653?_nkw=%22micronauts%22&#038;submit=Search&#038;LH_TitleDesc=1\">Micronauts<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/stores.ebay.com\/CyberspaceComics__W0QQ_sacatZCyberspaceComicsQQ_sidZ13296653?_nkw=%22john+layman%22&#038;submit=Search&#038;LH_TitleDesc=1\">John Layman<\/a><br \/>\n<u>On AtomicAvenue<\/u>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atomicavenue.com\/atomic\/SellerIssues.aspx?XT=1&amp;T=micronauts&amp;S=cyberspacecomics\" target=\"_blank\">Micronauts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may not be surprised to learn that most people in the comic business grew up reading comic books. However, you might be interested in knowing what they were reading. Here&#8217;s a look at &#8220;Famous Fanmail&#8221;! John Layman is a comics writer who&#8217;s created fun titles like Bay City Jive and Puffed. He&#8217;s also worked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-famous-fanmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4727,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4726\/revisions\/4727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}