{"id":553,"date":"2010-06-02T07:42:47","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T14:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/?p=553"},"modified":"2010-06-02T07:42:47","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T14:42:47","slug":"before-they-were-stars-5-eric-powell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/before-they-were-stars-5-eric-powell\/","title":{"rendered":"Before They Were Stars #5 Eric Powell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"b18d58\">Not every comic writer or artist starts at the top, working on books like Batman or X-Men. In fact, most don&#8217;t even start at Marvel or DC. Here&#8217;s a look at some work by comic book creators &#8230; before they were stars.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blogimages\/best-cellars-1.jpg\" align=\"left\"><strong>Eric Powell <\/strong>has gained prominence in the comic industry mostly due to his creator-owned work, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegoon.com\" target=\"_blank\"><em>the Goon<\/em><\/a>. The Goon began publication in 1999 from <a target=\"_blank\"  href=\"http:\/\/stores.ebay.com\/CyberspaceComics_Avatar-Press_W0QQ_fsubZ19879053QQ_sidZ13296653QQ_trksidZp4634Q2ec0Q2em322\">Avatar Press<\/a> and then later moved to <a href=\"http:\/\/stores.ebay.com\/CyberspaceComics_Dark-Horse-Comics_W0QQ_fsubZ19879008QQ_sidZ13296653QQ_trksidZp4634Q2ec0Q2em322\" target=\"_blank\">Dark Horse Comics<\/a>, where it&#8217;s still published today. But, years before the first issue came out, <strong>Eric Powell <\/strong>(at the age of 20) debuted a Goon prototype called <strong>Monster Boy <\/strong>in the anthology book, <em>Best Cellars<\/em>, which was published by <strong>Out of the Cellar Comics <\/strong>in 1995.<\/p>\n<p><u>On Ebay<\/u>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/stores.ebay.com\/CyberspaceComics__W0QQ_sacatZCyberspaceComicsQQ_sidZ13296653?_nkw=%22eric+powell%22&#038;submit=Search&#038;LH_TitleDesc=1\">Eric Powell<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/stores.ebay.com\/CyberspaceComics__W0QQ_sacatZCyberspaceComicsQQ_sidZ13296653?_nkw=%22goon%22&#038;submit=Search&#038;LH_TitleDesc=1\">Goon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not every comic writer or artist starts at the top, working on books like Batman or X-Men. In fact, most don&#8217;t even start at Marvel or DC. Here&#8217;s a look at some work by comic book creators &#8230; before they were stars. Eric Powell has gained prominence in the comic industry mostly due to his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-before-they-were-comic-book-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","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=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":638,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions\/638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}