{"id":2079,"date":"2020-06-12T14:02:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T19:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikegrell.com\/news\/?p=2079"},"modified":"2020-06-12T14:02:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T19:02:06","slug":"for-immediate-release-denny-oneil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikegrell.com\/news\/?p=2079","title":{"rendered":"FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: DENNY O&#8217;NEIL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/mikegrell.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Denny-ONeil-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2081\" width=\"258\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikegrell.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Denny-ONeil-1.png 524w, https:\/\/mikegrell.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Denny-ONeil-1-250x300.png 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m still in shock from the news that Denny O&#8217;Neil has passed away. We were friends for almost fifty years and his death is a gut-punch that still has me reeling. He gave me my whole career, starting when I first read Green Lantern\/Green Arrow when I was in Saigon in 1970. His writing woke me up to what comics could really be and started me on this path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meeting him for the first time was an absolute thrill, and working with him was an ongoing education. I learned more about good writing by drawing the stories Denny wrote than all the English lit classes put together. Everything I&#8217;ve done can be traced back to Denny&#8217;s influence.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was honored to have the opportunity to work with him one last time for the Green Lantern 70th Anniversary book on a short story featuring Green Arrow that he wrote especially for me. I noticed that, in the last panel, he wrote the words: THE END.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right now all I can think of is how fortunate I was to have had him for a mentor, collaborator and friend.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was my hero.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8211;Mike Grell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still in shock from the news that Denny O&#8217;Neil has passed away. We were friends for almost fifty years and his death is a gut-punch that still has me reeling. He gave me my whole career, starting when I first read Green Lantern\/Green Arrow when I was in Saigon in 1970. His writing woke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikegrell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikegrell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikegrell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikegrell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikegrell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikegrell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2082,"href":"https:\/\/mikegrell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions\/2082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikegrell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikegrell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikegrell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}