{"id":115,"date":"2008-11-14T17:21:30","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T17:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chestercomix.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/14\/a-run-to-roanoke\/"},"modified":"2013-04-15T14:08:14","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T19:08:14","slug":"a-run-to-roanoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/a-run-to-roanoke\/","title":{"rendered":"A Run to Roanoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/roanokefair1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-114\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/roanokefair1-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/roanokefair1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/roanokefair1.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The days after Barack Obama was elected to the presidency were an interesting time to hang out with urban students in Roanoke, Virginia. I had to design an Obama caricature in a hurry!!! Made me wistful for my political cartooning days . . .<\/p>\n<p>But it felt good to add that breath of fresh air. Drawing Frederick Douglass endorsing Obama was just plain FUN (the contrast in their hair was the best!). I do tweak my presentation over the years &#8212; I&#8217;ve added new words, new ideas and new twists to the standard drawings I do in my &#8220;chalk talks.&#8221; But it&#8217;s all built on a simple idea that has been around since vaudeville days: the magic that appears as a guy brainstorms ideas with an audience and brings those ideas to form.<\/p>\n<p>Plus the silly hat . . .<\/p>\n<p>During my talk at Fairview Elementary in Roanoke, the 200 students brought pencils and paper to the cafeteria. I think it&#8217;s cool that they drew as I drew and we brainstormed together. I got some great renditions of Chester at the end of my talk. I don&#8217;t ask them to draw him, but Chester has proven the test of time to be an appealing and simply-formed character &#8212; like Snoopy or Mickey Mouse. I love seeing the variations that kids come up with!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The days after Barack Obama was elected to the presidency were an interesting time to hang out with urban students in Roanoke, Virginia. I had to design an Obama caricature in a hurry!!! Made me wistful for my political cartooning &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/a-run-to-roanoke\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1399,"href":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/1399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}