{"id":2004,"date":"2010-11-13T07:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:19:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:19:40","slug":"meet-artist-wes-hartman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2010\/11\/13\/meet-artist-wes-hartman\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Artist: Wes Hartman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_F_I2jb9dIrA\/TN4xvw3WPQI\/AAAAAAAAA38\/Mxupkt_SfGs\/s1600\/IMG_1289.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IMG_1289.jpg\" width=\"239\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Early in my publishing efforts, I realized I needed good cover art for my novels. &nbsp;So, I sent out a call to everyone I knew asking for help. &nbsp;Scott Cupp, replied with an email pointing me to his nephew Wes Hartman and shortly we began exchanging email. &nbsp;Wes is with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antarctic-press.com\/\">Antarctic Press<\/a> in San Antonio. &nbsp;His first effort was the cover for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wirerimbooks.com\/WRB\/EmperorDad.html\">Emperor Dad<\/a>, and then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wirerimbooks.com\/WRB\/LighterThanAir.html\">Lighter Than Air<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wirerimbooks.com\/WRB\/FallingBakward.html\">Falling Bakward<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wirerimbooks.com\/WRB\/GoldenGirl.html\">Golden Girl<\/a>. &nbsp;I&#8217;ll probably have him do the cover for the upcoming Bearing Northeast as well.<\/p>\n<p>So after four covers, and numerous emails over the course of the past three years, I was hoping that I&#8217;d get to finally meet the guy. &nbsp;I follow the company&#8217;s twitter stream and sure enough, it mentioned that Wes was likely to be here for the Austin Comic Con.<\/p>\n<p>We shook hands and I got to see what he looked like. &nbsp;(I also picked up an autographed copy of his Sky Sharks.) &nbsp;If you get a chance, drop by his booth #503 and meet him yourself while he&#8217;s here in town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early in my publishing efforts, I realized I needed good cover art for my novels. &nbsp;So, I sent out a call to everyone I knew asking for help. &nbsp;Scott Cupp, replied with an email pointing me to his nephew Wes Hartman and shortly we began exchanging email. &nbsp;Wes is with Antarctic Press in San Antonio.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2010\/11\/13\/meet-artist-wes-hartman\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meet the Artist: Wes Hartman<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,12],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IMG_1289.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-wk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2006,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions\/2006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}