{"id":692,"date":"2007-02-04T15:47:36","date_gmt":"2007-02-04T15:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/simonandkirby\/archives\/692"},"modified":"2007-02-04T15:47:36","modified_gmt":"2007-02-04T15:47:36","slug":"ben-oda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/simonandkirby\/archives\/692","title":{"rendered":"Ben Oda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/simonandkirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2007\/02\/OdaBenCar.jpg\" alt=\"Ben Oda\" title=\"Ben Oda\" id=\"image690\" \/><br \/>\nBen Oda<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of comic book blogs and I do not have much spare time. So I probably have visited only a small fraction of them. I have taken a clue from Google and check out blogs and web pages that link to me. I figure I might find something interesting from someone who has found something in my blog. Well one such link was from Brian Hayes&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/hayfamzone.blogspot.com\">The Hayfamzone Blog<\/a>. While going though his archives I came across his post <a href=\"http:\/\/hayfamzone.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/great-ben-oda.html\">The Great Ben Oda<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well it is just great to see someone write about Ben Oda. As Brian says, Ben Oda worked many years for Simon and Kirby. There is not much more I can\u00a0add to that but I thought I would share a couple of photographs. The one above shows Ben in his car. Ben was a hard worker but judging from his car I would say he did quite nicely. Joe Simon once told me how proud Ben was about his car. The photograph below shows Nishi Oda (Ben&#8217;s wife), Harriet Simon (Joe&#8217;s wife) and Ben. Joe once told me that Nishi also did lettering.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/simonandkirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2007\/02\/OdaNishi.jpg\" alt=\"Nishi Oda, Harriet Simon and Ben Oda\" title=\"Nishi Oda, Harriet Simon and Ben Oda\" id=\"image691\" \/><br \/>\nNishi Oda, Harriet Simon and Ben Oda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Oda There are a lot of comic book blogs and I do not have much spare time. So I probably have visited only a small fraction of them. I have taken a clue from Google and check out blogs and web pages that link to me. I figure I might find something interesting from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,3,36,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-87","category-artists","category-oda-ben","category-z-archive"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3uriT-ba","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/simonandkirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/simonandkirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/simonandkirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/simonandkirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/simonandkirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/simonandkirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/simonandkirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/simonandkirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/simonandkirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}