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\"Zebulon-71\"<\/a>Zebulon The Wizard<\/strong><\/p>\n

Piscataway, NJ. Zebulon the Wizard (formerly Joey the Clown) was about as common as clowns come…but with a knack for burgling.\u00a0 He was the best: clever, adaptable, insightful – qualities still highly regarded by the clown community.\u00a0 Once a petty thief, Joey changed his stars by stealing a magical Christian spell book from a secret Vatican warehouse. With the recipes in his new book, he was able to build a ‘time cauldron’ through which he could reach forward – or back –\u00a0in time and steal more stuff…..better stuff.<\/p>\n

Zebulon let me use his cauldron a few times to document some of the great\u00a0 historic clowns from the deep, dark, misty past.\u00a0 Its how we know so much about Saint George the Clown (from 299 A.D.) and Barge the Giant (circa 1330).\u00a0 Zeb got me a Tubakazoo for Christmas last year, its a popular folk instrument from the year 2232.\u00a0 It makes a (terrible) whining wheeze like the sound of a horse being strangled…while gently farting (I got him that red wizard costume).<\/p>\n

***”Zebulon” is\u00a0a page that just got cut\u00a0from the latest draft of my new book\u00a0‘Bludgeon the Clown.’\u00a0 I’ve trimmed it down from 186 pages to 100, so I can keep production costs low enough to sell it to real people.\u00a0 I hope to have it published and ready to bring to Comic Cons in the spring.\u00a0 John and I thought it would be harder to cut our own beloved writing and art out…..turns out there was a lot of crap and fluff and redundancy in the older drafts.\u00a0 The new book is better now and Zebulon will work better in a different project.\u00a0\u00a0The image\u00a0was\u00a0originally a commission for a 2 page spread for an issue of Analog Magazine.\u00a0 -Marsha<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zebulon The Wizard Piscataway, NJ. Zebulon the Wizard (formerly Joey the Clown) was about as common as clowns come…but with a knack for burgling.\u00a0 He was the best: clever, adaptable, insightful – qualities still highly regarded by the clown community.\u00a0 Once a petty thief, Joey changed his stars by stealing a magical Christian spell book … Continue reading Zebulon the Wizard<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[125,150],"tags":[56,128,176,131,238],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}