{"id":3622,"date":"2011-09-01T22:53:48","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T21:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/?p=3622"},"modified":"2011-09-01T22:53:48","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T21:53:48","slug":"geek-tragedies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/2011\/09\/01\/geek-tragedies\/","title":{"rendered":"Geek Tragedies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Classic Kirby covers parodied by <a href=\"http:\/\/nekid-monkey.deviantart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Josel Nicolas<\/a> (art) and <strong>Adam David<\/strong> (colour &amp; design) to accompany <strong>Carljoe Javier<\/strong>\u2019s book of short stories, <strong>Geek Tragedies<\/strong>. The book is a mixture of <em>\u201crealist fiction, fantasy, sci-fi, and horror &#8230;zombies, alien-hands, comic book geeks, convention-attending promo girls and an iPod time machine\u201d<\/em>. You can find out more about the book and the creation of these covers\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wasaaak.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/pekpecha-kuchikucha-more-than-few-words.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/wasaaak.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/various-design-elements-for-carljoe.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <strong>Geek Tragedies<\/strong> is available for Kindle via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Geek-Tragedies-ebook\/dp\/B0055T44YE\/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1310004510&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/GEEK-cover-01.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3620\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/2011\/09\/01\/geek-tragedies\/geek-cover-01\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/GEEK-cover-01.png\" data-orig-size=\"427,640\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"GEEK-cover-01\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/GEEK-cover-01-200x300.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/GEEK-cover-01.png\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3620\" title=\"GEEK-cover-01\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/GEEK-cover-01.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/GEEK-cover-01.png 427w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/GEEK-cover-01-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/GEEK-05.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3618\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/2011\/09\/01\/geek-tragedies\/geek-05\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/GEEK-05.png\" data-orig-size=\"427,640\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"GEEK-05\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/GEEK-05-200x300.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/GEEK-05.png\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3618\" title=\"GEEK-05\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/GEEK-05.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/GEEK-05.png 427w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/GEEK-05-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/GEEK-06.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3619\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/2011\/09\/01\/geek-tragedies\/geek-06\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/GEEK-06.gif\" data-orig-size=\"500,750\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"GEEK-06\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/GEEK-06-200x300.gif\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/GEEK-06.gif\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3619\" title=\"GEEK-06\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/GEEK-06.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Original covers below by Kirby, Ayers and Sinnott.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/00-cover-ff.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3616\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/2011\/09\/01\/geek-tragedies\/00-cover-ff\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/00-cover-ff.gif\" data-orig-size=\"500,749\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"00-cover-ff\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/00-cover-ff-200x300.gif\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/00-cover-ff.gif\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3616\" title=\"00-cover-ff\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/00-cover-ff-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/06-fantastic-four-doctor-doom.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3621\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/2011\/09\/01\/geek-tragedies\/06-fantastic-four-doctor-doom\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/06-fantastic-four-doctor-doom.gif\" data-orig-size=\"500,745\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"06-fantastic-four-doctor-doom\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/06-fantastic-four-doctor-doom-201x300.gif\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/06-fantastic-four-doctor-doom.gif\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3621\" title=\"06-fantastic-four-doctor-doom\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/06-fantastic-four-doctor-doom-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/05-ff-galactus.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3617\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/2011\/09\/01\/geek-tragedies\/05-ff-galactus\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/05-ff-galactus.gif\" data-orig-size=\"500,750\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"05-ff-galactus\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/05-ff-galactus-200x300.gif\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/05-ff-galactus.gif\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3617\" title=\"05-ff-galactus\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/05-ff-galactus-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classic Kirby covers parodied by Josel Nicolas (art) and Adam David (colour &amp; design) to accompany Carljoe Javier\u2019s book of short stories, Geek Tragedies. The book is a mixture of \u201crealist fiction, fantasy, sci-fi, and horror &#8230;zombies, alien-hands, comic book geeks, convention-attending promo girls and an iPod time machine\u201d. You can find out more about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,150,208,241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-david","category-fantastic-four","category-jack-kirby","category-josel-nicolas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}