{"id":4687,"date":"2013-01-09T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T08:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/?p=4687"},"modified":"2013-01-09T08:00:44","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T08:00:44","slug":"great-capes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/2013\/01\/09\/great-capes\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Capes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Southern<\/p>\n

Paul Mason<\/a><\/p>\n

Tokyo-based Australian expat writer\/journalist Andrez Bergen<\/a> shares some of the interior art to his forthcoming novel, Who is Killing the Great Capes of Heropa?<\/strong> Andrez describes the book as a “futuristic\/retro superhero romp that mixes and matches 1930s Art Deco architectural lines with gung-ho Soviet formalist propaganda style, twisted into 1960s pop art sentiment and the huge influences of\u00a0Jack Kirby<\/b>. Think golden and silver age American comics channeled unto a dystopic future via Japanese manga, and then skewed by the ’60s comicbook legacy of Jack Kirby, along with Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, Jim Steranko and their ilk”<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Who is Killing the Great Capes of Heropa? <\/strong>is currently with the publisher and\u00a0<\/strong>Andrez’s previous novels, One Hundred years of Vicissitude<\/em> and Tobacco-stained Mountain Goat<\/em>, are available from the usual outlets. For more information about the comicbook influences behind the novel you can find articles by Andrez here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"MINOLTA<\/p>\n

Giovanni Ballati<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paul Mason Tokyo-based Australian expat writer\/journalist Andrez Bergen shares some of the interior art to his forthcoming novel, Who is Killing the Great Capes of Heropa? Andrez describes the book as a “futuristic\/retro superhero romp that mixes and matches 1930s Art Deco architectural lines with gung-ho Soviet formalist propaganda style, twisted into 1960s pop art […]<\/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":[17,176,346],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andrez-bergen","category-giovanni-ballati","category-paul-mason"],"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\/4687","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=4687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}