{"id":22866,"date":"2014-10-16T05:38:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T10:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=22866"},"modified":"2014-10-13T09:48:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T14:48:20","slug":"cthulhu-abcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=22866","title":{"rendered":"Cthulhu ABCs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/dapperdeepone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/dapperdeepone-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"Dapper Deep One\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22867\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/dapperdeepone-300x246.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/dapperdeepone-150x123.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/dapperdeepone.jpg 789w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hate it when a Kickstarter campaign doesn&#8217;t heave into my purview until it&#8217;s too late to donate; I missed this one by a mile.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1263668863\/cthulhu-abcs\">Cthulhu ABCs<\/a> project was fully funded (and then some) clear back in May.  Artist <a href=\"http:\/\/kennonjames.com\/\">Kennon James<\/a> is creating a Lovecraft-inspired ABC book, described as &#8220;fully colored and gloriously high-detailed.&#8221;  I have to agree with the high-detailed part; the &#8220;D&#8221; illustration above (click to embiggen) has a zillion little awesome details, from the argyle socks on the Deep One to the wave pattern on the drapes.  I think my favorite bit is the unconcerned dog snoozing on the back of the chair.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the other pages will be:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A &#8211; Ambling Around Arkham, Abel Assesses Azathoth Actions<br \/>\nB &#8211; Byakee Boy Band Bellows Boohoo Ballads<br \/>\nF &#8211; Five Fanatical Fiddlers Flaunt Fabulous Felt Fezzes<br \/>\nR &#8211; Rats Rattle Relentlessly<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>James has set himself a goal of 18 months to have the book completed and shipped, so it&#8217;ll go out to backers around December of 2015.  I do hope it will eventually be available to people who didn&#8217;t back the Kickstarter because I plan to make it my standard baby shower gift.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Hat tip to pdq)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate it when a Kickstarter campaign doesn&#8217;t heave into my purview until it&#8217;s too late to donate; I missed this one by a mile. The Cthulhu ABCs project was fully funded (and then some) clear back in May. Artist Kennon James is creating a Lovecraft-inspired ABC book, described as &#8220;fully colored and gloriously high-detailed.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-needful-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22866"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22872,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22866\/revisions\/22872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}