{"id":1378,"date":"2014-01-17T08:39:22","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T16:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/?p=1378"},"modified":"2014-02-07T10:03:45","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T18:03:45","slug":"kristo-page-and-sketches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/2014\/kristo-page-and-sketches\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristo Page And Sketches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine, Alex Sheikman, is finishing up work on a new graphic novel that tells the story of the Count Of Monte Cristo but in Stalinist Russia.  The working title of the project is Kristo.  Alex and the writer, Sam Roads, funded the project using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/samroads\/kristo-graphic-novel\">Kickstarter<\/a>.  As part of that effort I pledged to get a page from it.  Here is the page that I chose and some sketches that Alex gave me for being such an ardent supporter.  If you want to check out more of Alex&#8217;s work here is a link to his <a href=\"http:\/\/sheikman.blogspot.com\/\">blogspot account<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/KristoDualPage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/KristoDualPage-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"Kristo Dual Page Spread\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/KristoDualPage-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/KristoDualPage-1024x662.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<b>Dual Page Spread From Kristo<\/b> &#8211; Shows his time in prison.  (Click on the image to get a larger version.)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/KristoSketchBaldGuy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/KristoSketchBaldGuy-183x300.jpg\" alt=\"Kristo Sketch - Bald Guy\" width=\"183\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/KristoSketchBaldGuy-183x300.jpg 183w, https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/KristoSketchBaldGuy-624x1024.jpg 624w, https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/KristoSketchBaldGuy.jpg 1208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<b>Sketch Used In Kristo<\/b> &#8211; Sketch that was used as a replacement for one of the pages.  (Click on the image to get a larger version.)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/KristoSketchFamilyPortraitNotUsed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/KristoSketchFamilyPortraitNotUsed-286x300.jpg\" alt=\"Kristo Sketch - Family Portrait\" width=\"286\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/KristoSketchFamilyPortraitNotUsed-286x300.jpg 286w, https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/KristoSketchFamilyPortraitNotUsed-977x1024.jpg 977w, https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/KristoSketchFamilyPortraitNotUsed.jpg 1206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<b>Sketch Not Used In Kristo<\/b> &#8211; Family portrait that needed to be redone for the book.  (Click on the image to get a larger version.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine, Alex Sheikman, is finishing up work on a new graphic novel that tells the story of the Count Of Monte Cristo but in Stalinist Russia. The working title of the project is Kristo. Alex and the writer, Sam Roads, funded the project using Kickstarter. As part of that effort I pledged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-reads","category-media-interests"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}