{"id":1524,"date":"2007-12-02T14:02:23","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T14:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2007-12-02T14:02:40","modified_gmt":"2007-12-02T14:02:40","slug":"the-last-cat-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/12\/02\/the-last-cat-book\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Cat Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/the-last-cat-book.jpg\" alt=\"The Last Cat Book\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Robert E Howard<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Peter Kuper<\/strong> (Dodd, Mead &amp; Co 1984)<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0ISBN: 0-396-08370-6<\/p>\n<p>This quirky little tour-de-force reprints Howard&#8217;s<em> &#8216;The Beast from the Abyss&#8217;<\/em>; an essay on the value and nature of cats, originally published in <strong>The Howard Collector<\/strong> in 1971, but with each page created as a design and illustration exercise by seminal creator and cutting edge comics pioneer Peter Kuper.<\/p>\n<p>The combination of Howard&#8217;s terse, dark prose style with the iconoclastic and left-field sensibilities of Kuper presented here in the form of 49 stark and hysterical lino-cut (think wood-cuts but without the splinters) prints make this a frankly startling addition to the plethora of cat&#8217;n&#8217;cartoon books out there. I just wish this one still was. Still, it would be a fairly inexpensive book to reprint\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>An absolute hoot from two artists not usually noted for a broad sense of humour.<\/p>\n<p>Text \u00c2\u00a9 1971 Glenn Lord. Illustrations \u00c2\u00a9 1984 Peter Kuper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert E Howard &amp; Peter Kuper (Dodd, Mead &amp; Co 1984) \u00c2\u00a0ISBN: 0-396-08370-6 This quirky little tour-de-force reprints Howard&#8217;s &#8216;The Beast from the Abyss&#8217;; an essay on the value and nature of cats, originally published in The Howard Collector in 1971, but with each page created as a design and illustration exercise by seminal creator &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/12\/02\/the-last-cat-book\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Last Cat Book&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-oA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}