{"id":986,"date":"2007-09-04T07:06:59","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T07:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=986"},"modified":"2007-09-04T07:12:26","modified_gmt":"2007-09-04T07:12:26","slug":"akira-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/09\/04\/akira-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Akira Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/akiraclub.jpg\" alt=\"Akira Club\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Katsuhiro Otomo<\/strong> (Titan Books)<br \/>\nISBN: 1-84576-612-1<\/p>\n<p>Originally published in Japan to commemorate the completion of the landmark graphic epic <strong>Akira<\/strong>, this spectacular art book collects every ancillary image that Katsuhiro Otomo created for the serial that\u00c2\u00a0didn&#8217;t make it into the trade paperback compilations.<\/p>\n<p>There are sketches, colour roughs, promotional posters and tee shirts, opening pages for the original Japanese serial episodes, various designs for characters and the tech that played such a pervasive part in the story, and every other thing you could think of to satisfy the dreams of fanatics.<\/p>\n<p>There are even recreations of some of the promotional gimmicks such as the Akira News Kiosk that have to be seen to be believed.<\/p>\n<p>If you love the series, or are fascinated by the secrets of the creative process, or are a sucker for minutiae, you will adore this lavish coffee table tome.<\/p>\n<p>English language translation \u00c2\u00a9 2007 Dark Horse Comics, Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 By Katsuhiro Otomo (Titan Books) ISBN: 1-84576-612-1 Originally published in Japan to commemorate the completion of the landmark graphic epic Akira, this spectacular art book collects every ancillary image that Katsuhiro Otomo created for the serial that\u00c2\u00a0didn&#8217;t make it into the trade paperback compilations. There are sketches, colour roughs, promotional posters and tee shirts, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/09\/04\/akira-club\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Akira Club&#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-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-fU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","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=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}