{"id":1674,"date":"2011-09-18T19:29:25","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T00:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/?page_id=1674"},"modified":"2011-09-18T19:29:44","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T00:29:44","slug":"bill-hook","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/?page_id=1674","title":{"rendered":"Bill Hook"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Biography<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1651\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1651\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_2546.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1651\" title=\"IMG_2546\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_2546-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_2546-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_2546-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1651\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Hook at the 2011 Free State Comicon. (Click to enlarge.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bill Hook is an illustrator who does graphic design and cartooning in a staff position by day and a comics creator and freelance artist by night. His work has appeared in <em>Scary Monsters Magazine,<\/em> the <em>Kansas City Star<\/em>, and his self published books.<\/p>\n<p>He lives in in Topeka, Kansas, with his wife Pam and our son Deon. They also have four insane dogs that keep things interesting. &#8220;Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t tell the other dogs,&#8221; Hook said, &#8220;but our Boston terrier Dexter is my favorite.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He is an occasional podcaster, an avid comics reader, a toy collector, a guitar collector, a kaiju film fan, and a horror fan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am a firm believer in the potential of the comics medium and I love to sing its praises to everyone who will listen,&#8221; Hook said.<\/p>\n<h2>Links<\/h2>\n<address>Website:\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"Bill Hooks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.planetsparky.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.planetsparky.blogspot.com<\/a><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography Bill Hook is an illustrator who does graphic design and cartooning in a staff position by day and a comics creator and freelance artist by night. His work has appeared in Scary Monsters Magazine, the Kansas City Star, and his self published books. He lives in in Topeka, Kansas, with his wife Pam and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/?page_id=1674\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bill Hook&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1383,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1674","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1674\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}