{"id":521,"date":"2015-06-06T22:04:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-06T22:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gamemasters.com\/?p=521"},"modified":"2019-04-07T22:10:38","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T22:10:38","slug":"tourist-year-1-book-by-artist-t-kyle-gentry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamemasters.com\/?p=521","title":{"rendered":"Tourist! Year 1 \u2013 book by artist T. Kyle Gentry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p class=\"\"><em>Tourist! Year 1<\/em> \u2013 book by T. Kyle Gentry.<\/p>\n<p>What is it and do you want something <em>cool<\/em> and<em> free<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It\u2019s going to be a hardcover book in which this famous artist has crafted his skill to present some of the wacky and downright bizarre nature of random tourists that dwell within the various Orlando area theme parks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Sounds like one of those guys that does those caricatures, and what\u2019s this thing about <em>cool<\/em> and<em> free<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">No! caricatures are generally a likeness of a specific person.&nbsp; How better can I put this.. hmm\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">OH! Okay, when an animation company makes a movie (think of any of the various Disney, Pixar, Warner Brothers, etc companies that have compelling animated characters), they draw on inspiration from real people.&nbsp; THAT is what Kyle has done here.&nbsp; He has captured and created characters, in the form of tourists, and plugged them into this soon to be printed book. As for the <em>cool<\/em> and the <em>free<\/em>\u2026 I\u2019ll explain that in a moment\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Here, let him tell you exactly what <em>Tourist! Year 1<\/em> is:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160427025320if_\/https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/tkgentryart\/tourist-year-1-by-t-kyle-gentry\/widget\/video.html\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, this is a Kickstarter campaign!&nbsp; GameMasters LOVES Kickstarter, and we certainly LOVE this particular campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A looong time ago, I ask Kyle to do some artwork for me for this very site, Bob the Dragon was born.&nbsp; If you search around this website, you may very well run into him (Bob that is).&nbsp; Kyle has also done some illustrations for a couple of my zombie websites too.&nbsp; He and I go waay back.. to about the 10th grade..&nbsp; all the way back to the late 80\u2019s if my math is correct.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Basically it breaks down like this:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Go check out his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/tkgentryart\/tourist-year-1-by-t-kyle-gentry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kickstarter Campaign for Tourst! Year 1<\/a> and help make it a success.&nbsp; I mean c\u2019mon, with a title like that, you know he is going to have ideas for Year 2 and Year 3 and so on!<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Cool and Free:<\/p>\n<p>Okay, here it is, here is my contribution\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Cool:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Back in highschool, Kyle and I, had several adventures.&nbsp; Want to know some of those details?&nbsp; I\u2019ll share a couple but only AFTER his <a href=\"http:\/\/his%20kickstarter%20campaign%20of%20tourist!%20year%201%20is%20a%20success.\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kickstarter Campaign of Tourist! Year 1 <\/a>is a success.&nbsp; I\u2019ll add those adventures to the comments of this post.&nbsp; Trust me.. not even a handfull of people know what I know\u2026(don\u2019t kill me Kyle!)<\/p>\n<p>The Free:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">I have a signed copy of <em>Aliens &amp; Outlaws<\/em> (Kyle\u2019s first book) that will be given away to one of people who have liked our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GameMasterscom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GameMasters Facebook Page<\/a> or to one of my<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gamemasters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> GameMasters Twitter<\/a> followers.&nbsp; So you have 3 chances to get this book for free (well.. more if you go and help Kyle on his <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/tkgentryart\/tourist-year-1-by-t-kyle-gentry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kickstarter of Tourist! Year 1<\/a><\/em>).&nbsp; As with The Cool from above, this book will be given away AFTER his <a href=\"http:\/\/his%20kickstarter%20campaign%20of%20tourist!%20year%201%20is%20a%20success.\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kickstarter Campaign of Tourist! Year 1<\/a> is a success.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out and pledge what you can!&nbsp; I am!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/gamemasters.com\/?p=521\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tourist! Year 1 \u2013 book by T. Kyle Gentry. What is it and do you want something cool and free? It\u2019s going to be a hardcover book in which this famous artist has crafted his skill to present some of the wacky and downright bizarre nature of random tourists that dwell within the various Orlando&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"button small blue\" href=\"https:\/\/gamemasters.com\/?p=521\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geekery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gamemasters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/touristfeature.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamemasters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamemasters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamemasters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamemasters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamemasters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gamemasters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":524,"href":"https:\/\/gamemasters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamemasters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamemasters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamemasters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamemasters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}