hmm well I'll defer to Evanier and claim I'm only half-right then (ie, drawing the cover, doing a rough draft, etc)
Spider-man does bear an uncanny resemblance to the Fly blah blah blah
― metally ill (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 22:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Happy 94th Birthday Mr Kirby
http://www.bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads//2011/08/thor-158-page18-kirby-original-art.jpg
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 28 August 2011 09:40 (twelve years ago) link
Lot's more great original Kirby pages here (nice to see Jack's pencil notes at the top of the Odin pic):
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 28 August 2011 09:43 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/GnMPF.jpg
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Sunday, 28 August 2011 09:48 (twelve years ago) link
Happy Birthday to the King!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6hX21EYFyY
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 28 August 2011 10:59 (twelve years ago) link
Love that pointy-hatted dude behind Odin. He looks MEAN.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Sunday, 28 August 2011 23:00 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=A1yJZKDwIRE
^^^interview w Jack Kirby on his 70th bday. amazingly, Stan Lee calls in at the end and they argue about who did what
― I can feel it in my spiritual hat (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 2 September 2011 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
also lol at Lee big upping Watchmen and Dark Knight (and uh John Byrne)
― I can feel it in my spiritual hat (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 2 September 2011 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
really y'all should listen to this, it's very illuminating and kind of heartbreaking
― I can feel it in my spiritual hat (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 2 September 2011 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
I can not relate how wonderful this is, and I'm only about a third through.
― Matt M., Saturday, 3 September 2011 02:18 (twelve years ago) link
pretty amazing interview
― thank got forks showed up (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 3 September 2011 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
I own a Kirby (and Royer) "Kamandi" page. I could seriously part with everything I own in a heartbeat but never my Kirby page.
― Vendo Caramelos A Veces Sin Dinero (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 3 September 2011 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
also touches briefly on Spiderman creation controversy
― I can feel it in my spiritual hat (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 5 September 2011 02:22 (twelve years ago) link
love that stan is all like "and i guess people will argue who did what forever"um motherfucker, the two of you are on the phone. TELL US
― thank got forks showed up (forksclovetofu), Monday, 5 September 2011 05:56 (twelve years ago) link
http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/426184_10150513246450834_127661820833_8941204_1439079736_n.jpg
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
Woah, that's just great. Where'd you find it?
― Matt M., Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
I got it from Brian Clevinger (the Atomic Robo guy) on twitter. He got it from novelist Adam Christopher. Not sure where it originated beyond that.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
That shot is so good that if it didn't exist, we'd have to make it up.
― Matt M., Wednesday, 15 February 2012 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
facebook'd btw
― little clouds of citrus spritz as i peel (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
aw!
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
Has anyone ever did a rough estimate of exactly how many comics Kirby did? Just with what he did at Marvel in the 60s FF-on has to be a couple of long boxes in itself.
― earlnash, Thursday, 16 February 2012 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
The first thing that popped into my head was "probably roughly 100 pages of pencils a month." From 1940 to 1976 or whenever he moved to animation, that would be 43,000+ pages JEEEEEZ.
― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Thursday, 16 February 2012 01:08 (twelve years ago) link
I doubt he kept up that pace the whole time, but still...
― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Thursday, 16 February 2012 01:10 (twelve years ago) link
kirby's most productive years as a penciller were, roughly, 1960-1978, when, for some of the time, he might've been pencilling close to 100 pages a month, if you include covers, promotional pieces, basic layouts for other artists etc. but that still strikes me as a slightly high estimate (kirby really only had two 'regular' comic books at marvel for most of the 60s, FF and Thor, tho' of course he started off most of their big titles before others took over.0 during the 40s kirby's career was interrupted by the war, and up to the mid-1950s he was running the simon-kirby shop with joe simon, so for a lot of that time he was working in a more piecemeal fashion - supplying roughs/layouts to be finished in the house style, collaborating with other pencillers, writing scripts etc etc - tho' the 'pure' kirby pages still tend to stand out, esp. when inked by simon himself. by the mid-1950s, and the downturn in the comic bk industry, kirby was actually struggling to keep himself busy - he was drawing less than a comic a month for DC, and so tried his hand at A newspaper strip, with fairly unhappy results. as we know that kirby could, if pushed, pencil an entire comic book in a weekend (as he did with the first issue of Pvt Strong) he was actually UNDER-productive for much of his career!
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 16 February 2012 05:25 (twelve years ago) link
oh, and great photo - never seen it before
Found this...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kirby_bibliography
Adding just the Marvel stuff in my head counting layout issues, I got like 515 issues there.
That is a whole lot of drawing.
― earlnash, Thursday, 16 February 2012 05:32 (twelve years ago) link
There are probably not too many if any artists in the whole Marvel history that more issues than Jack Kirby. 500+ issues is like doing one a month for 40 odd years.
I'd think John Buscema would maybe be the closest, as he usually had 2 titles going most of the time for years.
Sal Buscema would have worked on a ton too, although probably not as many pencils issues, as he did much more inking in the early days.
― earlnash, Thursday, 16 February 2012 05:39 (twelve years ago) link
i dunno, sal was a pretty regular penciller for marvel for 30 years plus (68-98), that's a lot of pages, maybe even more than kirby
jrjr must've drawn a lot of pages for marvel, by now
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 16 February 2012 08:52 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/XSmdV.jpg
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, 19 February 2012 03:03 (twelve years ago) link
Love how the Silver Age guys produced all their crazy trippy shit while constantly wearing sharp pinstripes.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Monday, 20 February 2012 01:18 (twelve years ago) link
http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2012/04/09/growing-up-kirby-the-marvel-memories-of-jack-kirbys-son/#/0
― Jilly Boel and the Eltones (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 12 April 2012 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
Best dad ever, sounds like.
― improvised explosive advice (WmC), Thursday, 12 April 2012 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
Really nice article here about Kirby Kollages, including lots of examples shot from the original art:
http://imprint.printmag.com/illustration/jack-kirby%E2%80%99s-collages-in-context/
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 19 April 2012 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
That's a nice article. Love that Metron piece.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 19 April 2012 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
Whoa! Those are amazing.
― Brad C., Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
never seen (or even heard of) those Spirit World ones. Days of the Mob I've seen referenced at least.
― Jilly Boel and the Eltones (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
Kirby Couture:
http://www.fashionising.com/runway/b--romance-was-born-aw-12-23407.html
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 30 April 2012 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
Yikes
― "in this super-sexy postracial age" (forksclovetofu), Monday, 30 April 2012 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
the one with the "cosmic energy" pants is, um, special.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 30 April 2012 20:00 (twelve years ago) link
if you look at expression on model's face, there's a subtle shift from aloof stoicsm to despairing claustrophobia between outfits.
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 30 April 2012 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
anybody got any opinions on Kirby's 70s Captain America run...? I am considering getting the big omnibus for father's day
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
I love a couple of the stories ("Madbomb" and "The Swine"), but there's about a years worth of filler in there as well. But you do get the first stories with Arnim Zola, maybe the last amazing WTF character Kirby created. And of course the artwork is top notch.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
It's prime stuff IMO. Besides the storylines EZ just mentioned there is the absolutely unforgettable energy being from the future that possesses a hollow-eyed corpse.
― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
I'm kinda torn between getting this or asking for the two Carl Barks'/Scrooge Fantagraphics books
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 22:51 (twelve years ago) link
There's only a Donald volume so far, first Scrooge comes out soonish but not sure if they'll make it to a second this year
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 00:10 (twelve years ago) link
hope that collection includes the all-original, all-fantastic 'Bicentennial Battles' Treasury, complete w/ Barry Windsor-Smith inks and this scene where Benjamin Franklin designs the American flag based on Captain America's costume:
http://www.littlestuffedbull.com/images/comics/capflag2.jpg
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 08:38 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ "There, MY MAN!"
ok I am totally getting this
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
Those Kirby CAPs are a treasure. How I wish *that* Captain America had showed up in THE AVENGERS.
― Matt M., Monday, 18 June 2012 03:57 (twelve years ago) link
from mark evanier's blog (and collection), an envelope sent by stan lee to jack kirby in 1968:
http://www.newsfromme.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/stanleeenvelope.jpg
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 26 July 2012 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjcuxSl991s
I don't know what to say.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 26 July 2012 20:11 (eleven years ago) link