missed this when i saw argo:
http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0283442/
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 14 March 2013 22:21 (eleven years ago) link
I was looking for it, and amused that it was Parks
shame all the art was completely non-Kirby-esque and contrary to facts in all other ways too
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Thursday, 14 March 2013 22:51 (eleven years ago) link
http://cartoonsnap.blogspot.co.uk/2007/09/freaky-obscure-jack-kirby-comics-from.html
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 20:16 (ten years ago) link
very rad, this page in particularhttp://farm2.staticflickr.com/1161/1439534877_f9d81ece0c_b.jpg
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 20:20 (ten years ago) link
Wow Bob, wow!
― Matt M., Friday, 31 May 2013 00:11 (ten years ago) link
Kirby double-page spreads: http://www.flickr.com/photos/65185095@N00/sets/72157623444242645/
― WilliamC, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 01:34 (ten years ago) link
Those are amazing. This one is like 2000AD scorpion cover levels of thrillpower: http://www.flickr.com/photos/65185095@N00/4611056070/in/set-72157623444242645
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 15:50 (ten years ago) link
That giant dying cricket monster has amazing levels of pathos.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 14:08 (ten years ago) link
excellent
― Nhex, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 19:31 (ten years ago) link
totally breathtaking.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Thursday, 4 July 2013 20:55 (ten years ago) link
This link made my week. Thanks WilliamC!
― That elusive North American wood-ape (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 4 July 2013 21:29 (ten years ago) link
On a side note - one of the main things I enjoyed in the new Supes movie is how Kirbeyesque it is in places : the Krypton sets and costume designs, the-almost-too-much visceralness of the fight scenes, the extreme closeups of gritted teeth hero and villains. I think they beat the Marvel films (so far) in that regard.
― That elusive North American wood-ape (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 4 July 2013 21:33 (ten years ago) link
(though I love the Cap film for how close it stuck to the Simon/Kirby semse of surreal fun)
― That elusive North American wood-ape (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 4 July 2013 21:35 (ten years ago) link
i'm not really seeing the kirbyness of the superman movie. it seemed more like a sword and sworcery RPG. more elfquest than 4th world.
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 4 July 2013 21:40 (ten years ago) link
Yikes! Having never read Elfquest I can't say I see the similarities but...yeah...I saw Kirby in there.
― That elusive North American wood-ape (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 4 July 2013 21:43 (ten years ago) link
was there a screenshot in particular that evoked kirby for you?
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 4 July 2013 21:57 (ten years ago) link
No I don't have one handy but it's what I saw. Been a Kirby fan for many,many years if that helps.
― That elusive North American wood-ape (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 4 July 2013 23:23 (ten years ago) link
Don't see any Kirby in Man of Steel either, what partic Kirby comics are you thinking of?
Closest Jack came to doing any kind of science fiction movie design was prob the Lord of Light stuff
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jVk_kKrK-ks/UH-cXYwhptI/AAAAAAAAXAQ/3XFqWINtBBo/s1600/Image+(10).jpg
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 5 July 2013 07:46 (ten years ago) link
― That elusive North American wood-ape (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, July 4, 2013 4:29 PM
My pleasure! The hat-tip goes to Mark Evanier, who posted the link on his (recommended) blog.
― WilliamC, Saturday, 6 July 2013 02:39 (ten years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=570053796374487&set=a.109630362416835.4868.108944192485452&type=1&relevant_count=1&ref=nf
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 21:39 (ten years ago) link
looks like young kubrick
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 31 July 2013 23:19 (ten years ago) link
bought a copy of his autobiographical comic 'street code' at the kirby museum booth at comic-con. looks pretty great.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 1 August 2013 05:41 (ten years ago) link
did they do a mini or...? it's only an eight-pager
― a solitary sext (sic), Thursday, 1 August 2013 06:17 (ten years ago) link
i have it in that twomorrows streetwise anthology, but i think there was a (p scarce) magazine publication prior to that
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 1 August 2013 06:36 (ten years ago) link
yeah, it's just a mini. this is what i got:
http://kirbymuseum.org/jack-kirbys-street-code-at-mocca/
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 1 August 2013 07:05 (ten years ago) link
I have Streetwise too but that does look cool
― a solitary sext (sic), Thursday, 1 August 2013 14:08 (ten years ago) link
I just got the four Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus TPBs off of the EBay. They are pretty stylin'. I've read some of them, as I used to have a near full set of the New Gods and Mister Miracle both in my old collection, but it has been years since I read them all.
FYI, on that 1st Issue Special version of the New Gods, DC did do some other New Gods related comics in the later 70s. Steve Englehart and Marshall Rogers then Steve Gerber and Michael Golden did a few issues of Mister Miracle that are worth tracking down.
http://d1466nnw0ex81e.cloudfront.net/n_iv/600/1096071.jpg
― earlnash, Thursday, 1 August 2013 20:57 (ten years ago) link
Saw one of those gerber-golden issues on the diversions of the groovy kind blog awhile ago. Pretty weird
― joe schmoladoo from 7-11 (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 2 August 2013 06:28 (ten years ago) link
those post-kirby mister miracles are not gerber's finest hour (and englehart wrote some of them under an assumed name cos of editorial fuckery iirc)
that street code mini looks p sweet, gd score J.D.
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 2 August 2013 08:00 (ten years ago) link
Commission from Jack Kirby for Paul and Linda McCartney
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 3 August 2013 07:40 (ten years ago) link
didn't kirby do an album sleeve for wings or something?
― There shouldn't be a thread for Dennis Perrin tweets. (stevie), Saturday, 3 August 2013 09:10 (ten years ago) link
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2011/02/16/the-line-it-is-drawn-28-album-cover-homages/
― sassy, fun, and RELATABLE (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 3 August 2013 15:48 (ten years ago) link
Stevie ate you thinking of the mighty groundhogs sleeve by neal adams....?
― joe schmoladoo from 7-11 (Shakey Mo Collier), Sunday, 4 August 2013 00:02 (ten years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneto_and_Titanium_Man
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 4 August 2013 07:08 (ten years ago) link
Shakey - no, i think i was thinking of the photos of kirby drawings that were projected behind wings on the inner gatefold to the wings across america lp, which ward's link above refers to.
― There shouldn't be a thread for Dennis Perrin tweets. (stevie), Sunday, 4 August 2013 08:13 (ten years ago) link
though i never knew it was actually neal adams behind that ace groundhogs sleeve!
― There shouldn't be a thread for Dennis Perrin tweets. (stevie), Sunday, 4 August 2013 08:14 (ten years ago) link
new family page on Facebook with tons of photos:
https://www.facebook.com/kirby4heroes
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 4 August 2013 12:56 (ten years ago) link
KirbyGerber!
― OH MY GOD HE'S GOOGLY (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 20:37 (ten years ago) link
I finally got a copy of the softcover Kirby's Fourth World all four volumes. I'm into the latter part of the first one. It's really amazing and I love the reading order being as the issues come out. Going back and forth between the various comics really makes it read so much more EPIC!
Got to say I really love the printing that DC did on this one too, as that paper stock is quality but the texture is just right to print those old 70s colors but not have that total nasty glare that kinda ruins a lot of these period reprints. I like this paper better than the Marvel Masterwork pages, which look better than some of the bronze color reprints. I definitely think the Miller Daredevil, Byrne F4 and Simonson Thor looked as good to me in the modern reprints. This may be for two reasons: one, I know those issues and read them a couple of times on the original comics and two the new ones are just so bright.
This article on Barry Windsor-Smith is pretty cool on how the modern colors really change the look of some artwork. I don't think the modern colors look bad, but it totally changes the feel of the artwork. I suppose it could be a kin to pasting that digital new backgrounds on the earlier Star Wars movies.
http://comicsalliance.com/whatever-happened-to-barry-windsor-smith-in-the-comics-conversation/
― earlnash, Friday, 16 August 2013 03:45 (ten years ago) link
i have some love for BWS' art but jesus his writing is so bad.
― blinded by aggro (forksclovetofu), Friday, 16 August 2013 03:57 (ten years ago) link
good article earl
― Nhex, Friday, 16 August 2013 04:03 (ten years ago) link
I haven't really read any of BWS 90s comics. He did quite a few on the original Valiant run, if I recall. His comics are so visual, I think issues with his writing are probably dialog based I'd figure. The couple of X-men he did in the 80s were pretty good, but I mostly know him from the early 70s Marvel stuff. I love 70s Conan, it's some of my favorite comics.
― earlnash, Friday, 16 August 2013 05:16 (ten years ago) link
gary groth once compared bws' self-written comics for valiant to p g wodehouse!
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 16 August 2013 07:59 (ten years ago) link
Groth is insane then.
― blinded by aggro (forksclovetofu), Friday, 16 August 2013 12:06 (ten years ago) link
Happy Birthday Jack!
This is great.
― fit and working again, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 17:25 (ten years ago) link
thanks fit, that was a great read
i remember roy thomas saying that sometimes Lee would deliberately write 'against' kirby's pencils, so as not to be seen to be slavishly following jack's storytelling - but that article excellently demonstrates why Stan's choices were often the wrong ones
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 20:25 (ten years ago) link
that is the most exhaustive analysis of a single page I've ever read
― what's up ugly girls? (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 20:29 (ten years ago) link
fwiw, the spiegelman et al analysis of 'master race', reproduced at the link below along with the original strip, is p much the gold standard original for 'close reading' of comics pages/panels. the kirby piece is much less exhaustive, but as an act of footnoting its excellent:
http://www.michaelspornanimation.com/splog/?p=3185
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 21:24 (ten years ago) link
unfortunate url there
― what's up ugly girls? (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 21:50 (ten years ago) link
i think he really is called michael sporn
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 21:55 (ten years ago) link