Let's talk about Jack Kirby

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LOL, that's awesome

growing up in publix (morrisp), Monday, 24 September 2018 22:27 (five years ago) link

five months pass...

https://www.inverse.com/article/53550-black-panther-2019-oscars-means-wakanda-won-not-the-movie

The first victory on Sunday night belonged to Carter, who won Best Costume Design. “Marvel may have created the first black superhero,” she said in her speech, “but through costume design, we turned him into an African king.”

i mean... sure, the initial design is a bit clunky but the basic visual elements are still very much recognizable. i get that t'challa's been reimagined for a new era and part of that era is not genuflecting too hard toward a guy who had a tendency to call the character "a black", but I do find it unnecessary to write kirby completely out of the process when much of his core visual identity was already (often excellently!) retro co-opted by an array of afrofuturist artists long prior to the movie!

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 16:09 (five years ago) link

The article you linked to seems to acknowledge Kirby (and Lee) pretty extensively, though(?)

yuh yuh (morrisp), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 21:19 (five years ago) link

Sure, my beef is moreso with the costume/design team which i have never heard acknowledge kirby's input at all? I'm aware there was a concerted effort to truly Africanize the look and feel and I get that but Kirby is at the root and that's not something to be ashamed of.

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 21:24 (five years ago) link

three months pass...
two months pass...

https://i.imgur.com/pQ24sZG.png

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 2 September 2019 11:48 (four years ago) link

four months pass...

that Lainie Kazan!

SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 01:22 (four years ago) link

Wish I could find the precise + persuasive illustration used in the comparison I saw the other day but (and perhaps I'm just the last person to be hipped to the notion) it seems not unlikely that Ben Grimm is modeled after Jack's father, Ben.

https://kirbymuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/19201.jpg

Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 01:35 (four years ago) link

Anyone read that Stuf' Said! book yet? With the chronological interview snippets from Lee & Kirby discussing who created what at Marvel (and which apparently and unsurprisingly favors Kirby)? Curious if anything new or interesting was revealed.

Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 01:39 (four years ago) link

one month passes...

Jack Kirby left Marvel 50 years ago. pic.twitter.com/axYHfshGmO

— Sean Howe (@louchelarue) March 6, 2020

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 6 March 2020 20:40 (four years ago) link

my first reaction - "in 1950? is that right?"

my second reaction - "oh god how did it become 2020 already"

Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Friday, 6 March 2020 22:00 (four years ago) link

I had this comic as a kid; wish I still did. I remember it was pretty weird.

https://pm1.narvii.com/6672/447dd72c6ad54ef179bc8e6f8033308af0408bc0_00.jpg

Panic! At The Costco (morrisp), Sunday, 8 March 2020 06:36 (four years ago) link


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