Tag Archive | "Jack Kirby"

Young Romance…

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

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Since it’s Valentine’s Day and we’re in the mood for some lurve, how about this classic cover art borrowed from the newly published Young Romance: Simon & Kirby’s 1940s – 50s Romance Comics from Fantagraphics. Sure, we could have had something more swooningly romantic, but as this just hit the shelves last week it seems [...]

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Kirby covers Amazing Fantasy #15

Thursday, December 22, 2011

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The Kirby Museum blog posts this cool Kirby reworking of his (pencil work) and Ditko’s (inking) original, iconic Amazing Fantasy #15 cover for Marvel (above), the issue that introduced the web-slinger to the swinging 60s; the new version (below) is pencilled again by Kirby, this time inked by Martin Lasick. Lovely, clear, strong, bold image… [...]

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Fourth World and Flowers

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

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On racks tomorrow for New Comic Day, a great big serving of the Cosmic Jack Kirby’s Fourth World from DC. Oh yeah… … and there’s a lovely, big deluxe hardback collection of Bill Willingham’s tales from the brilliant Fables, Bad Doings and Big Ideas: And I notice the new editions of Neil Gaiman’s superlative Sandman [...]

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A buck for Jack

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

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Nat Gertler has come up with an interesting way to help out a little around the ongoing legal tussle between Marvel and the heirs of the great Jack Kirby – rather than advocating one position or the other, or a boycott or anything of that nature Nat has set up the A Buck For Jack [...]

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Happy 94th Jack….

Sunday, August 28, 2011

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Today would have been the 94th birthday of Jack Kirby (1917-1994) He co-created so much of the Marvel Universe, yet still remains uncredited for it, unacknowledged by Marvel/Disney. It would be lovely to think that we wouldn’t be in this position by this time next year. We know that legally, Kirby and his heirs are [...]

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Kirby appeal (unsurprisingly) goes ahead….

Friday, August 19, 2011

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“We respectfully disagree with the court’s ruling and intend to appeal this matter to the Second Circuit” That was the Kirby estate’s lawyer Marc Toberoff’s statement to The Hollywood Reporter. Not a surprise. (Via Blog at Newsarama) Basically the Kirby estate wants some element of fairness to come out in this, some definitive word that Jack Kirby [...]

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Brandon Graham (amongst others) redraws FF #9 – UPDATED

Saturday, August 13, 2011

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Oh my word. Brandon Graham (Via Robot 6) posts up the staggeringly great results of a commission to redraw a page of Fantastic Four #9 (that’s the Fantastic Four as co-created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee). This page: And here’s Brandon Graham’s version: Very, very cool. And then he lets slip that it’s not just a [...]

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Bissette on “co-creation”, Kirby, Ditko, Marvel and Stan Lee….

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

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Steve Bissette’s wise words on the recent jack Kirby issues (see here) are now leading to an exploration into what it means to be a creator or co-creator of a character. Using the examples of the characters that were created for the Image 1963 series, where writer Alan Moore, and artists Rick Veitch, Bissette and [...]

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Kirby – The Comics Journal follows up….

Friday, August 5, 2011

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Earlier this week, The Comics Journal posted their thoughts on the recent judgement in the US preventing the Jack Kirby Estate from going to trial to challenge marvel Comic’s ownership of Kirby’s characters. As you might expect it’s somewhat essential reading for anyone with an interest in comics: Some legal observers were expecting Marvel to [...]

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Kirby and Marvel – Steve Bissette has an idea…..

Monday, August 1, 2011

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Last week the courts in the US ruled that Jack Kirby’s Estate have no claim on any of the characters Kirby created under work for hire agreements at Marvel. Quick reminder, just some of those characters include: The Fantastic Four, Thor, Captain America, The Hulk, The Silver Surfer, The X-Men, The Black Panther…. and we [...]

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Cosmos and Cosmic, Kirby meets Sagan

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

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(Cosmos and Sagan in Kirby style by and (c) Kyle Latino) As regular readers know, as well as being a comics and SF geek I’m also a lifelong space geek. And one of the formative influences on me as a kid was the fabulous science series Cosmos by the late and much missed Carl Sagan. [...]

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Tumblr-ing along …. more of them:

Sunday, January 23, 2011

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Yep, more Tumblrs dedicated to a single artist/writer. Not new, just things I stumbled over this week…. joining Moore, Morrison, Ellis and Kevin Church’s long-running Daily Batman we have…. Jack Kirby at “Fuck Yeah Kirby!“. That’s one of two of Kirby’s interpretations of God. Moebius at Quenched Conciousness (Via Heidi)

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Comic Book Cartography

Sunday, April 18, 2010

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(Baxter Building cutaway detail from FF Annual 3, art by Jack Kirby) Comic Book Cartography. A blog full of vintage maps, diagrams and cutaways, it’s been all over the Internet thing this week, but just in case you haven’t seen it, we wanted to show you this and point you in the right direction. (vis [...]

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Zappa and Kirby – sub-cultural coolness overload

Thursday, October 15, 2009

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Frank Zappa with Jack Kirby; on the Coolometer (invented Prof Farnsworth) that rates so many megafonzies its off the scale. Its cooler than a polar bear bathing in liquid nitrogen. Two of the greatest artists in two of the great modern sub-cultures – comics and music. Wow. You may have come across this already this [...]

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