Blog@Newsarama (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Like Jack Kirby? Like Nazi-killin’? Like Quentin Tarantino? Then check out this image from Superpouvoir: That’s right, some covers to Inglourious Basterds, Kirby-style. Over on CHUD, Martin Duhovic has claimed authorship for the images — no word yet if these covers are actually going to a real project. What do you think?
comiXtreme (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
found this after Harry Knowles' tweeted pictures of Jack Kirby-esque covers for a possible Inglorious Basterds comic book series. http://www.examiner.com/x-25720-Orlando-Pop-Culture-Examiner~y2009m11d15-Inglorious-basterds-comic-book
Blog@Newsarama (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
So that someone could spend a day of his life hastily assembling an Archie story filtered through Jack Kirby’s New Gods comics. That someone was Adam Prosser, and you can read his whole story in all its shouty, punch, funny hat-wearing glory here. (Thanks to Johanna Draper Carlson, from whom I totally, shamelessly stole [...]
Blog@Newsarama (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Sheldon L. Dorf’s drive and vision paved the way for the Comic-Con International in San Diego that we know today. As part of the tributes emerging for Shel Dorf is a Web site where his memory can be honored, celebrated and shared with everyone. The photo above of Jack Kirby and Shelf Dorf in 1969 is [...]
Slog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
I've written about this before , but it's getting very close now: The 33rd issue of McSweeney's is going to take the form of a Sunday newspaper titled The San Francisco Panorama : It'll have news (actual news, tied to the day it comes out) and sports and arts coverage, and comics (sixteen pages of glorious, full-color comics, from Chris Ware and Dan Clowes and Art Spiegelman and many others besides)...
Blog@Newsarama (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Marvel Masterworks: Fantastic Four vol. 3 Written & Illustrated by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby Published by Marvel Comics Man, I really appreciate that Marvel’s putting these old classic Marvel titles in affordable, quality editions. I appreciate why people like getting a giant chunk of story in the Essential or Showcase format, but I strongly prefer a color [...]
PvPonline.com - article (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
We have a new shirt design in our store. It’s for your comic book fans out there. The design was inspired by the Kirby estate’s recent decision to sue Marvel and Disney for their copyrights to the characters Jack Kirby co-created. You gotta keep your Kirby hand strong in this industry. Say it proud.
Comixpedia - Webcomic News & Views Daily (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Y'know how you look at a photograph, and get hit with the realization that it's a photograph that you'll always look back on and cherish? This is one of those photos. It's the Halfpixel crew, Kris Straub , Dave Kellett , me and Scott Kurtz , enjoying a cocktail before the Harvey Awards ceremony at the Baltimore Comic Con last Saturday night. For those of you scoring at home, that's (left to right)...
The Daily Cartoonist (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
This year’s Harvey Award winners have been announced. The Harvey Awards recognize outstanding achievements in over 20 categories, ranging from Best Artist to the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame. This years winners are: Best Writer – Grant Morrison, All-Star Superman, Dc Comics Best Artist – Gabriel Ba, Umbrella Academy, Dark Horse Comics Best Cartoonist – Al Jaffee, Tall [...]
Journalista (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
“Gil Kane, real name Eli Katz, in his early days an assistant to Jack Kirby (Kane on Kirby: ‘I think that he saw everybody as competition; that was the thing that finally dawned on me. It was Jack against the world.’), partly trained at New York’s School Of Industrial Art (now the High School of [...]
Blog@Newsarama (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Some thoughts on my latest borrowing from the New York Public Library: Okay, first, a little bit of comic book blasphemy: I really don’t like the Fantastic Four. (It’s not terribly surprising; they’re among the 99% of DC and Marvel’s pantheons that I’d say the same about.) The characters’ creators, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, authored [...]
THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
§ Oh Shaenon, why can’t I be you? The Patrick Swayze Manga Recommendation Guide. § Robot 6 calls this post “The comic Chris Ware doesn’t want you to see” and it is pretty hard to improve upon that description. What is the secret of…FLOYD FARLAND'?? § Geoff Boucher looks at Jack Kirby, the abandoned hero [...]
news from me (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Geoff Boucher takes a look at the collaboration of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby....
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
The heirs of Jack Kirby -- the comics legend who made Marvel what it is today -- are seeking to employ a little-used copyright rule that lets them wrest Kirby's creations away from Marvel (soon to be Disney-Marvel) and put them back under the estate's control. If they succeed, it will be awfully weird and deadlocked, though, as there will be trademarks covering the characters that still belong to Disney-Marvel;...
RightFielders (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
The heirs Jack Kirby estate is currently in the process of suing Marvel for the rights to the comic book characters he created. Read more about the story below. Heirs to the Jack Kirby estate have decided to take legal action, and sue in an attempt to take back copyrights to a few of the [...]
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