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Brent Staples at the New York Times' Board blog writes about JackKirby, noting that he's never really gotten much credit for the heroes he helped introduce when they were adapted to the silver screen, including Iron Man. Staples gets it slightly inaccurate though about Kirby being the co-creator of Tony Stark - it was actually Don Heck who drew the premiere issue of Tales of Suspense...
References to The Prisoner in comics are many, but to my knowledge only two licensed Prisoner comics have been attempted: one, a four-part sequel by Dean Motter and Mark Askwith, published by DC in 1988-89; the other, an unpublished adaptation from Marvel Comics, written and drawn by none other than JackKirby! This unfinished, seventeen-page [...]
Comic and television writer Mark Evanier was once assistant to JackKirby. Now he's compiled a monumental art book cum biography of the artist called "Kirby: King of Comics." JackKirby's dynamic aesthetic style and new ideas about how comic book characters should relate to each other and to their readers revolutionized comics. Download This Show (MP3) Subscribe in...
Mark Evanier is that author of Kirby: King of Comics, a lavishly illustrated biography of comic book legend JackKirby. He also worked with Kirby in the 1960s and 70s.
Panel Borders: Remembering JackKirby part 2 Originally broadcast live 01/05/08 on Resonance 104.4 FM The second half of Alex Fitch’s conversation with Barry Forshaw, contributor to JackKirby Collector magazine and Mark Evanier author of JackKirby - King of comics. The show, originally recorded and transmitted live on Resonance FM, on the eve of the [...]...
Panel Borders: Remembering JackKirby part 1 Originally broadcast live 01/05/08 on Resonance 104.4 FM Alex Fitch talks to Barry Forshaw, contributor to JackKirby Collector magazine and Mark Evanier author of JackKirby - King of comics. The show is looking at the work of JackKirby on the eve of the release of the Iron [...]
CNN reports: The nickname was meant as a joke, a little needle from Marvel Comics mainstay Stan Lee to artist JackKirby. But more than a decade after Kirby's death, the name still fits: He is ‘The King.’ Follow the link to read the full story. [Click Here]
Diamond Select Toys has announced the next line of Minimate figures from Art Asylum features the original team (minus Thor) assembled for the first time. The Avengers #1 Minimates box set contains Iron Man in his original gold armor, the winged Wasp, the diminutive Ant-Man and the JackKirby-style Incredible Hulk. Even better, the set contains parts [...]
§ Mark Evanier discovers the New Yorker tributing/ripping off JackKirby in their cartoon contest. § Strange Adventures in New Brunswick, Canada had a flood on FCBD but they are trying again. § Matt Fraction is closing down his forum. § Million Dollar Idea is a new online novel by Gerard Jones and Will Jacobs, authors [...]
The New Yorker's JackKirby homage I like to think my IQ goes up every time I go to Jeff Trexler’s blog, where I found the above image. In the monthly caption contest that appears at the end of each issue of the New Yorker, artist Harry Bliss offers up a Kirby monster tribute. [...]
The New Yorker has an ongoing contest to write a caption to a cartoon. The current cartoon in need of a caption is by Harry Bliss and it's a riff on a comic book cover/page by Jack Kirby. Let's...
JackKirby once famously admonished (on a cover featuring Superman and the Guardian rushing toward the reader while bearing a photograph of Don Rickles): “Don't ask! Just buy it!” In that spirit I offer the following comic. Don't ask, just read it!
Kirby: King of Comics is a new art book / biography about JackKirby, the revolutionary and prolific comic book artist who helped create so many amazing characters in the Marvel and DC universes. I finally got my hands on a copy last week. Two things stand out about this book: 1) Appropriately, Kirby's story [...]
