We’re sorry to report that our Walking Tour guide, Museum Founder Rand Hoppe is not feeling well and will not be able to host the tour on the Monday, the 28th. However, he should be fine in a week on Monday, September 4th, so we’re re-scheduling until then at 6:00pm.
Details remain much the same:
Starting at 6:00 pm at the corner of Delancey and Essex Streets, we’ll make our way to Kirby’s birthplace, then to the location of his boyhood home, and will end at the location of the boy’s club that was instrumental to his upbringing. If you’ve attended the tour in the past, an exciting new location will be added!
At each stop, we will share stories and facts about Jack Kirby’s life on the Lower East Side and engage in some friendly Q&A about his work and career. There will also be a guerrilla street theater reading of his autobiographical story Street Code near where he grew up, and (new!) trivia questions with prizes! Check our website or social feeds for more information as the date gets closer.
This is a free, non-ticketed event. Donations welcome! Show up and celebrate with us!
The tour will last approximately 90 minutes with a walking distance of less than a mile. The tour will be livestreamed! Again, more details as we get closer.
What: Jack Kirby LES Walking Tour When: Monday, September 4th, 6:00-7:30pm Where: Meet on the NE corner of Essex and Delancey, in front of Richies and Fabco Shoes
It’s a tradition!Join us for our Annual Jack Kirby Lower East Side walking tour!
Monday, August 28th would have been Jack Kirby’s 106th birthday. Starting at 6:30 pm at the corner of Delancey and Essex Streets, we’ll make our way to Kirby’s birthplace, then to the location of his boyhood home, and will end at the location of the boy’s club that was instrumental to his upbringing. If you’ve attended the tour in the past, an exciting new location will be added!
At each stop, we will share stories and facts about Jack Kirby’s life on the Lower East Side and engage in some friendly Q&A about his work and career. There will also be a guerrilla street theater reading of his autobiographical story Street Code near where he grew up, and (new!) trivia questions with prizes! Check our website or social feeds for more information as the date gets closer.
This is a free, non-ticketed event. Donations welcome! Show up and celebrate with us!
The tour will last approximately 90 minutes with a walking distance of less than a mile. The tour will be livestreamed! Again, more details as we get closer.
What: Jack Kirby LES Walking Tour When: Monday, August 28th, 6:30-8:00pm Where: Meet on the NE corner of Essex and Delancey, in front of Richies and Fabco Shoes
The Kirby Museum has the full schedule of comic cons and shows we plan to attend this year. Some booth setups will offer our full or partial line of merchandise sale – items in our gift shop plus more, while others are a small setup with our professional scanners to scan and archive pages to our Jack Kirby Digital Archive.
We hope many Kirby fans, collectors and Museum members will visit us at these events:
MoCCA Arts Festival moccafest.org Saturday and Sunday, April 1-2 – 11 am-7 pm Saturday; 11 am – 6 pm Sunday
Metropolitan Pavilion 125 W 18th St, New York, NY 10011 New York, NY
Our attendance We will have our full line of merchandise and special show items for sale. Trustee Rand Hoppe will attend and manage the Kirby booth.
About the Show he MoCCA Arts Fest is a 2-day multimedia event, Manhattan’s largest independent comics and cartoon festival. With over 500 exhibiting artists displaying their work, award-winning honorees speaking about their careers and artistic processes and other featured artists conducting workshops, lectures and film screenings, the Fest and our artists exemplify the limitless aesthetic and social power of comics and cartooning.
Douglas N. Everett Arena 15 Loudon Rd Concord, NH 03301
Our attendance We will have our full line of merchandise and special show items for sale. Trustee Tom Kraft will attend and manage the Kirby booth next to Mike Royer. He will not scan art but can take requests to have collector’s Kirby art archived.
About the Show This show has an arena full of a stupendous array of comics from dollar books to rare issues that you may only have this one chance to see in front of your eyes, plus dealers coming in from as far as California and Las Vegas with new, fresh stock!
Wicked Comic Con Boston wickedcomiccon.com Saturday and Sunday, April 22-23 – 10 am-6 pm both days
Hynes Convention Center 900 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02115
Our attendance We will have our full line of merchandise and special show items for sale. Trustee Tom Kraft will attend and manage the Kirby booth. He will not scan art but can take requests to have collector’s Kirby art archived.
About the Show The Boston Comic Con Founders present Wicked Comic Con! It’s all about comic books, comic book creators, comic book art, and cosplay!
Hilton Garden Inn Los Angeles/Redondo Beach 2410 Marine Avenue Redondo Beach, California 90278
Our attendance We will have all our t-shirts for sale. Trustee Tom Kraft will attend and manage the Kirby booth. We will be scanning and archiving art for the Kirby Digital Archive at the table! If you are plan to attend the con and have Kirby art, please bring it to the con to have it archived.
About the Show The LA Comic Art Show is dedicated to selling original comic art. The show includes Art dealers and collectors from around the country featuring thousands of pages of original comic art from the 40s to present – No comics, just art!
It’s impending! It’s happening! It’s on its way! You know… The End! Existential Doom! The cosmic gods have arrived and they’re judging Earth’s very existence! Not only that, the gods are having some serious troubles of their own, too, see? And well, here comes the apocalypse… ragnarök… Wait… what’s this? It’s not the END end? It’s just another cycle? And now there’s a… rebirth?
Next week the Jack Kirby Museum & Research Center welcomes you to Kirby, Eternally, from Ragnarök to Rebirth our almost week-long event in downtown Manhattan! We’ll present, exhibit, and talk about how Jack Kirby, one of the most influential creators of the twentieth century used gods and mythological apocalypse and rebirth in his stories.
We’ll be showcasing Kirby’s work on Eternals, Thor, New Gods, Fantastic Four, and more. Join us at One Art Space, 23 Warren Street in Manhattan’s TriBeCa neighborhood from November 11th through the 16th, to see some Jack Kirby original art, enjoy some large prints of his mind-blowing printed work, take a look at some of his comics, experience a random, unscheduled reading of his work, wear some Kirby-inspired headgear, attend some ticketed, live-streamed events and more!
PROGRAMMING HIGHLIGHTS
Thursday, Nov. 11
Noon:Gallery opens
2:00 pm – Kirby at War Screening (free ticketed event)
Since we’re opening on Veterans Day, Thursday, November 11th, our first ticketed event at 2pm will consist of showing our friends Marc Azema and Jean Depelley’s documentary Kirby at War. After his upbringing in NYC’s dog-eat-dog Lower East Side ghetto, Kirby’s harrowing experiences in Europe in World War II continued to inform his life and work. With great respect and humility, we’re honored to be able to acknowledge this time in his life, and how it affected his continuing use of the themes we’re presenting.
Producer and art director Barry Geller and inker/letterer extraordinaire Mike Royer join us for a livestreamed virtual event! Kirby’s Lord of Light works are some of his most inspired mythological visuals, and we’re thrilled to be able to talk about it with Barry and Mike.
Satuday, Nov. 13
2:00 pm – Jacked Kirby Live Recording With Special Guests (ticketed event)
The Jacked Kirby podcast hosted by Tommy Lombardozzi and Mike D joins us for a live recording! Their special guest will be Olympians author and illustrator George O’Connor! It’ll be a brain-blast!
What: Kirby, Eternally, from Ragnarök to Rebirth
When: Thursday, November 11th through Tuesday, November 16th Thurs., Nov. 11th – Gallery opens at Noon Thurs., Nov. 11th – Exclusive Ticketed Screening from 2pm – 3:30pm (see above!) Thurs., Nov. 11th – Exclusive Ticketed Opening Reception from 6pm – closing (see above!) Fri., Nov. 12th – Gallery opens at Noon Fri., Nov. 12th – Exclusive Ticketed Hybrid Livestream from 6pm – closing (see above!) Sat., Nov. 13th – Gallery opens at Noon Sat., Nov. 13th – Exclusive Ticketed Podcast event from 2pm-3:30pm (see above!) Sat., Nov. 13th – Gallery closes at 7pm Sun., Nov. 14th – Gallery open from Noon-5pm Mon., Nov. 15th & Tues., Nov. 16th Gallery open from Noon – 7pm
Where: One Art Space, 23 Warren Street, New York, NY
Who: Your friends, the Jack Kirby Museum & Research Center
NOTICE: In accordance with New York City mandate, all visitors age 12 and older must be vaccinated against COVID-19 and must provide proof of vaccination with another form of identification in order to enter into One Art Space. Masks must be worn inside the gallery at all times for all visitors over the age of two.
The Jack Kirby Museum is proud to announce our first pop-up event of 2018. A Jack Kirby Odyssey will celebrate the King of Comics’ visionary work adapting and expanding on Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick’s sci-fi classic, 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Kirby Museum’s A Jack Kirby Odyssey will take place at One Art Space, located at 23 Warren Street in New York City, from May 11 through May 13.
Just in time to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Kubrick’s cinematic masterpiece, the Jack Kirby Museum will present an oversized reproduction Kirby’s adaptation of the movie, compilations of the photocopies of Kirby’s pencil art for his subsequent stories, which have never been reprinted, as well as dramatic, multimedia performances of three of these stories.
“Jack Kirby’s 2001: A Space Odyssey comics were pure Kosmic Kirby at the top of his craft, expanding on the 2001 story in ways not even masters like Kubrick or Clarke could have imagined,” says Kirby Museum Acting Director, Rand Hoppe. “We can’t wait for fans to have their minds blown by the stories AND the visuals.”
“The comics on display for A Jack Kirby Odyssey were painstakingly reproduced from the photocopies of Kirby’s pencil art,” adds Kirby Museum President, Tom Kraft. “The oversized comics at our Kirby 100 birthday celebration at One Art Space were big hits. We expect people will love seeing Kirby’s cosmic pencil art at large size, too.”
A Special Four Day Event Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Jack Kirby
NEW YORK, NY (August 15, 2017) – Jack Kirby, the co-creator of Captain America, The Avengers, X-Men, Fantastic Four, The Incredible Hulk, and many other pop culture icons, played an indispensable role in the emergence of comics as an art form. Kirby is to comics what Hitchcock or Spielberg are to movies, Babe Ruth is to baseball, or The Beatles are to rock n’ roll. Not only was Kirby incredibly prolific and influential, but he was an innovator whose work has come to define fantastic storytelling in comics and beyond.
To mark the 100th anniversary of Jack Kirby’s birth, the Jack Kirby Museum and Research Center will open a special, limited-engagement event, celebrating the life, legacy, and boundless creativity of the King of Comics. “Jack Kirby – 100 Years” will take place at One Art Space, located at 23 Warren Street in New York City, from August 27-30.
Jack Kirby 100 Years Highlights Include:
Oversized reproductions of some of Kirby’s most famous work.
Opening reception and birthday party
A peek into the Museum’s digital archive, allowing fans access to thousands of pages of scanned art.
A gift shop featuring limited edition prints of Kirby artwork, books, t-shirts, and more.
A Kirby 100 Years talk by Founding Trustee Rand Hoppe
An introduction to the Kirby Museum by Trustees Tom Kraft and Rand Hoppe
More to be announced as we get closer to the date.
About Us
The Jack Kirby Museum and Research Center is organized exclusively for educational purposes; more specifically, to promote and encourage the study, understanding, preservation and appreciation of the work of Jack Kirby. Kirby 100 marks our third pop-up event in New York City and we regularly travel the US and Europe putting on and assisting exhibitions and lectures about Mr. Kirby’s life and art.
The Jack Kirby Museum and Research Center is proud to announce the 100 Days of Kirby in honor of Jack’s approaching 100th birthday on August 28. Our Kirby centenary efforts will consist of live events, talks, parties, and a few surprises along the way. We’ll be working with friends, members, and donors both in the United States and the international community to make Jack’s 100th birthday a global event.
As part of our Kirby 100 effort, we’re offering some exciting new donation rewards and membership options. Your donation will allow us to honor Jack Kirby the way he deserves, and help us to scale future efforts, both to celebrate Jack’s centenary and beyond. Your donations help support our ongoing efforts to scan, collect, and preserve Jack’s work for future generations. You’ll be able to see more of our scans and preservation efforts than ever before, as we open up our digital archives for viewing on social media over the next 100 days. Be sure to follow us on Twitter and Instagram, like us on Facebook, and keep an eye on the front page of kirbymuseum.org for daily journeys into the life and work of one of the greatest artists of any medium the 20th Century produced.
To thank you for your support, we’re offering…
$1 = A set of Kirby 100 stickers
$5 = A set of Kirby 100 stickers and a set of Psychedelic Flyer postcards
$10 = A set of Kirby 100 stickers a set of Psychedelic Flyer postcards, and one mini-comic (choose Street Code or Private Kirby)
$25 = A set of Kirby 100 stickers, a set of Psychedelic Flyer postcards, and both mini-comics.
MEMBERSHIP LEVELS As a member of the Jack Kirby Museum, you’ll receive a 10% discount on all items in the Museum store and preferred access to upcoming Kirby Museum events for the duration of your membership. (and if you are a current member, be on the lookout for a package of goodies from the Museum Shop.)
$50 = At the $50 membership level, you’ll receive all of the items in the $25 donation package, and you can choose from one of the following prints or posters (while supplies last):
Erik Larsen’s Savage Kirby Dragon (12″ x 18″), Lord of Light: The Streets of Heaven and Comics Combatives Foxhole Event Poster (11″ x 17″)
$100 = At the $100 membership level, you’ll get everything in the $50 level plus choose one of the following t-shirts.
Top: V-neck T-shirt (Ladies Sizes only), King Miracle T-Shirt (Men and Ladies Sizes), and Galactic Black T-shirt (Men and Ladies Sizes) – Bottom: Electrocute T-shirt (Men Sizes only) and Dark Psychedelic Flier long sleeve T-shirt (Men Sizes only)
$150 = At the $150 membership level, you’ll everything in the $100 level, plus choose one of the following vintage posters (while supplies last). Please note that these vintage posters are not in mint condition. Expect imperfections.
Top: Captain America (23″ x 29″), 1941 Captain America (14″ x 23″) and Kirby Marvel (14″ x 23″) – Bottom: Incan Visitation (24″ x 18″) and Galactic Head (18″ x 20″)
$200 = Your $200 membership gets you all of the merchandise outlined above, plus as a limited-edition, signed-and-numbered prints of Tom Morehouse’s “The Power-Packed Marvel Art of Jack Kirby” collage (while supplies last).
“The Power-Packed Marvel Art of Jack Kirby” Collage (24″ x 39″)
$500 = Your $500 membership gets you all of the merchandise outlined above, plus a full set of limited edition Tribes Trilogy prints.
Tribes Trilogy: Kabuto, Lizard and Woman (18″ x 24″)
$750 = Your $750 membership includes all of the above, plus a full set of Kirby Museum t-shirts (order may be slightly delayed because of sizing supply).
$1,000 = Your $1,000 membership includes everything outlined above, including every vintage poster. So this includes:
All three posters
All five t-shirts
“The Power-Packed Marvel Art of Jack Kirby” Collage
All three Tribes Trilogy limited Prints
Additional naming and sponsorship opportunities will be offered as some of our events and exhibits crystallize. We still have opportunities to host and sponsor events, so please contact kirby100@kirbymuseum.org.
Are you cosplaying a Jack Kirby created or co-created character at New York Comic-Con this Sunday? If so, we invite you to join us in commemorating Jack Kirby’s centennial birthday year with a photo shoot on Sunday, October 9th at 1pm.
We’ll choose a location as soon as we can, and will have more information at our booth #1040, here on our web page, and on the various social channels!
Here are some of the more well-known characters:
Captain America, Bucky, Red Skull, Boy Commandos, Newsboy Legion, Challengers of the Unknown, Groot, Fantastic Four (Especially Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Thing), Mole Man, Skrulls, Doctor Doom, Impossible Man, Alicia Masters, Puppet Master, Nick Fury, AIM, MODOK, The Watcher, Galactus, Silver Surfer, Wyatt Wingfoot, Black Panther, Thor, Hulk, Rick Jones, Ringmaster, Ant-Man, Wasp, X-Men (Prof. X, Marvel Girl, Cyclops, Beast, Iceman, Angel), Magneto, Blob, Toad, Inhumans (Black Bolt, Medusa, Crystal, Gorgon, Karnak, Maximus), Odin, Balder, Loki, Sif, Volstagg, Heimdall, Ego, Him, New Gods (Orion, Highfather, Metron, Lightray), Darkseid, Granny Goodness, DeSaad, Glorious Godfrey, Kalibak, Forever People (Mark Moonrider, Vykin, Beautiful Dreamer, Serifan, Big Bear, Infinity Man), Mister Miracle, Big Barda, Oberon, Shilo Norman, Female Furies (Lashina, Stompa, Mad Harriet), Etrigan the Demon, OMAC, Princess Zanda, Mr. Little, Eternals (Ikaris, Ajax, Thena, Kro, Sersi, Zuras, Karkas, Reject, Sprite), Machine Man, Destroyer Duck, Captain Victory, Egghead, Lightning Lady, Goozlebobber, Silver Star, Darius Drumm,
We’ll be set up at booth 1040 in the small press area (where the ceiling is low in the center of the main floor of the Javits Center).
On Friday, October 7th our Acting Executive Director Rand Hoppe will participate in the panel “Will Eisner / Jack Kirby : Two Centuries of Genius” at 1:30PM in Panel Room 1B03 with host Danny Fingeroth, Paul Levitz (Will Eisner: Champion of the Graphic Novel), and Charles Kochman (Abrams ComicArts).
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