Etrigan, The Demon courtesy of Missouri based artist Chris Samnee. Chris is currently providing art for Marvel’s Siege: Embedded and the forthcoming graphic novel, Area Ten for Vertigo Crime. For more masterful monochrome artwork check out chris’ blog and DeviantArt page.

A legion of Kirby creations feature in this private commission by Brooklyn based artist Anthony Castrillo. Anthony originally trained as a graphic designer before moving into comics in the early ’90’s. He has worked for both Marvel and DC and describes himself as “a full-time Dad, moonlighting as a cartoonist”.

Dropping in from “…the World that’s Coming!”, it’s Buddy Blank aka OMAC courtesy of Florida based artist Ron Salas. Ron “designs shirts by day and draws comics by night”, the latest of which is Existence 3.0 for Image. You can see more of Ron’s work at his website & deviantArt page and also at the rather fabulous collaborative sketch blog, Comic Twart.

Avengers #151, inked and coloured from original Kirby pencils by Scott Reed.

Original cover by Jack Kirby and Dan Adkins can be found here.

From the Kirby rouges gallery, Captain America’s nemesis Red Skull by Lucas Soriano,

The arch-fiend Baron Heinrich Zemo courtesy of Spanish illustrator/graphic designer Lucas Soriano.

The Mask of Doom 451, a new short film written by and starring David Galán Galindo.

The steely gaze of Darkseid – The Lord of Apokolips, a terrifying vision in gouache and ink by Michael Cho.

Continuing the biblical theme, Robb Waters responds with this Kirbyesque portrait of Charlton Heston.

Marc Basile merges Jack Kirby and the Old Testament for a class project to illustrate two artistic inspirations. Marc teaches illustration and design at Sussex County Community College, New Jersey.

In this poignant tribute by Stefano Pavan, Kamandi and friends discover the remnants of a great artist’s studio, in a place once known as Thousand Oaks.

The exchange of Scott Free and Orion to guarantee peace between New Genesis and Apokolips, as depicted by Stefano Pavan.

As inspiration for ‘The Pact‘, Stefano turned to this depiction of New Genesis from New Gods #7, art by Jack Kirby and Mike Royer.

The sensational wedding of Sue and Reed, envisioned by Stefano Pavan.

Stefano Pavan illustrates the question, “What if Kamandi met Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers?”.

Italian artist Stefano Pavan steps into the Kirby-Vision spotlight. A life long Kirby devotee, Stefano’s work has appeared in the Italian comic anthologies Freak City, Monstars and Fulci: Poeta del Macabro. In the first piece this week from Stefano, we find Captain America, Bucky and the Howling Commandos enjoying some well earned R and R at the beginning the Allied troops Italian Campaign.

Burning Bush (above) and Pillar of Cloud, Pillar of Fire (below) courtesy of Californian artist/graphic designer, Isaac Brynjegard-Bialik. Taken from his latest exhibition, Paper Midrash, these paper-cut art pieces are based on bible stories and intersect comic mythology with the mythos of Judaism by use of cut-up comic books as background textures.

The backgrounds incorporate a mix of different artists and characters including Alex Ross, Gil Kane, John Byrne, classic Sub-Mariner, early JLA and the Fantastic Four. Of particular interest to readers of Kirby-Vision is the inclusion of Jack Kirby’s artwork of  The Human Torch and The Watcher, highlighted in the details below (click to enlarge).

Isaac’s show runs from January 24th to February 27th at the Merage Jewish Community Center of Orange County, details of which can be found here.

Above: The Flood, Revelation, The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (click to enlarge).

A short article by John Morrow on the influences of Judaism on Jack Kirby’s work can be found here.

Full-on Big Barda bad girl art courtesy of Rusty Shackles.

Final one this week from Marc Basile: The Astonishing Ant-Man. If only those old Grantray-Lawrence cartoons looked this good.

More from Marc Basile, with this moody portrait of the man-monster known as The Incredible Hulk.

The Mighty Thor, a “Pop Art Production” by Marc Basile.

The X-Men go “POP” courtesy of Marc Basile.

The Origin of the Fantastic Four. Photoshop collage by Jason Garrattley.

Michael Cho

Evan “Doc” Shaner

Many thanks to Michael and Evan for these fantastic Kirby inspired Christmas cards. Be sure to take a look at both of their blogs for more great work. You can see the original cover to Fantastic Four #46 by Jack Kirby and Joe Sinnott, here.

A very merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year to all you Kirby fans out there, Happy Holidays!

(Late on Christmas Eve, Kirby-Vision received this Kirby inspired piece from Chris Haley, taken from the Christmas strip of his webcomic, Let’s Be Friends Again, which we’d like to belatedly add to this festive post).

Joe Zierman pays tribute to Jack Kirby and Joe Simon’s cover for Adventure Comics #79, with this pin-up taken from last years’ free online comic Commander X Adventures. With thanks to Jay Piscopo.

Al Bigley presents the Fantastic Four and a gallery of frightful foes in this piece taken from original Jack Kirby pencils.