Author Archives: Jason Garrattley

Happy 101st Birthday Jack!

Today marks the 101st anniversary of Jack Kirby’s birth and to celebrate KIRBY-VISION proudly presents its 10th and final Birthday gallery in honour of ‘The King of Comics’.

KIRBY 101 curriculum courtesy of Dale Martin

Russell Payne

Jason Garrattley

Jim Engel

Chris Malgrain

Jose Martin

Daniel Hubbarde

J.A. Fludd has the distinction of contributing to all 10 Birthday Galleries here at Kirby-Vision. You can find his portraits plus original artwork collected here.

Marc Basile has contributed 38 pieces of art to the blog over the past 9 years. You can check out each and every one by clicking the link above.

Shannon Slayton treats us to a couple of the Kirby portraits he has commissioned over the past few years.

Michael Golden

Phil Hester

A huge thank you to all the artists who took the time to contribute to this year’s Birthday
celebrations. Happy Birthday Jack!, your inspiration lives on. Long live The King!

 

Contribute to the Jack Kirby 101st Birthday Portrait Gallery

Tuesday 28th August marks the 101st anniversary of the birth of Jack Kirby. To celebrate
the occasion, Kirby-Vision would like to invite all of our readers to contribute to our annual Birthday Portrait Gallery.

As you can see from our previous galleries – 20182016201520142013201220112010 and 2009 – there’s a lot of love out there for ‘The King of Comics’ and everyone who has contributed in the past has excelled themselves with their tributes.

If you would like to contribute to this years’ gallery please send your artwork to the
usual address. The deadline for submissions is Sunday 26th August and please title your
email ‘Kirby Portrait Gallery’.

Thank you.

Happy 100th Birthday Jack!

Today marks the 100th anniversary of Jack Kirby’s birth and to celebrate KIRBY-VISION proudly presents a very special portrait gallery in honour of ‘The King of Comics’.

J.A. Fludd

Brendan Tobin

Russell Payne

Vince Stone

Scott Ligon

Kevin Paul Shaw Broden

Renato Stevanato

Volker Stieber

Mike Sullivan

J.P. Vilchi

Marc Basile

  

  

Portrait & 3D art ‘A Meal fit for a King’ by Dale Martin

  

Portrait and Kirby recreations by Stuart Roach

Tom Kelly – Pen & ink illustrations for Challengers Comics and Conversation‘s Kirby 100th event.

Derek Langille – Inks & colours from Kirby original.

Shannon Slayton once again treats us to some of the Kirby portraits he has commissioned over the past few years.

David Williams

Josh Bayer

Karl Slominski

Dean Stahl

Video games & comic book artist -3- rounds of this year’s gallery with the above portrait and a 100 clues/answers crossword challenge which comes as a downloadable PDF via this link –
KING KIRBY 100 Crossword Challenge – Good luck!

A huge thank you to all the artists who took the time to contribute to this year’s very special
celebrations. Happy Birthday Jack!, your inspiration lives on. Long live The King!

 

 

 

 

 

Contribute to Jack Kirby’s 100th Birthday Portrait Gallery

Monday 28th August marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jack Kirby. To celebrate
the occasion, Kirby-Vision would like to invite all of our readers to contribute to our annual Birthday Portrait Gallery.

As you can see from our previous galleries – 2016201520142013201220112010 and 2009 – there’s a lot of love out there for ‘The King of Comics’ and everyone who has contributed in the past has excelled themselves with their tributes.

If you would like to contribute to this years’ gallery please send your artwork to the
usual address. The deadline for submissions is Friday 25th August and please title your
email ‘Kirby Portrait Gallery’.

Thank you.

The Mighty Thor

The Mighty Thor (or is it Thor The Mighty?), two recent inking recreations courtesy
of Doug Hazlewood.

Doug writes, “Was fairly faithful to the opening page and made Thor slightly more bulked up in the torso on the cover. I always felt he looks a bit too ‘normal.’ Inked the Stone Men with more texture. It was taking a while for my eyes to recover after inking all those last little bits last night. I generally don’t take on many Sinnott inked pieces since how can you improve on what he did or come real close to replicating it?”

   

Kirby machinery

Let’s catch up with California based storyboard and comic book artist Howard “Abba” Simpson. Above we have Howard’s personal homage to the unmistakably dynamic design of ‘Kirby Machinery’. Following that is a piece that appeared a couple of years ago in the Dark Horse published, Michael Chabon’s The Escapist.

You can find more of Howard’s artwork, webcomics and artist tutorials at his website, Tapas page and blog.

Valentine Special

Riffing on Kirby’s early Romance comics here’s an imaginary Cover for ‘The Fantastic Four Valentine Special‘ created by curator Jason Garrattley.

Bizarre Adventures

Always a pleasure to showcase new work from Marc Basile. This time Marc presents a Marvel project that never was but maybe it should have been. Marc writes, “I concocted the cover from some Earl Norem artwork and the storyboard was from Kirby’s stint at Ruby Spears studio, colored to look like storyboard marker art.”

Nobody does it better

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Many thanks to Moti Friedman for this striking Kirby portrait. Moti and his wife Noga are the creators of the childrens’ book series Upside-Down World, of which more can be found here.