The Amazonian Apokoliptian herself, courtesy of Dan McDaid.

Doctor Doom by Mississauga, Ontario based Andrew Phan. 18 year old Andrew adds in his email, “Attached is a piece I did for myself, drawn, scanned then digitally colored. I’m still learning and hopefully my art will be seen around the world”.

Black Bolt, inked from original Kirby pencils by Doug Hazlewood. Since winning the inking category of the original Official Marvel Try-out Contest in 1986, Doug has provided inks for numerous comic books including: Animal Man, The Flash, Birds of Prey, Doom Patrol and Teen Titans. You can find more of Doug’s work at his website and ComicArtFans gallery.

Cap, on a bike – just for fun, courtesy of Jay Piscopo.

The ever lovin’ blue-eyed Thing, courtesy of Robert Ball.

A couple of Kirby bad guys courtesy of Chicago based illustrator and designer Tom Kelly. You can find more of Tom’s work at DeviantArt and daportfolio and his latest web/app comic Sword of the Savage Samurai is available through Graphicly.

Matt Webb

Steve Downer

“Eh-oh!”, it’s Nazi Teletubbie Armin Zola, courtesy of Derek Langille. Derek is an illustrator and designer based in Calgary, Canada and you can find more of his work at his website, blog and Flickr photostream.

Just a small selection of the Kirby character sketchcards that New York based artist Cory Smith has been posting over at his Twitpic gallery. Cory took up a daily sketch challenge in June of last year and has notched up an impressive 168 cards so far. The full gallery, as it stands, can be found here and you can find more of cory’s work at his blog and DeviantArt page.

A big Kirby-Vision thanks goes out to Travis Ellisor for the link to Cory’s Gallery.

More Kirby derived humour from Pete Von Sholly.

“Something fun” from the pen of Pete Von Sholly.

A glorious Captain America in watercolour courtesy of Ron Salas.

A moody take on the son of Darkseid courtesy of Grey Williamson. Grey is an artist/writer/sculptor/designer and founder of the design team Carbon-Fibre Media. You can also find more of his artwork at his DeviantArt page.

A stylistic take on Jack’s X-men characters courtesy of San Francisco based illustrator Kevin Wada. Kevin’s work “tends to range from mainly editorial to character/fashion…” and you can see more of his gorgeous artwork at his website, blog and DeviantArt page.

The Devourer of Worlds courtesy of Pittsburgh based artist, Dave Wachter. Dave is the artist, co-creator and co-writer of the Eisner nominated webcomic, The Guns of Shadow Valley. His artwork ha appeared in various antholgies as well as Tell Them Johnny Wadd is Here for Terminal press and Robert Bloch’s That Hellbound Train for IDW. You can find more of Dave’s work at his blog – here.

A unique take on Magneto from the brush of Jeremy Sorese. Jeremy is a commercial illustrator/typographer and creator of the webcomic In the Parlor Room. You can find more of his work at his blog and flickr account.

This lovely piece, rendered in graphite with digital colour, comes courtesy of New York based artist, Sam Wolfe Connelly. Sam has exhibited extensively and has forged a career in magazine and book cover illustration. You can find more of his work at his website
and blog.

Silver Surfer vs. Silver Star by Andy Khun.

Kirby OMAC vs. Giffen OMAC by Derec Donovan.

A big Kirby-Vision welcome to San Francisco based artist, Arvin Bautista. Arvin has a background in video game design but has recently moved into comic book illustration with the creator owned, The Bomb Squad.
You can find more of Arvin artwork at his blog – here.

Mario Zuccarello pays homage to “the creative genius who has built a large part of American comics, my hero number one, Jack Kirby”.

Many thanks to Elliot Fernandez for this portrait of the DC New 52 version of Buddy Blank’s alter-ego, OMAC.