KIRBY-VISION

Kirby Triptych

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Jason

Three sensational Kirby heroes from the brush of Dan McDaid.

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Team Work

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Jason

A second post this week from Marc Basile as he tackles, with his usual flair, a couple of pieces from some of Jack’s more crowded 1960′s books.

Original artwork by Jack Kirby, please click to expand. Avengers artwork via comicartsfans.

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Marc Basile fills us in on the story behind his latest pièce de résistance…“Around the time Jack came back to Marvel they wanted to get it’s hands into animation and toy licensing, so they started up the Micronauts, Godzilla and Shogun Warrior titles. One such title, Gigantor, was to be done by Jack, but it didn’t pan out . Not one to throw away an idea, Jack used the concept as inspiration for Machine Man a few years later.”

Original cover art by Jack Kirby and Mike Royer.

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This Blog Wants You

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Jason

No new posts this week as Kirby-Vision takes a short break, so here’s a reminder of our call for contributions for our annual Jack Kirby birthday portrait gallery.

Sunday 28th August marks the 94th anniversary of the birth of Jack Kirby. To celebrate the occasion, Kirby-Vision would like to invite all of our readers to send in their portraits of ‘The King of Comics’.

You can find our previous galleries here and here, both of which were a great success. We’re looking forward to seeing what you can all come up with this year and if you can’t find the time to contribute, then please spread the word to any Kirby fans that you may know.

The deadline for inclusion is Friday 26th August. All submissions can be sent to the usual address, please mark your emails “Birthday”. Thank you.

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The First Avenger

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Jason

Captain America: The First Avenger by Canadian graphic designer and illustrator Michael McCabe. You can find a step by step breakdown of this illustration at Michael’s blog here, which includes this top tip for all budding cartoonists, “…when I was drawing Captain America’s shield I didn’t have a circle template large enough so the bottom of a Tim Horton‘s coffee cup did just as good a job.”

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A Kurtzberg Gallery

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Jason

Many thanks to Minneapolis artist Jason Sandberg for inviting Kirby-Vision to feature a selection of his Kirby inspired artwork. Jason credits Kirby as a catalyst for his “love of drawing” and these acrylic painting’s “mix aspects of different Kirby drawings into a new composition, I try to paint the canvas as if I were Jack”. Jason has exhibited his work in Minnesota and Manhattan and has appeared in print in various national indy art magazines. You can find more of Jason’s work at his website – here.

Clockwise from top left: The Kurtzberg Monster vs U.S. Army, The Kurtzberg Skyline, The Kurtzberg Sprinter, The Kurtzberg UFO, The Kurtzberg Paradise and The Kurtzberg Aristocrat.

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Heroes & Villains

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Jason

Two action packed pieces that wouldn’t look out of place on the covers of their respective books by Alex Williamson. Alex is a senior designer for a sign/vehicle wrap company and a part-time artist (currently working on sample pages) and co-creator of the webcomic Brass Falcon. You can find more of his work at his website – here.

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Contribute to the Annual Jack Kirby Birthday Gallery

Posted on July 23, 2011 by Jason

Sunday 28th August marks the 94th 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 Jack Kirby birthday portrait gallery.

You can find the previous galleries here and here, both were a great success and all of the artists who contributed excelled themselves with their tributes. We’re looking forward to seeing what you can all come up with this year and if you can’t find the time to contribute then please spread the word to any Kirby fans that you may know of.

All contributions can be sent to the usual address, deadline is Friday 26th August, please mark your emails ‘Birthday’. Thank you.

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Hulk and Kalibak

Posted on July 19, 2011 by Jason

Two great pieces for you today courtesy of Tampa Bay based artist Elliot Fernandez. Elliot writes – “When I was six years old, I inherited a collection of comics from some relatives that included much of Jack Kirby’s early works. However, I didn’t really understand Kirby’s contribution to the art world until about ten years or so ago. As I continued to grow in my appreciation of the craft involved in comic creation, it became plain to me that Kirby was not only the master, but was years ahead of his time. His work as an artist and storyteller has had a fundamental impact on my own work as well as my life and my world view.”

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Darkseid

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Jason

Darkseid the Destroyer, courtesy of San Francisco based artist Kevin Shriver.

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Pin-Ups

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Jason

Created to celebrate the release of the Thor movie, Brendan Tobin gives up some Kirby-love in the shape of the old Marvel Masterworks pin-ups.

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Vision

Posted on July 12, 2011 by Jason

Simon and Kirby’s Vision, re-designed as the protagonist of a imaginary 1960’s movie, by recent graduate of the School of Visual Arts, Seni Oyewole. Seni is currently working on various personal projects including character design, comics and animation. You can find more of Seni’s work at his blog and DeviantArt page.

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Hulk Will Smash

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Jason

Today’s Kirby-goodness comes courtesy of North Carolina based artist, Loston Wallace. First up there’s the Green Goliath himself, which features a mighty colouring job by Steve Downer, followed by a host of sketch-book workouts featuring some favorite grotesques from Tales to Astonish/of Suspense.

Loston is an alumni of the Joe Kubert School of Art and has provided artwork for the role playing industry as well as the DC Comics Licensing Department producing children’s books based on DC’s animated properties. His comic credits include: Klyde & Meriem, Flash Gordon and Lorna, Relic Wrangler. You can find more of Loston’s work at his website and DeviantArt page.

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Bow Before Doom!

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Jason

Doctor Doom – friend of the untied shoelace – courtesy of Mike Henderson.

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Big Barda

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Jason

Big Barda, a recent commission piece courtesy of Eisner and Harvey nominated artist, Mike Hawthorne. Mike’s comic credits include The Un-men, Fear Agent, Three Days in Europe and Conan: Road of Kings as well as the creator-owned titles Umbra and Hysteria. You can find more of Mike’s work at his blog, DeviantArt gallery and the webcomic Raising Crazy.

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The Inhumans

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Jason

Brendan Tobin takes on the Inhumans. Originally created for Tim Miner’s 5 Minute Marvels, you can discover the evolution of this piece at Brendan’s Blog, here.

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Digital Kirby-Vision

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Jason

Kyle Latino gets bitten by the Kirby bug with this series of iPad digital sketches.

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Karnak

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Jason

Karnak, Inhuman martial master, courtesy of Tyler Crook.

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Sketchbook Darkseid

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Jason

A Darkseid sketchbook commission courtesy of Kentucky based illustrator Justin Stewart. Justin’s work has appeared in the anthology books, Josh Howard Presents: Sasquatch, Jesus hates Zombies and Tales from Clerks. He is one sixth of the collective Quarantine comics and a fourth of the Beaucoup Pop Podcast team and you can find more of his art at his blog and website.

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Model Heroes

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Jason

Give it up for Pete Von Sholly who poses the question, What If… Aurora had produced Fantastic Four model kits ‘back in the day’. Writer, artist, director, animator and recording artist, Pete has worn many hats during his career. He has storyboarded over a hundred feature films including Mars Attacks, The Mask and The Shawshank Redemption. Pete is also the creator of the graphic novels, Morbid and Extremely Weird Stories and the satirical magazines, Crazy Hip Groovy Go Go Way Out Monsters and Comic Book Nerd. You can find a treasure trove of Pete’s work at his website and blog and also purchase this set of fantasy boxes via morbidmonster.com

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Thor Inked & Coloured

Posted on June 5, 2011 by Jason

The Mighty Thor inked and coloured from original Kirby pencils courtesy of Mark Welser. “I’ve been doing a lot of Kirby styled art lately and felt it was starting to get too far away from the source material so I did what I’ve wanted to do for a very long time -actually ink over some of Jack Kirby’s pencils. If you ever want to discover how much you still need to practice as an inker, do this.” You can find more of Mark’s artwork, including an impressive gallery of re-imagined movie posters, at his DeviantArt page here.

Original Kirby pencils via comicartfans

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Darkseid!

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Jason

The Lord of Apokolips courtesy of Mike Henderson. A former student at the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art, Mike is the co-creator of the graphic novels, Smuggling Spirits and Hexen Hammers. You can find more of Mike’s gorgeous black and white artwork at his Flickr page and blog.

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These ain’t no toys

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Jason

A big Kirby-Vision welcome to Mike Napolitan, web designer and self confused comic book geek and Lego fan, both of which he merges to create The Legion of Mini Figs. The superhero Lego figures are created in the 3D animation program Maya with textures in Photoshop and Illustrator. You can find a host of Mikes creations (including many a Kirby creation) at his website, here.

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Mercuri & Guilotina

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Jason

A big welcome to these pages to fellow Kirby Museum blogger, Robert Steibel, who presents two pieces of Kirby inspired art for your viewing pleasure. First up is an original character, Mercuri. Created in Gimp and utilising Kirby’s trademark visual dynamics, Robert describes Mercuri as a “kick-ass, female version of Jack’s Silver Surfer.”

Secondly, Robert inks and colours Jack’s pencils of Guilotina, a sketch produced for the unrealised project, Big Barda and her Female Furies.

Robert writes and draws the daily comic Apple Creek and you can see his other new comics projects like Wild Life at his blog, here. Last but not least, Robert writes the weblog, Kirby Dynamics for The Kirby Museum, which we recommend as an essential part of your daily Kirby intake.

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Savage Thing

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Jason

Today Kirby-Vision features two gorgeous pieces of Kirby inspired artwork courtesy of Bill Reinhold. Above you will find commission artwork of a surly Ben Grimm in black ink and wash, and below Bill inks Jack’s pencils for a piece that originally appeared in Gary Martin’s The Art of Comic Book Inking.

Bill is a renown penciller/inker who kicked off his comics career in the early eighties. Since then he has worked for all the major comic publishers on a host of books such as The Punisher, The Badger, Earth X, Green Arrow, Detective Comics and Jack of Fables. The co-creator of the Epic Comics mini Spyke, Bill is currently illustrating Magnus Robot Fighter for Dark Horse Comics. For more check out Bill’s extensive portfolio at DeviantArt.

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