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Christopher Irving has a nice long article about Joe Simon, with lots of quotes and photographs, over at the Graphic NYC site.

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Mark Evanier reports that he’s got an actual advance copy of Titan’s THE BEST OF SIMON AND KIRBY in hand, which means that it should be available through the usual channels in mere weeks.

And Harry Mendryk, who did art restoration for the book, has a copy too, and shows off the cover under the dustjacket.

ISBN-10: 1845769317
ISBN-13: 978-1845769314

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If asking at a comic shop, you might want to have this order code from Diamond handy: DEC084249

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Congratulations to Joe Simon, born 95 years ago today.

As usual for all your Joe Simon needs I refer you to Harry Mendryk’s S&K Blog, and look out for several books by Simon in the next year.

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Daniel Best has an excerpt from an interview with Mike Esposito where he talks about Jack Kirby’s artwork and the points where their careers intersected. Give it a read.

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September 8, 1958, Jack Kirby launched his syndicated daily comic strip Sky Masters, with Dick and Dave Wood helping out on the writing end and Wallace Wood on the inks. The strip lasted a little over two years (including a year of Sunday pages).

Courtesy of Thomas Ward, here’s a gallery of Sky Masters originals.

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