Archive for August, 2007
Friday, August 31st, 2007
-Link- Interview with Royer
Daniel Best has a long interview with Mike Royer over on his blog. Haven’t had a chance to read the whole thing yet, but what I’ve skimmed has a lot of interesting anecdotes on various eras of Royer’s life, and there’s a lot of interesting art (including some of Royer’s Winnie the Pooh […]
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Guest Post - Meeting the Kirbys
Meeting the Kirby’s
by Steve Cohen
I am glad to say that I was fortunate enough to meet Jack and Roz Kirby in 1987, at The San Diego Comic Con.
My long-time friends, Carol Kalish, then in charge of the direct sales division at Marvel Comics, and a big fan of Jack Kirby’s, and Richard Howell, also a […]
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Guest Post - Jimmy Olsen #141
SUPERMAN’S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #141 [1971]
by Russell Payne
Mr Jack Kirby produced more single pieces of art in his lifetime than the entire populations of some countries produce in a generation. So finding just one panel, one page, one issue, even one title that sums him up is like trying to find just one fish that […]
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Guest Post - Captain America’s Bicentennial Conspiracy
CAPTAIN AMERICA’S BICENTENNIAL CONSPIRACY
by Kenn Thomas
Since it is impossible to pick a “favorite” single image or story from Kirby’s vast and brilliant oeuvre, as someone who writes about conspiracies, I feel obliged to draw attention to this aspect of Kirby’s art. Much can be said about the profound impact that the Kennedy assassination had on […]
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Happy 90th, Jack
On this day in 1917, Jack Kirby was born, and of course proceeded to change the way comics were done multiple times in the decades that followed.
The picture below, which appeared on the back of many Eclipse comics in 1986 as part of an effort to get Kirby some recognition (and his artwork) from […]
