Archive for February, 2008
Friday, February 29th, 2008
Happy Leap Day
Once every four years, we put aside a day to celebrate Kirby’s greatest creation.
2 Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Bob
Friday, February 22nd, 2008
-Link- Evanier on KIRBY: KING OF COMICS
Mark Evanier mentions that if you’re going to WonderCon in San Francisco this weekend, you might be able to pick up a copy of KIRBY: KING OF COMICS and get it signed by him. Otherwise it should be out everywhere else soon, and he has some encouraging early word on orders for it.
Adding, CBR [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Links by Bob
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Upcoming Kirby – Kamandi, Thor etc
Catching up on a few recently announced upcoming Kirby publications. The upcoming seventh MARVEL MASTERWORKS for Thor brings them one book from finishing Kirby’s run, which I think will pretty much wrap up Kirby’s silver age super-hero stuff at Marvel in that format. The KAMANDI one-shot is a nice cheap sampler of the [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Upcoming Kirby by Bob
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
New Kirby – FF: THE LOST ADVENTURE
Out in comic stores this week is FANTASTIC FOUR: THE LOST ADVENTURE, the long awaited reconstruction of the story intended for FF #102, newly inked and scripted by Kirby’s regular collaborators of the era, Joe Sinnott and Stan Lee, along with reproductions of the Kirby pencils and margin notes, commentary by John Morrow and a [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in New Kirby by Bob
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Steve Gerber, R.I.P.
Mark Evanier posts the sad news that Steve Gerber passed away yesterday at age 60. Among his many other works, Gerber of course co-created the vastly entertaining DESTROYER DUCK series with Kirby in the 1980s, as well as working on animation projects like THUNDARR together.
Destroyer Duck #1 [1982]
Destroyer Duck #2 [1983]
Destroyer Duck [...]
