Archive for June, 2008

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

New Kirby – Mid-year roundup

Halfway through, 2008 is shaping up to be a pretty stunningly prolific year for Kirby publications, with 29 already out (a few of them fairly trivial, like some cover reprints in AVENGERS CLASSIC, but that balances with some major releases like KING OF COMICS, KIRBY FIVE-OH, COMPLETE KIRBY v5 and FOURTH WORLD OMNIBUS v4), and [...]

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Friday, June 20th, 2008

Upcoming Kirby – Simon&Kirby in 2009

This is early and of course publishing plans change, especially dates, but take a look at these books that popped up on Amazon:
Joe Simon: The Man Behind the Comics: The Illustrated Autobiography of Joe Simon (Hardcover)
The Best of the Simon and Kirby Studio (Hardcover)
Nice fat books (listed at 256 and 288 pages, respectively), safe to [...]

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Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Upcoming Kirby – Demon, Eternals, etc

Major Kirby release in the latest solicitations is a complete run of THE DEMON, the first time any of those stories has been reprinted except for #1 in a digest almost 30 years ago. Over at Marvel THE ETERNALS gets completed in the softcover format, FF #108, in all its cobbled together glory, shows [...]

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Thursday, June 12th, 2008

-Link- Ayers and Sinnott NYC Kirby panel vid

The main page of the Kirby Museum site currently has an almost hour long video of a recent convention panel of Dick Ayers and Joe Sinnott talking Kirby with Mark Evanier. You can also view it over here at Google Video.

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Saturday, June 7th, 2008

-Link- Jeremy Kirby’s site

Jack and Roz’s grandson Jeremy Kirby has a new site up at http://www.jackkirbyuniverse.com/. Some interesting art and photos up there now, with more promised in the months ahead. Also some items for sale, some 1970s material and some new stuff. The site is Flash based, so I can’t link to specific content, [...]

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