http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/kirby The World's Greatest Comics Artist Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:07:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Bunches of recently announced upcoming Kirby. TwoMorrows brings the COLLECTED KIRBY COLLECTOR up to the end of the standard magazine format issues. All the tabloid issues are still available, so no idea if they'll ever collect those in some format. And of course they continue with #52 ... http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/kirby/archives/1554 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. http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/kirby/archives/1552 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. http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/kirby/archives/1551 THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST CRIME COMICS is a thick new anthology edited by Paul Gravett, part of a large series of MAMMOTH BOOK OF... collections which seem to be mostly prose but have also included ...BEST WAR COMICS, ...BEST HORROR COMICS, ...BEST NEW MANGA and the upcoming ...ZOMBIE COMICS ... http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/kirby/archives/1548 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 ... http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/kirby/archives/1547 Today is the 91st anniversary of the birth of Jack Kirby. Here's a photo set of 91 Jack Kirby covers from throughout the years. (Go over here if the embed thing doesn't work) And visit the Museum home page for more Kirby birthday links. http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/kirby/archives/1545 A trio of Kirby/Ayers 7-pagers reprinted in this issue, giving a nice sample of the range of monsters that rampaged through the pre-hero Marvel line. Opening up is "I Created Sporr, The Thing That Could Not Die" from TALES OF SUSPENSE #11 [1960], which also provides the Kirby/Ayers cover for this ... http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/kirby/archives/1543 Quite a bit in the future, but keep an eye out for more info on the 2010 release THE ART OF THE SIMON & KIRBY STUDIO from Abrams, reprinting some as yet unspecified work from the original artwork. Should be a great companion to the books Simon is releasing ... http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/kirby/archives/1541 Apparently there's something by Simon&Kirby in the new MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST CRIME COMICS, edited by Paul Gravett. Anyone got a copy to elaborate? Thanks to Tim in the comments. It's a 14-page story from JUSTICE TRAPS THE GUILTY #6 [1948], "The Money-Making Machine Swindlers". Never before reprinted, as ... http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/kirby/archives/1540 The 22-page story "The Eye of the Falcon", previously twice scheduled for other books that didn't come out, finally saw print in a recently published anthology, FRONT LINES. This story is the third published "extrapolation" from Kirby's unfinished novel THE HORDE! that Janet Berliner has written and had published (the previous ... http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/kirby/archives/1539