Archive for March, 2008
Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Kirby Kolors, Revisited
My post “Kirby Kolor, A Kirby Myth” from a few weeks ago recently triggered a far too acrimonious debate on the Kirby-list. The only thing I got out of it was that Greg Theakston, the main proponent of Kirby Kolors, has added a number of claims. So far there are three claims that Theakston has made [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in 2008/03, Artists, Experts, Kirby, Jack, Odds & Ends, Topic, z Archive by Harry
Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Joe Simon Interview and Captain America
As many of my readers probably already know, there is a lengthy interview of Joe Simon conducted by Jim Amash in the latest issue of Alter Ego (#76). I am sure it is the longest Simon interview ever published and it is filled with information that Joe has never previously revealed. In short it is [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in 2008/03, 3 Timely, Artists, Assorted, Kirby, Jack, Odds & Ends, Periods, Simon, Joe, Topic, z Archive by Harry
Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Some Obscure Simon and Kirby
Jack Kirby was released from military service earlier then Joe Simon. Jack returned to providing work for DC features such as Sandman and the Newsboy Legion. I do not know the date for Jack’s release from service but the comics provide some clues. Simon and Kirby had previously worked hard to provide DC with material [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in 2008/03, 4 DC (early), Artists, Featured Work, Kirby, Jack, Periods, z Archive by Harry
Friday, March 21st, 2008
Captain 3-D #2
As discussed in my last post, an artist approached Al Harvey saying that he had figured out a way to make 3-D comics. With this process Harvey comics would produce 3-D Dolly, Funny 3-D, Adventures in 3-D and True 3D and Captain 3-D. The first two belonged to the funny animal genre intended for a [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in 2008/03, 5 Studio, Artists, Harvey, Meskin, Mort, Periods, z Archive by Harry
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Kirby Museum Post Original Art from Captain 3-D
Rand Hoppe has posted seven images of page 10 from “The Man from the World of D” story in the Jack Kirby Museum. This page inked by Mort Meskin includes the large panel that I feel is the masterpiece of the book. It is really great to see how the images were distributed over the [...]
