Archive for June, 2008
Friday, June 27th, 2008
News on Titan’s Simon & Kirby books
As I warned previously, I am not going to be the one to break any news about Titan’s Simon & Kirby book projects. But the Jack Kirby Weblog has a post about some new information. Not much but it is better then nothing.
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Marvel Reprints or Marvel Recreations?
Dan Best has an interesting post on his blog 20th Century Danny Boy. It is Original Art Stories: Marvel Masterworks Non-Original Artists. In it he discusses Marvel’s policy of re-creating art when the original stats are not available. It sounds like it is a lot more prevalent then I originally believed. I once wrote a […]
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
The Boys’ Ranch Landscape Swipe
Boys’ Ranch #2 (December 1950) “Lead Will Fly At Sunset”, art by Jack Kirby
In a recent post about Boys’ Ranch I wrote about what is probably the most unusual splash the Jack Kirby ever drew. The reader need not go back to my original post because I include an image of the splash above and […]
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
The Real Reason for the Decline of Comics
When I reviewed Michelle Nolan’s recent book, “Love on the Racks”, I mentioned that I sometimes had trouble keeping track of the numbers that she would cite to illustrate the ups and downs of romance comics. I therefore resolved to try to make a graphic presentation. I used the data collected by Dan Stevenson found in […]
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
Sky Masters Color Guide, Kirby Kolors?
Ferran Delgado, who as I previously mentioned is working on a Spanish reprint of Sky Masters of the Space Force, has posted an image of a Sky Masters color guide on his blog. There is every reason to believe Jack Kirby did the coloring for the Sky Masters Sunday strips. Therefore the Sunday strips may […]
