San Diego!

You guessed it! The Jack Kirby Museum is getting booth 5520 ready for Preview Night tonight.

Will we have new merchandise? Of course! Check out these great new shirts…

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..and if you’re not attending the San Diego show, clicking on each shirt above will give you the opportunity to buy them right here, right now! Please allow us some time to return from California to ship them to you.

There’s more news, but we’ll spill the beans in another post.

 

 

 

Special Edition: NYC this weekend

If you’re going to Special Edition: NYC this weekend, stop by table 938, which we’re sharing with Arlen Schumer. We’ll have our T-Shirts and our huge, limited-edition, signed-and-numbered prints of Tom Morehouse’s “The Power-Packed Marvel Art of Jack Kirby” collage for sale.

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Jack Kirby, le super-créateur

EXPO_JACK_KIRBY_CV1_4eMonde-01-(c)-Originally-published-by-Urban-Comics-for-France-under-DC-Comics-licensee.-(c)--2012-DC-COMICS.-All-Rights-ReservedThe Jack Kirby Museum is proud to have participated in a new exhibit “Jack Kirby, le super-créateur” that is being shown at the 42nd Festival de la Bande Dessinée in Angoulême, France. Sponsored by 9eArt+ and Urban Comics, curators Frédéric Manzano and Jean Depelley have pulled together a wonderful selection of Kirby work, which includes almost 100 images from the Kirby Museum’s Original Art Digital Archive.

To celebrate this outstanding exhibit, the Kirby Museum’s Tom Kraft and Rand Hoppe will attend the festival. We understand there is going to be a Jack Kirby panel discussion. More news as it it comes in.

Rest In Peace, Stan Taylor

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Jack & Roz Kirby with a beaming Stan Taylor in Thousand Oaks, California, 1989.

I recently learned of the 18th December passing of avid Jack Kirby fan and scholar Stan Taylor. Stan was an active participant in the email discussion groups devoted to Kirby that started up in the late 1990s. He contributed articles and letters to TwoMorrows’ Jack Kirby Collector and data to its Jack Kirby Checklist. He’d also been published in the Jack Kirby Quarterly. While his most known work may be the essay “Spider-Man: The Case For Kirby”, where he analyzes the early Spider-Man comics, Stan’s magnum opus is certainly his 900+ page biography of Jack Kirby. He and I made a few attempts at serializing it here on the Kirby Museum’s web site, but we were foiled by the logistics of doing so. Some excerpts were eventually published on Rob Steibel’s Kirby Dynamics blog. I’m glad I was able to spend some time with Stan in person – the last time was in 2007, visiting a comic shop and sharing a meal with Rob Steibel in Orlando, Florida. It’s a laugh-filled memory I’ll cherish. Stan is survived by his wife of 42 years, Annabelle. Rest in Peace.

– Rand Hoppe

Jack Kirby with Annabelle & Stan Taylor  Thousand Oaks, California, 1989.
Jack Kirby with Annabelle & Stan Taylor Thousand Oaks, California, 1989.

 

Jack Kirby, PFC

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Jack Kirby’s time in military service during World War Two had a powerful effect on him, which was evident in his work. Over on Marvel.com, Neal Kirby shares some stories and photographs.

The Kirby Heirs and Marvel/Disney Amicably Resolve Their Dispute

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The big news is the title of this entry, and we currently don’t know much more than the released statement,

“Marvel and the family of Jack Kirby have amicably resolved their legal disputes, and are looking forward to advancing their shared goal of honoring Mr. Kirby’s significant role in Marvel’s history.”

and a nice comment from Mark Evanier that he feels Jack and Roz would be “real, real, real happy.”

We at the Kirby Museum were asked for an official comment by the Washington Post, and here is what we sent:

“The trustees of the Jack Kirby Museum and Research Center are delighted with the out-of-court settlement arrived at today between the Kirby Family and Marvel/Disney. As an entity dedicated to promoting the study, understanding, preservation and appreciation of the work of Jack Kirby, we view this as a day of vindication for Jack as an artist and writer of extraordinary talent who literally shaped an industry through the force of his imagination. Although Jack cannot be here to witness this historic moment, we know that, somewhere out there in the cosmos, he is smiling a humble smile of satisfaction at this long-awaited outcome.”

Celebrate Jack Kirby’s 97th birthday with his granddaughter by helping comic book creators in need

Jillian Kirby is honoring what would have been her grandfather Jack Kirby’s 97th birthday with her Kirby4Heroes campaign, which raises donations for the Hero Initiative,  a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping comic book creators in need, offering assistance to artists and writers.

Kirby4Heroes on Facebook

San Diego!

We’re set up at booth 5520 near aisle 1300, with T-shirts, prints, membership premiums, and a Kirby art exhibit of hi res prints of hi res scans.

Annie B @nurseshark with her Electrocute T!

Florida Supercon, here comes Kirby (Museum)!

That’s right, the Jack Kirby Museum will be setting up something special at the Florida Supercon in Miami Beach from July 3rd through the 6th!

Miamicon 1 (1975) program cover by jack Kirby, inked by Mike Zeck.

NY Comic Fest Saturday 14 June!

Look for the Jack Kirby Museum table at NY Comic Fest Saturday 14 June, in White Plains, NY!

Here’s the website for the show: nycomicfest.com

See you there!

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