Here’s a couple more New Year’s comics. Thanks to all of you for checking out Kirby Dynamics in 2012, and I hope you all have a great 2013.

Here’s my New Year’s comic that runs tomorrow at gocomics. Kirby collage homage.

Happy New Year from Kirby Dynamics.

Two Gun Kid # 61, page 2 (Jan 1963). Kirby /Ayers. Really nice inks by Dick on this piece.

Thanks to a reader for sending this in. The seller writes, “this is the original art for page 21 of the never published True Life Divorce #1 that Kirby was pitching to DC Comics in 1971.”

JACK KIRBY ROMANCE SPLASH – SEXY MODEL + PHOTOGRAPHER

A scan of the original art from X-Men # 16 (Jun 1966), page 3. Even when he was only doing the layouts, Jack’s dynamics still shine through. Margin notes were cut off in the scan, if anyone has a copy of this with margin notes intact, please send it in.

Thanks to Arlen Schumer for passing along his Christmas wishes to all of you here at Kirby Dynamics.

As I was surfing the web, I saw this out of the corner of my eye: Jury Finds Marvell Owes $1.17 Billion in Patent Case. For a millisecond, I wondered, “Could it be? Did Marvel finally give the Kirby Estate a small token reward for Jack’s work creating all the characters and stories that serve as the cornerstone and the very foundation for their billion dollar empire?” Obviously, I knew better:

Jury Awards $1.17 Billion in Patent Suit
By JAD MOUAWAD, Published: December 26, 2012

Carnegie Mellon University said it was awarded $1.17 billion by a federal jury in Pittsburgh on Wednesday in a unanimous verdict that found the Marvell Technology Group had sold billions of semiconductors using technology developed at the university without a license.The award is one of the largest in a patent infringement case, and comes after a $1 billion verdict awarded to Apple this summer over its smartphone design.

I also see in the news: Marvel with one “l” is killing off Peter Parker.

Yawn…

As I’ve joked before, why doesn’t Marvel kill off all of Jack’s characters and allow some of these young creators to do something new and original. It would be a breath of fresh air. I mean, that’s what Jack did in the early 1960s: he revolutionized the comics industry with a pantheon of new characters.

To subtly emphasize what you would hope would be the world’s complete and utter lack of interest in what character Marvel killed off this week, here are some more images that express how, at least I, feel about it.

Page # 6 from What if? # 11 (Oct 1978). Starring the 60s Marvel bullpen as the FF. Kirby/Wray art. This must have been one of the last things Jack did for Marvel in the 1970s.

Merry Christmas from Kirby Dynamics.