{"id":3490,"date":"2020-07-07T12:32:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T16:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/effect\/?p=3490"},"modified":"2020-07-16T10:50:19","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T14:50:19","slug":"looking-for-the-awesome-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/effect\/2020\/07\/07\/looking-for-the-awesome-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking For The Awesome – 25. Animated"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We’re honored to be able to publish Stan Taylor’s Kirby biography here in the state he sent it to us, with only the slightest bit of editing. – Rand Hoppe<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

ANIMATED<\/h2>\n\n\n
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A new game in town<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

No one realized that Jack was having vision problems, and these problems sometimes skewed his perspective. His natural instincts corrected some of these problems and his inkers fixed what they could, but it was obvious that Kirby was slipping. His mind was as full of ideas as ever, but his ability to render the amazing was no longer strongly in his grasp. His problems with plot continuity continued as he raced from one amazing context to another. The many years of staring at an art board was taking its toll, not just physically, but mentally as well. Kirby didn\u2019t have the strength to fight the system anymore. In a memorable dinner at a local dive, Jack talked to Mark Evanier of his future, bemoaning the fact that his contract was soon up and he couldn\u2019t bear the thought of another tenure doing comics for a big impersonal comic house. Yet he had no alternatives. Then for perhaps the first time, instead of Kirby making his fortune, fortune found him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n