Category Archives: Brendan Tobin

Happy 100th Birthday Jack!

Today marks the 100th anniversary of Jack Kirby’s birth and to celebrate KIRBY-VISION proudly presents a very special portrait gallery in honour of ‘The King of Comics’.

J.A. Fludd

Brendan Tobin

Russell Payne

Vince Stone

Scott Ligon

Kevin Paul Shaw Broden

Renato Stevanato

Volker Stieber

Mike Sullivan

J.P. Vilchi

Marc Basile

  

  

Portrait & 3D art ‘A Meal fit for a King’ by Dale Martin

  

Portrait and Kirby recreations by Stuart Roach

Tom Kelly – Pen & ink illustrations for Challengers Comics and Conversation‘s Kirby 100th event.

Derek Langille – Inks & colours from Kirby original.

Shannon Slayton once again treats us to some of the Kirby portraits he has commissioned over the past few years.

David Williams

Josh Bayer

Karl Slominski

Dean Stahl

Video games & comic book artist -3- rounds of this year’s gallery with the above portrait and a 100 clues/answers crossword challenge which comes as a downloadable PDF via this link –
KING KIRBY 100 Crossword Challenge – Good luck!

A huge thank you to all the artists who took the time to contribute to this year’s very special
celebrations. Happy Birthday Jack!, your inspiration lives on. Long live The King!

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Birthday Jack!

Today marks the 96th anniversary of Jack Kirby’s birth and to celebrate KIRBY-VISION proudly presents our annual portrait gallery in honour of ‘The King of Comics’.

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Ashley Holt

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Mike Sullivan

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Jorge Freire

Jack and thecrackle machine

Lanc Godwin

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Kenn Thomas

Jack Kirby-The Man Who Would Be KING!!!

Steven John Vasquez

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Peder Riis

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Craig Peters
Craig writes, “I’m more a writer than an artist, so I took one of my favorite pieces of Jack’s work and … well, rewrote it.” – Click Image to enlarge.

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Jason Garrattley

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Derek Langille
For an extra visual treat check out Derek’s Flickr collection of 165 Kirby Double-page spreads.

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J.A. Fludd

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James Burns

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Marc Basile

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Brendan Tobin

Also joining in the Birthday celebrations with non-portrait pieces:

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Jeff McKenzie

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Volker Stieber

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Les White

And finally, Italian Renato Stevanato gifted not one but five portraits which will form part of his own celebratory post at his blog, cartoonstherapy.

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jack e monster

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A huge thank you to all the artists who took the time to contribute to today’s Birthday celebration, making it our biggest portrait gallery ever. And of course a huge thank you goes out to Jack Kirby for his continuing inspiration. Long live The King!

 

 

March Modok Madness 2013

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It’s that time of year again when Messrs. Brendan Tobin and Pedro Delgaro mindblast the interweb with their gruesome gallery of swollen-headed scoundrelism, March Modok Madness. Now in it’s sixth year, M.M.M. collects the depraved scribblings of maladjusted handicrafters from across the globe (all no doubt in the employ of AIM) and pays homage to one of Kirby’s most bizarre creations the Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing. Should you have no shame and wish to contribute then M.M.M. will be accepting submissions for the rest of the month at the address below.

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Happy Birthday Jack!

Today marks the 95th anniversary of Jack Kirby’s birth and to celebrate KIRBY-VISION proudly presents our annual portrait gallery in honour of ‘The King of Comics’.

Paul Carter

J.A. Fludd

Jorge Freire

Brendan Tobin

Jason Garrattley

   

Rob Steibel
Rob’s source material for his portrait comes from an unpublished Machine Man page (click to enlarge). Rob writes, “The character in the 3rd panel is Dr. Peter Spalding. I thought he looked a little like Jack with his pipe so I added inks.”

Lanc Godwin 
(You can see the original Kirby/John Verpoorten cover to The Eternals #9 here

Marc Basile

Mike Pascale

A huge thank you to all the artists who took the time to contribute to today’s Birthday celebration. And of course a huge thank you to Jack Kirby for his continuing inspiration. Long live The King!

 

 

 

 

March MODOK Madness

It’s that time of year again when Brendan Tobin and Pedro Delgaro unleash their monstrous celebration of one of Jack’s most bizarre creations, March MODOK Madness. The collaborative art blog is now in it’s fifth year and boasts over 500 unique interpretations of the Mobile Organism Designed Only for Killing from an international roster of artists. If your preference in villains is balloon headed cyber-enhanced psychopaths then make sure that March MODOK Madness is part of your 5-a-day.

Happy Birthday Jack!

Today marks the 94th anniversary of Jack Kirby’s birth and to celebrate KIRBY-VISION proudly presents our annual portrait gallery in honour of ‘The King of Comics’.

Luis Chichón

Lanc Godwin

Rob Drew

J. A. Fludd

Marc Basile

David Terry

Rob Steibel

Jason Garrattley

David Clayton

Giorgio Comolo

Brendan Tobin

A huge thank you to all the artists who took the time to contribute to today’s gallery. Long live The King!

Pin-Ups

Created to celebrate the release of the Thor movie, Brendan Tobin gives up some Kirby-love in the shape of the old Marvel Masterworks pin-ups.

The Inhumans

Brendan Tobin takes on the Inhumans. Originally created for Tim Miner’s 5 Minute Marvels, you can discover the evolution of this piece at Brendan’s Blog, here.

Mr. Miracle, Super Escape Artist

Mister Miracle struggles to free himself from yet another diabolical trap, courtesy of Brendan Tobin.

Hawkman

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Brooklyn based illustrator Brendan Tobin digitally inks and colours Jack Kirby pencils created for an unrealised Hawkman Animated series.

Brendan is the co-curator and contributor of the glorious March MODOK Madness blog. Thirty-one days dedicated to everyone’s favorite Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing, now in it’s third year and a must for all Kirby fans.

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