James Burns | KIRBY-VISION

Today marks the 98th anniversary of Jack Kirby’s birth and to celebrate KIRBY-VISION proudly presents our annual portrait gallery in honour of ‘The King of Comics’.

Ghen Martin is a Spanish illustrator and graphic designer, and at the same time a great, great fan of Jack Kirby’s art. You can know more about his comic book projects and work on his website here.

J.A. Fludd

Dale Martin

Peder Riis

Joel Gahr

Rick Baiker

Jim Engel

Graziano Donati

Jim Stewart

Joe Zierman & Derek Langille

Daniel HDR

EXTRA BIRTHDAY TREAT!! – Kirby-Vision recommends – kirbyans – a Kirby tribute blog coordinated by Daniel featuring a wealth of Brazilian artists.

Michael Adams

Renato Stevanato

Sid Teles

Marc Basile

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!

EXTRA BIRTHDAY TREAT!! EXTRA BIRTHDAY TREAT!! EXTRA BIRTHDAY TREAT!!
EXTRA BIRTHDAY TREAT!! EXTRA BIRTHDAY TREAT!! EXTRA BIRTHDAY TREAT!!

The very gracious Shannon Slayton got in touch with Kirby-Vision and offered to share some of the Kirby portraits he has commissioned from artists over the past few years. Many thanks Shannon, we are privileged to present your awesome gallery.

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’.

Jorge Freire

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.

Jason Garrattley

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

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

Jeff McKenzie

Volker Stieber

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.

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!