{"id":5073,"date":"2013-08-28T08:00:36","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T07:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/?p=5073"},"modified":"2013-08-28T20:45:49","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T19:45:49","slug":"happy-birthday-jack-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/2013\/08\/28\/happy-birthday-jack-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Jack!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today marks the 96th anniversary of\u00a0Jack Kirby<\/strong>\u2019s birth and to celebrate KIRBY-VISION proudly presents our annual portrait gallery in honour of \u2018The King of Comics<\/strong>\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Ashley Holt<\/a><\/p>\n

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Mike Sullivan<\/a><\/p>\n

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Jorge Freire<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Lanc Godwin<\/a><\/p>\n

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Kenn Thomas<\/a><\/p>\n

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Steven John Vasquez<\/a><\/p>\n

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Peder Riis<\/a><\/p>\n

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Craig Peters
\n<\/a>Craig writes, “I\u2019m more a writer than an artist, so I took one of my favorite pieces of Jack\u2019s work and … well, rewrote it.” – <\/em>Click Image to enlarge.<\/p>\n

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Jason Garrattley<\/a><\/p>\n

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Derek Langille<\/a>
\nFor an extra visual treat check out Derek’s Flickr collection of 165 Kirby Double-page spreads<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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J.A. Fludd<\/a><\/p>\n

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James Burns<\/a><\/p>\n

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Marc Basile<\/a><\/p>\n

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Brendan Tobin<\/a><\/p>\n

Also joining in the Birthday celebrations with non-portrait pieces:<\/p>\n

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Jeff McKenzie<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Volker Stieber<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Les White<\/strong><\/p>\n

And finally, Italian Renato Stevanato<\/strong> gifted not one but five portraits which will form part of his own celebratory post at his blog, cartoonstherapy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A huge thank you to all the artists who took the time to contribute to today\u2019s Birthday celebration, making it our biggest portrait gallery ever. And of course a huge thank you goes out to\u00a0Jack Kirby<\/strong>\u00a0for his continuing inspiration.\u00a0Long live The King!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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