Upcoming Kirby – T-shirt edition

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A few years ago Graphitti Designs re-issued many of the t-shirts Marvel produced in the 1960s, most of them having original Jack Kirby art.  More recently they did a Galactic Bounty Hunters shirt, still available.  Now, they’re getting into some of Kirby’s DC characters:Page 374 of the July 2010 Previews if you’re asking for it at a comic shop, no doubt soon to be added to the Graphitti website for ordering as well.

Those are nice, but I’m a bit surprised they didn’t go with a Darkseid for the initial offering.

4 thoughts on “Upcoming Kirby – T-shirt edition”

  1. John S.

    I’m glad to see stuff like this finally coming out. Jack’s ’70s creations are long overdue for some serious merchandising applications.

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  2. RAB

    Interesting choice of characters. Etrigan would make sense as a t-shirt even to someone who didn’t know the character…but Mister Miracle is a really odd pick. (Unless they’re hoping people will assume he’s a religious hero and that this impression will counterbalance having a demon from Hell on the other one?) Scott Free is my favorite Kirby costumed hero, but that image doesn’t really work for a t-shirt. Maybe if they’d reproduced the entire cover, text and blurbs and all…

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  3. John S.

    RAB: It’s funny how different people can sometimes have different opinions on things. I liked your comment about counterbalancing a demon from Hell with a “religious” hero, and I thought the exact same thing myself. But I thought the opposite about the images they’re presenting on the T-shirts. In my view, the Mister Miracle image works a bit better than the Etrigan image and I think the latter, not the former, would have been more effective if they had reproduced the entire cover. Oh well…I’ll probably still buy both shirts anyway, since I really loved both those series.

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  4. Bob Post author

    I don’t know if full comic book covers, with all the trade dress and blurbs, really work as well as t-shirt designs compared to strong character drawings. It’s a format that needs some bold simplicity. Heck, search for the Metal Men on the Graphitti site to see what those t-shirts were like…

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