Category Archives: Links

–Link– Kirby Museum update

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A few updates on the Kirby Museum website, including a short video of Kirby’s cameo on the 1970s Hulk TV show and the start of their Original Art Digital Archive. Pass the word on the latter to anyone you know who owns any Kirby original art.

–Link– Old Kirby – F.O.O.G. Portfolio

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FOOGVia Tom Spurgeon, Bud Plant has a warehouse find of the 1982 F.O.O.G. Portfolio (Friends of Old Gerber), which comes wrapped in a Kirby/Alcala Destroyer Duck envelope, on sale for just $10.

–Link– Kirby Museum Update

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There have just been some updates on the Kirby Museum and Research Center site, including adding an online payment option for donations through PayPal, and some pencil pages from this story, including transcripts of Kirby’s margin notes.

//kirbymuseum.org/index.html

–Link– DC Stamps (one with Kirby art)

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GA StampThe US Post Office is releasing some stamps next year featuring DC super-heroes. Among the 20 stamp set is one featuring Green Arrow by Jack Kirby and Mike Royer (taken from the cover of GREEN ARROW BY JACK KIRBY, which was actually a Bulls-Eye image modified to look like GA in the inks).

Apparently 2007 will feature a similar set for Marvel, which should have significantly more Kirby.

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–Link– 1964 MMMS Record

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Mark Evanier is talking about old comic company fan clubs, in this post about the Merry Marvel Marching Society records of the 1960s, including a short bit of an interview with Kirby about the record which featured the Marvel Bullpen of 1964 and a link to mp3 format files of the two MMMS records.

http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2005_10_12.html#010446

–Link– Publishers Weekly on MAXIMUM FF

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Publishers Weekly has an article on the genesis of the upcoming MAXIMUM FANTASTIC FOUR coffee-table book reprint of FF #1, with comments from Walter Mosely. Apparently the book jacket will fold out to a poster with photo reproductions of every page of the comic (it doesn’t say, but presumably full size) while inside every panel will be printed as a full page. If that’s your kind of thing.

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6260703.html

–Link– Evanier on Kirby bio

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Mark Evanier has a few comments about the recent Kirby panel, as well as an update on the status of his upcoming biography of Kirby and efforts to make it as complete and accurate as possible.

http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2005_07_31.html#010154

–Link– Sanderson on Kirby panel

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Peter Sanderson’s “Comics in Context” column has a lengthy rundown of the San Diego Con panel on Jack Kirby from a few weeks ago. There’s a brief bit in the intro, then the actual article on the panel starts on page two. Some interesting stuff, a lot of stuff about credits and compensation for Kirby’s work. Mark Evanier mentions that the first draft of his Kirby bio is almost finished and he hopes to announce publishing plans next year. Plus there’s a comment suggesting not buying the upcoming MAXIMUM FANTASTIC FOUR reprint of FF #1 [Evanier later clarifies on his site that he meant not buying it just for Evanier’s commentary]. Some info on the Kirby Museum as well, and lots of fun anecdotes about the Kirbys to balance out the darker parts of how he got ripped off. Good reading, I can’t wait until the transcript appears in TJKC (presumably in #44). While you’re there, you can read Sanderson’s coverage of the 2003 panel (transcribed in TJKC #40)

http://comics.ign.com/articles/637/637694p1.html

–Link– Sinnott gallery of Kirby/Sinnott FF

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Latest monthly feature on Joe Sinnott’s website is a gallery of his collaborations with Jack Kirby on FANTASTIC FOUR. Check it out.

http://www.joesinnott.com/pages/1/index.htm

–Link– Saavedra anecdote on Kirby

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Scott Saavedra posts over on his always fun Comic Book Heaven site about Kirby attending a charity event hosted by his father back in the 1970s.

http://comic_book_heaven.blogspot.com/2005/07/quick-jack-kirby-story.html