The Orange County Register has a nice article interviewing Neal Kirby, Jack and Roz’s son. Includes three photos, Neal with the Hunger Dogs cover, with a huge colour FF poster and other original artwork and a signed photo of Jack Kirby.
http://www.ocregister.com/ocr/2005/07/09/sections/news/news/article_591195.php
Mark Evanier has the full press release about the Jack Kirby Museum and Research Center (JKMRC) project coming from the Kirby Estate, Randolph Hoppe and TwoMorrows, including an on-line version of the Kirby checklist. More details will be forthcoming at the San Diego Con next week, or keep an eye on this page.
http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2005_07_06.html#010054
//kirbymuseum.org/
No, not any links to the FF movie. As many of you know, there’s a movie based on the Fantastic Four due to be released soon. It’s not known at this time exactly what, if any, credit Kirby will get on the film, but it will almost certainly be less than he deserves (never mind the financial compensation). Also be prepared for a slew of newspaper, magazine and web articles that mention the film but don’t mention Kirby. Given that, I think it would be a good idea, especially among anyone reading this who has a weblog or site, or post on related message boards, to make sure you always mention Jack Kirby as creator or co-creator of the FF whenever the movie comes up, and maybe link to a relevant web site. A few recommended ones:
Mark Evanier’s Kirby stuff:
http://povonline.com/Jack%20Kirby.htm
The Jack Kirby Collector:
http://www.twomorrows.com/kirby/
In particular #9 and #33
http://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=57&products_id=281
http://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=57&products_id=235
A few TJKC articles:
http://www.twomorrows.com/kirby/articles/33ff15.html
http://www.twomorrows.com/kirby/articles/23notes.html
Google search for TJKC articles on FF
A few from this particular site, if I may
http://jackkirbycomics.blogspot.com/2004/09/fantastic-four-51-this-man-this.html
http://jackkirbycomics.blogspot.com/2005/03/marvel-milestone-edition-fantastic.html
Mark Evanier has posted his San Diego Con panel discussion schedule, including as in most years a Jack Kirby panel. If you’ll be there, here’s the time. If you’re not, THE JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR will no doubt run a transcript in a future issue as usual (recent comments on the Jack Kirby Mailing List suggest that the TwoMorrows folks might have another thing related to Kirby for the Con)
Friday, July 15
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM / Room 8
THE ANNUAL JACK KIRBY TRIBUTE PANEL
Another gathering, another batch of recollections about the
man they still call the King of the Comics. With STEVE SHERMAN, SCOTT
SHAW!, Kirby lawyer PAUL S. LEVINE and ROBERT KATZ, manager of the Kirby estate, plus others to be named later.
Author Michael Chabon writes about his admiration for Big Barda and about Kirby in general in an essay posted on his website.
http://www.michaelchabon.com/archives/2005/03/a_woman_of_valo.html
Tony Isabella’s online column Tony’s Tips takes a look at KIRBY UNLEASHED, as well as a vintage 1950s DC cover.
Joe Sinnott, as I’m sure you’re all aware one of my favourite Kirby inkers, broke his shoulder recently. It’s healing, but he can’t draw for now. Visit his site for details on where to send well wishes, as well as a funny Hulk drawing.
Thanks to Michael Ryan’s Palaeoblog for the link to this site’s Devil Dinosaur page (and keep an eye on the Palaeoblog’s history of Dinosaur comics by Steve Bissette), as well as pointing to this tribute to Jack Kirby over on the Digital Dream Machine:
http://digitaldreammachine.blogspot.com/2004/11/jack-kirby-king-of-comic-books.html
Longtime Kirby art and business partner Joe Simon has a website with his son Jim, with quick looks at many of the classic S&K collaborations. Check it out.
Fred Hembeck has been sharing various bits of 1960s newspaper articles about comics from an old scrapbook, and has just posted the 1966 Herald-Tribune article that Kirby felt minimized his contributions to Marvel. I think the article was also reprinted in TJKC a while back, but don’t remember the issue. However, look towards the bottom of this Romita interview for Kirby’s reaction to the article.