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-Link- Sinnott bio preview

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JoeSinnott.jpgThere’s a massive 30-page PDF preview of Tim Lasiuta’s upcoming book Brush Strokes With Greatness: The Life & Art of Joe Sinnott over on the TwoMorrows site. Some gorgeous looking stuff, with a lot of his 1950s solo work, plus of course a lot on his work with Jack Kirby (including some comments on recently inking the “lost FF” issue). The book should be out later this month.

The book can be ordered at the above link, your local comic shop (order code MAR073744) or from Amazon or Tales of Wonder.

-Link- Don’t ask…

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(pre-publication covers always subject to change of course)

(and presumably Amazon will restore their previous 30%+ discount before the book comes out)

(edited to add, hey look, they just did. Listed at 34% off again)

-Link- Wired on LORD OF LIGHT

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scifiland.gifVia Mark Evanier, Wired has an article about the proposed LORD OF LIGHT movie, with concept art by Jack Kirby, and how it was used in freeing some hostages in Iran.

You can see some of Kirby designs and read more about it here.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.05/feat_cia.html

-Link- Kirby nominated for Eisner

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Eisner Awards nominations are out. Jack Kirby is nominated for the ETERNALS collection in “Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books”. Frequent (and favourite of many) Kirby inker (and damn fine penciller in his own right) Dick Ayers is up for the Hall of Fame, so I’ll campaign on his behalf as well.

http://www.comic-con.org/cci/cci_eisners_main.shtml

-Link- Joe Simon interview

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Apparently the Joe Simon interview did air at least once on CNN this past week. I thought it had been preempted by the unfortunate breaking news (at least fast forwarding through the tape I had made started with flood coverage and then on to the ever escalating situation in Virginia). Anyway, can’t find it on the CNN site, but someone posted it to YouTube. The video runs under two minutes, has a lot of shots of Simon at his art board, and some old photos including one of him with Jack Kirby.

-Link- Randolph Hoppe interviewed

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Randolph Hoppe, board of trustee member of some place with the unlikely name of the Jack Kirby Museum and Research Center, is interviewed by Craig Yoe over on the Arf Lovers site.

http://arflovers.com/Blog/?p=238

-Link- Simon on CNN

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Mark Evanier reports that there will be some sort of segment on CNN during the day on April 16, 2007 spotlighting Kirby’s longtime partner Joe Simon. Try to check it out if you’re interested, and if you spot a video or transcript online before I do feel free to post the link here.

-Link- Kirby in British art magazine

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Nick comments on the previous post:

While browsing the magazine rack today, out of the corner of my eye I noticed a Kirby/Shores Cap figure surrounded by images by George Grosz and Dieter Roth. I picked up the magazine entitled Tate Etc. with the sub heading “The Art Magazine that RESPECTS your intelligence!” (couldn’t pass up a joke!). It’s a British publication and Inside there is an article by John Carlin entitled “The Real Comic Book Heroes”. I have not read it yet but it is accompanied by a nice full page of the Original Art that appears on the over (cover to Captain America # 108). It’s always nice to see Kirby represented in fine art magazines, not the first time I’ve seen him there and I’m sure it won’t be the last. Of course, we all know Kirby is Art with a capital A. I’m glad the rest of the world is discovering this as well.

You can see the cover and article here. The Kirby mention in the article is fairly brief, but interesting. In part it reads:

Echoes of [William Blake’s] flattened muscular style reverberate throughout the comic’s heroic phase, particularly by artists such as Jack Kirby (1917–1994), creator of Captain America, The Hulk, X-Men and the overall look of Marvel Comics. One of Kirby’s characters, The Thing (one of the Fantastic Four) on the title page of This Man, This Monster, resembles Blake figures such as Lucifer from his illustrations for Dante’s Divine Comedy.

Additional Kirby artwork included is the great double page splash from DEVIL DINOSAUR #4.

http://www.tate.org.uk/tateetc/issue9/realcomicbookheroes.htm

-Link- Evanier updates Kirby projects

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Mark Evanier has an update on some recent stuff he wrote on the topic of Jack Kirby coming out in the next few months, including a link to the publisher’s site for KIRBY – KING OF COMICS, which has these details:

224 pages, 9″x12 1/4″
Hardcover
ISBN: 0-8109-9447-X
EAN: 9780810994478
US $40.00

-Link- Marder’s “Think Kirby”

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If you’ll forgive the self-link to another web project I’m working on, Gunk’l’dunk is a fan site for Larry Marder and his TALES OF THE BEANWORLD series, one of my favourite modern age comic (and a very Kirby-inspired one on a more fundamental level than most), and among the posts on the odd little bits of Marder’s published material I’m doing is this one, one of my favourites, a tribute to Jack Kirby that appeared in AMAZING HEROES #100.