{"id":19,"date":"2004-09-14T23:26:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-14T23:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/2004\/09\/14\/kamandi-32-me\/"},"modified":"2004-09-14T23:26:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-14T23:26:00","slug":"kamandi-32-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/19","title":{"rendered":"Kamandi, The Last Boy On Earth #32 [1975] &#8211; Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/09\/kam32.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2468\" alt=\"kam32\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/09\/kam32-687x1024.jpg\" width=\"358\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/09\/kam32-687x1024.jpg 687w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/09\/kam32-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/09\/kam32.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From KAMANDI #32 (inked by D. Bruce Berry), a nice page that reminds us that despite all he&#8217;s gone through, Kamandi is still a kid, as is Tuftan, prince of the Tigers. An exciting issue overall, with all out war between the Tigers and the Gorillas while Dr. Canus gets to know a strange alien being. Because this was a &#8220;Giant&#8221; issue, Kirby got a few extra pages (23 as opposed to the standard 18 of the time), which really helps the pacing of this. It&#8217;s a damn shame that comics of the era got so stingy with the story page counts (going all the way to 17 pages an issue soon after, before that was reversed).<\/p>\n<p>I really like Berry&#8217;s inking from this period as well. He started off, a year before this, a bit rough, especially compared to Mike Royer who had the art of inking Kirby perfected, but he had a pretty decent learning curve and managed to maintain the power of Kirby&#8217;s pencils.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/09\/kammap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2470\" alt=\"kammap\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/09\/kammap.jpg\" width=\"573\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/09\/kammap.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/09\/kammap-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/09\/kammap-624x463.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the map that appeared in this issue (click on it for a larger scan), in the middle of the reprint of the first issue. It&#8217;s an expanded version of the map from #1, which only had North America and part of South America. Unfortunately, Kirby only got to less than half the world sketched out here. It&#8217;s clear that, if circumstances allowed him to stay, he could have done years more on the book. Ah, to see what Kirby would have done with the Orangutan Surfing Civilization&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Also in this issue is a four page profile of Jack Kirby by assistant Steve Sherman, with several photographs.<\/p>\n<p>Published 1975<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From KAMANDI #32 (inked by D. Bruce Berry), a nice page that reminds us that despite all he&#8217;s gone through, Kamandi is still a kid, as is Tuftan, prince of the Tigers. An exciting issue overall, with all out war between the Tigers and the Gorillas while Dr. Canus gets to know a strange alien [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genre","category-science-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}