{"id":4036,"date":"2014-09-27T18:08:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-27T22:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/?p=4036"},"modified":"2014-09-27T18:08:21","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T22:08:21","slug":"link-evanier-on-kirby-marvel-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/4036","title":{"rendered":"-Link- Evanier on Kirby \/ Marvel settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Evanier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/2014\/09\/26\/friday-afternoon-13\/\">comments briefly<\/a> on the announced settlement between the Kirby family and Marvel, which comes just ahead of when the Supreme Court would have made a decision on whether or not to hear the case. No details on the settlement are forthcoming from him, but &#8220;real happy&#8221; is good news. While I don&#8217;t expect financial details to come out, I&#8217;m pretty sure that any settlement that Evanier feels would have made the Jack and Roz Kirby &#8220;real, real, real happy&#8221; would include a noticeable increase and the presence and prominence of Jack Kirby&#8217;s credits\u00a0in conjunction with characters he created or co-created at Marvel appearing in print and on screen (credits which usually currently range from &#8220;completely absent&#8221; to &#8220;buried and weakly worded as &#8216;based on comics by&#8230;&#8217; or &#8216;special thanks to&#8230;'&#8221;), so keep an eye on that in months to come.<\/p>\n<p>Also good news is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/2014\/09\/26\/friday-morning-27\/\">another post<\/a>\u00a0indicating that recent events mean he can finish his long-awaited biography of Kirby. Until then, don&#8217;t forget that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1419711601\/ref=nosim\/wwwpovonlinco-20\">THE ART OF THE SIMON AND KIRBY STUDIO<\/a> is out soon (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/2014\/09\/19\/team-supreme\/\">Evanier recently reporting he already has his copy<\/a>\u00a0and describing the book).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Evanier comments briefly on the announced settlement between the Kirby family and Marvel, which comes just ahead of when the Supreme Court would have made a decision on whether or not to hear the case. No details on the settlement are forthcoming from him, but &#8220;real happy&#8221; is good news. While I don&#8217;t expect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036","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=4036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4037,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036\/revisions\/4037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}