Kirby Museum members Jason Atomic and Garry Vanderhorne are curating “Hail To the King!” – a Jack Kirby tribute art show at Resistance Gallery at 265 Poyser St. in London, England.
“Hail To The King!” presents pieces by several internationally renowned artists that express how Jack Kirby’s work has influenced them.
The opening this Thursday, 7 April, starts at 7pm and runs through 11pm.
Museum trustee and WhatifKirby.com mastermind Tom Kraft will have his scanner at Nostalgic Investment’s booth 1011.
(Scan above courtesy Hans Kosenkranius of Tri-State Original Art)
Almost 60 pieces were added to the Kirby Museum’s Original Art Digital Archive a few weeks ago at the Comic Art Fest in Secaucus, New Jersey, let’s make the effort in San Francisco a memorable one, too!
In addition to Hans (above), thanks to Mike Burkey of Romitaman Comic Art
Rich Donnelly of Cool Lines Art
Saul of Kirby Art
Bechara Maalouf of Nostalgic Collectables
Will Gabri-El of Will’s Comic Art Page
Anthony Snyder of Anthony’s Collectibles
and art collector Robert Altamura, for their help in Secaucus!
Hard to believe it’s been that long – Go! Read!
This Sunday, 13 March, is the Comic Art Con in Secaucus NJ, hosted by Comic Art Showcase. If you plan to attend and have original Kirby art that you wish to contribute to the Museum’s Original Art Digital Archive – which could also be used in Tom Kraft’s What If Kirby website and John Morrow’s The Jack Kirby Collector magazine – please stop by Nostalgic Investments’ booth to have it scanned and archived.
Here’s a piece we scanned at last September’s Comic Art Con, through the courtesy of Cool Lines Art:
This Saturday, 4 December, from noon until 9pm
Admission is free to the public.
Brooklyn Comics & Graphics Festival
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel
275 N 8th St
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
Google Map
We’ll have books and postcards for sale as well as offering posters, portfolios and prints as membership premiums.
Also, Jack Kirby stickers and our Mother Box.
It was great to spend a few moments with Joe Simon at the New York Comic Con this past Saturday.
Keep those birthdays coming, Joe!
(Photo by Olga Rosario. Thanks, Olga!)
I’m bringing a few of these lovely silkscreens to our booth (532) at NYCC today. $60.
Come celebrate the “King of Comics” with the Kirby Museum at NY’s Javits Center this weekend! We’ll have books, magazines, postcards, posters and portfolios. Also, a library of Kirby wonders. Take some of our stickers and feed a newly fashioned Mother Box with your donations! Bring your Kirby original art for scanning/inclusion in our Digital Archive. Daily raffles for new/renewing members!
We’ll be offering a limited edition of a small portfolio featuring the costume designs Jack Kirby created for a 1969 production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Each of the twelve images is printed on 5″ by 7″ 50 lb. acid-free 100% cotton rag paper.
We’re sharing our booth with Montilla Pictures, who will be selling DVD and Blu-ray copies of Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist. (I love that the first voice heard in the documentary is that of Jack Kirby’s.)
Just look at what we scanned in Secaucus, New Jersey on Sunday:
Thanks to the wonderful Comic Art Con hosted by Joe Veteri and Dan Gallo of Comic Art Showcase, thirty-seven new pieces of Kirby art were added to the Original Art Digital Archive.
Many thanks also to Bechara Maalouf, and, of course, Kirby Museum Trustee Tom Kraft for making these digital acquisitions possible.
And hats off to Hans Kosenkranius, Brad Savage, Will Gabriel, Anthony Snyder, Rich Donnelly and all the other generous collectors and dealers who allowed the Museum to scan their pieces.
I’ll take the opportunity to provide some long delayed updates…
Comic-Con International: San Diego
Museum Trustee, and Kirby Collector publisher, John Morrow graciously provided some space in his booth not only for the some Museum promotional material, but also my large format scanner. Tom Kraft and I, with the help of Bechara Maalouf and many original art dealers, scanned many pieces of Kirby original art for the Original Art Digital Archive. As always, I enjoyed spending time with John and meeting Kirby fans such as Museum members Jean Depelley, Scott Rowland and Scott Shaw! (of course there were more, but these gents come to mind as I write this a month later).
I was caught up a little more this year than last, so I did not post any of the news updates or photos that I expected. Mark Evanier’s Kirby Tribute panel was well attended.
My wife Lisa and I enjoyed visiting and talking Kirby with Mike Thibodeaux, Steve Roberts, and David Schwartz at Mike’s home the week after the convention.
Changes to the Board of Trustees
Please welcome new Museum Board members David Schwartz and Tom Kraft.
A longtime friend of the Kirby family and a Museum member since its founding, David Schwartz has written television cartoons and is currently involved in video production. With the significant contributions David has been making towards maintaining Kirby’s legacy and his professional experience, he is a natural fit for the Board.
Tom Kraft has also been a Museum member since its founding, and has been volunteering for the Museum at comic book conventions scanning Kirby original artwork for a few years now. Tom, who has developed the incredible What If Kirby? web site, is partner in a print and interactive design firm. I couldn’t be happier having Tom part of the Board.
Unfortunately, Lisa Kirby has stepped down from the Board. Lisa’s early support for the Museum’s founding by joining the Board and gifting the posters we’ve been offering as Membership premiums was critical. I’m sure the other Board Members join me in thanking Lisa for everything she has done for the Kirby Museum, and wishing her and her family all the best.
Blog news!
Since I feel I don’t do it enough, I’d like to thank and congratulate our Museum bloggers for their incredible work.
Harry Mendryk just finished an incredible 38 chapter “serial post” titled “Art of Romance,” where he examines all of the Simon and Kirby studio’s romance comics work. (He started in early 2008.) Highly recommended! (Harry’s also been doing the amazing restorations for Titan’s Simon and Kirby library.)
Jason Garrattley is offering a Kirby portrait gallery on Kirby-Vision today!
Bob Heer’s doing a great job keeping us up-to-date on what Kirby is coming to the comic shops and book stores. Buying Kirby from Amazon via links on Bob’s Jack Kirby Comics Weblog will put some revenue in the Museum’s coffers…!
Norris Burroughs’ examinations of the themes and visual language of Kirby’s work in Kirby Kinetics are compelling. Hope you’ve been reading…!
After having been posting some charming Kirby tidbits on his own for the last five months, I’d like to welcome Rob Steibel’s Kirby Dynamics into the Museum’s fold.
I’ve put quite a bit of time on the website’s software the past few weeks. Drupal/Gallery and WordPress are all up-to-date. >whew!<
There are more Kirby Museum blogs and subsidiary sites in the works, folks. Stay tuned.
