Today would have been Jack Kirby’s 95th birthday. Tom Spurgeon has two excellent posts to commemorate the day: Jack Kirby, The King Of Comics, Would Have Been 95 Today: A sample of Kirby artwork Random Jack Kirby Links And News Round Up: Links to several notable articles, posts and interviews related to Kirby.
Interesting find in France. After the screening (which went over well with the audience, thanks!), Bernard, Reed and I had a moment to chat, and, naturally, we discussed Kirby and the checklist. Bernard told us he remembered an obscure Kirby Western that came out in the late 1960s. As we weren’t familiar with it, two […]
A fund-raiser has started to raise an initial $30,000 to open a museum in New York City for Jack Kirby. If Stan Lee is the George Lucas of comic books, then Jack Kirby is the medium’s Spielberg. Born Jacob Kurtzberg in 1917, the artist was honoured by his family and fans in 2005 with the […]
Sunday was Jack Kirby’s 94th birthday (he passed away in 1994). A couple of sites have posted some of his great artwork. Head over to Tom Spurgeon for scroll after scroll after scroll (I don’t want to pay for his hosting fees) worth of Jack’s work. Bleeding Cool has also posted several pieces (in handy […]