Jack Kirby documentary

[samurainoir]

[Brazoo]

Oh cool!

[Brazoo]

So far I'm with Walt Simonson - when I was a kid I loved Kirby's art right away. (Also, Simonson's no slouch!)

[Bruce Banner]

All hail the King.

[palitoy]

So far I'm with Walt Simonson - when I was a kid I loved Kirby's art right away. (Also, Simonson's no slouch!)

Me too, I got this before I could read. It set the standard for me.



He may have been the first comic artist I instantly recognized as a kid. Neal Adams would have been an early second because....Batman...

[PNGwynne]

I have Evanier's pictorial biography od Kirby and love it--I've really grown to admire Kirby's stylistic touches and especially the dynamism of his story-telling.

But as a DC kid, and without access to many comics, I was much more into the Adams-Aparo-Novick style, and later, Perez & Newton. It wasn't until I was an adult and had a bit more exposure to Kirby that I appreciated him. My favorite: Kamandi--pure escapism and the sort of thoughtful pastiche that has always grabbed my attention in fiction.

[samurainoir]

Kirby was odd for me.. I LOVED all the early Marvel Kirby reprints like The Uncanny X-Men in Amazing Adventures, and the Fireside books of The Fantastic Four, Hulk, Avengers etc. Not realizing Kirby drew all of that stuff.

I was alternately fascinated and repulsed by his run on Captain America in the 70's... which were some of the earliest comics I read. They genuinely scared me at a young age.

However, by the time I realized who Kirby was, I wasn't really that into his work on Super Powers nor his creator owned stuff for Pacific like Captain Victory and Silver Star.

That would change once I discovered back issues of his weird DC stuff like Demon, The Sandman and Mr Miracle, as well as that 70's run of Captain America. I also have a fondness for Devil Dinosaur and his Black Panther run of the 70's.

[hedrap]

I was on the exact same trajectory, Sam. 2001, Eternals, Kamandi...no appeal until about ten years ago. The Super Powers mini was so anachronistic for the 80's I couldn't get passed how his work, the market standards, SF: Galactic Guardians and the toys didn't seem to gel. His SP Darkseid looked absurd.

[samurainoir]

How does this cover not terrify and fascinate a four year old? Kirby's stuff is so beautifully grotesque at times.

[madmarva]

I could look at his 70s splash pages all day. He has so much going on. He often liked to start the action in the upper right corner and if you follow the art diagonally to the lower left quadrant over to the lower right quadrant it seems that time is passing. It's a static image but there's progression without panels. Just genius.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Going to have to watch this when I get home. I liked 60s Kirby right away, but it took a few years to begin to appreciate 70s Kirby onward. But when I did, I was in for life.

Chris

[palitoy]

Going to have to watch this when I get home. I liked 60s Kirby right away, but it took a few years to begin to appreciate 70s Kirby onward. But when I did, I was in for life.

Chris

Heh, you just reminded me of my indoctrination into 70s Kirby comics. When I was ten or eleven, a local comic shop (The Silver Snail) had a booth at the CNE. I must have went to it 20 times that summer and bought every #1 comic they had (because they were going to sky rocket in value!) that meant Devil Dinosaur, Eternals and 2001 among others. I remember thinking that Marvel was totally rushing their best artist or something. It didn't have the same polish the FF books did.

[phil]

There's a good reason Stan Lee nicknamed him The King. His talent.

[MIB41]

To this day I still say if someone CGI's the Kirby Thing, they've got a smash hit on their hands.

[YoungOnce]

To this day I still say if someone CGI's the Kirby Thing, they've got a smash hit on their hands.

Oh yeah... Bulls-eye.