Jack Kirby Centennial Aug 28, 1917-2017

[MRP]

Today, Aug 28th 2017, would have been Jack Kirby's 100th birthday and there are lots of things going on the celebrate the centennial.

I'll offer up my own huzzah here...







All Hail the King!

-M

[hedrap]

HUZZAH!

I love those head shots.

[Earth 2 Chris]

We celebrate Kirby with a fun panel discussion on the Fire & Water Network today! LONG LIVE THE KING!!!

http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/fw-presents-jack-kirby-100th-birthday-celebration/

Plus a nice gallery of some of the subjects here:

http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/fw-presents-jack-kirby-gallery/

Chris

[MRP]

The King at work...






from The Kirby family Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/jackkirbyco...lnFcNXH3dyd1A8

-M

[Earth 2 Chris]

It really irks me that Google didn't recognize Kirby's 100th birthday with a banner on their homepage. I mean, they celebrate people no one's ever heard of, yet Jack Kirby's imagination helped fuel a good chunk of what Hollywood is outputting these days. Thor: Ragnarok and Justice League are based largely on Kirby concepts alone!

Chris

[Bruce Banner]

ALL HAIL KING KIRBY!

[emeraldknight47]

There is truly only ONE King of comics art and Kirby is his name. That man had the most fantastic imagination, possibly on a similar level to Einstein's sheer intelligence. Easily three quarters of what we see in the pop culture world today can be attributed to his mind and his hand. Long Live the King!!!!

[Brazoo]

I Love this thread!

As much as I love Kirby there's always new things to discover. Just last week I came across this collage from "Spirit World" in full colour - which I had never seen before (only the monotone version in the magazine):



From this review:

http://www.tcj.com/reviews/in-the-days-of-the-mob/

[palitoy]

I posted this yesterday, my favourite Kirby pieces.
kirbyday.jpg

[Earth 2 Chris]

Wow, great stuff guys. I almost always forget about Big Jim's P.A.C.K., since I just missed it, but it had to be a lot of kids' intro to Kirby.

Chris

[Brazoo]

Here's the amazing double splash page from Kamandi #5 (I got a lovely copy this afternoon. Yay!!)