1. Mark Sahagian (Hack Cartoonist!) says:

   08/28/2006 at 1:33 pm

   Hello,
   I was reading my Essential FF #4 when I went to check The Beat and saw this posting, what a pleasant coincidence. Possibly the best part of Jack’s run on the FF. The energy that radiates out of those panels has never gotten old to me. In fact, the older I get, the more I appreciate him.

   I had the pleasure of having lunch with Jack and Roz, among others, at a Denny’s in 1989, during a convention I worked at. He was a truly decent person… and if we put any modern cartoonist under the scrutiny we put the King (and Kurtzman) under, no one would be any good! God bless ya Jack, whever you are.
   Mark Sahagian
   (Hack Cartoonist!)
2. Jamie Coville says:

   08/28/2006 at 7:19 pm

   Jack Kirby at a Denny’s?

   Considering Mark’s hatred of Denny’s this surprises me :)
3. Rich Johnston says:

   08/29/2006 at 4:57 am

   This was Chris Achilleos’s cover for the Three Doctors novelisation.

   http://www.timelash.com/tardis/images/target64.jpg

   Naughty, eh?
4. Pete Bangs says:

   08/29/2006 at 8:02 am

   My tastes went in a different direction from Kirby’s work early on but it stuns me when I think of it how many of Kirby’s works are ingrained in my memory. Reading 2 colour and black and white reprints in the UK Mighty World Of Marvel in my preteen years in the early 70’s, hunting down copies of Kamandi and Devil Dinosaur and Black Panther a little later through to reading Captain Victory and Silver Star in the 80’s, Jack Kirby was a constant source of entertainment even though he was never top of my comics list.

   The king is dead, but thanks to Essentials and Showcase etc,
   LONG LIVE THE KING.
5. Snake Pliskon says:

   02/21/2007 at 12:57 pm

   If anyone deserves the acknowledgement of merit it is Jack Kirby. His talented eye for perspective will always be dazzling and stylish.
6. Martin D. Katz says:

   12/03/2007 at 10:09 am

   I think it it cool you acknowledging Jack Kirby on his birthday. Jack was my uncle through marriage. I only met him twice, at my cousin’s wedding in NYC and at another uncle’s house in Monticello, NY. He was a genuinely down to earth guy. I never knew until many years later how famous he was (is). He was not the least bit pretentious. Just a nice guy with a thousand intersting stories.
7. Robert says:

   12/29/2007 at 6:29 pm

   Jack Kirby gave me a good time. Nick Fury of Shield was my favorite. And there was a one-shot, the Three Rocketeers in 1965. Jack, you are one of the Good Guys. Thank you so much.

   Robert
8. jonatas davi says:

   07/27/2008 at 10:05 am

   hello i got somehow drawing gift and i am trying to draw like leonardo da vinci ;because he is the best for me i would like to publish my drawings ,could u in any some way help me?i saw the jack kirby´s drawings and his perception of perpective is wonderful,but could get better. my name is jonatas davi porto loureiro ,i live in brazil in the state of espirito santo ,vila velha, novo méxico.thank u.and i´m 16 plz help me!

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