Titan Unveil ‘Monster Massacre’ Anthology
The Brit Zone continues, sort of, with a new announcement from Titan Comics. This week Titan unveiled a new co-publishing deal between themselves and Atomeka, which will put out 'Monster Massacre'. This anthology will...
Stan and Jack seen together c. 1964
One of the holy grails of the blogosphere (at least this blogosphere) has been a picture of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby together to run whenever one of those "Stan did this" or "They...
Hurricane Sandy: Jack Kirby foresaw it!
Jack Kirby had some imagination, as the first issue of KAMANDI shows. Some of it even came true!
Great cartoonist photos: Los Bros Hernandez visit Jack Kirby’s birthplace
While visiting New York, Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez made a pilgrimage to the birthplace of Jack Kirby at 147 Essex St. and the result is one of the most wonderful photos I've ever seen....
Celebrate Kirby's Birthday with a contribution to the Hero Initiative
It's no secret that for the greater part of his later years, Jack Kirby was greatly concerned with leaving a financial legacy for his family. His whole life he'd worked night and day creating entire universes...and although his creations had gone on to become multimedia sensations, because of the way the comics industry was set up, he was in no position to benefit from it.
Happy 95th Birthday, Jack Kirby
My favorite Kirby now is the more crazy abstract stuff, so my selection favors that. Of course there was much more to Kirby.
SDCC 12: Kirby meets Kandinsky
Andrei Molitiu, he of Abstract Comics fame, is moderating afascinating sounding panel, along with Mark Badger. that looks at Jack Kirby and the abstract art.
HeroesCon proves thirty is fabulous
Whoosh! HeroesCon just raced on by! We arrived late on Thursday, hit BarCon and the rest was just WHOOSH! So much fun, we barely had time to type about it at all. That isn't to say there weren't some snafus—all on our own part—but they came and went so quickly.
How helping the Jack Kirby Museum could be the best response
Creator/publisher Zak Sally weighs in on the Kirby Matter, and the actions he suggests are more proactive:
actually, over the course of writing this, i think i DO have an answer– not THE answer, but an idea anyway: it’s somewhat presumptive on my part, and it is NOT what “should” happen, but it falls under the category of “the least you could do”.
You can never go wrong with Jack Kirby
I usually don't comment on my activity or lack of it any more, but I have pressing matters which preclude commenting on some of the big stuff going on—I'm still working on that damn TCAF report—including the ongoing Jack Kirby/Avengers/creators rights matter. Or the matter of the day as I like to call it. I've been saving up my links and girding my loins. I guess I feel a bit defensive about it because not commenting on something is often attacked as condoning this or supporting that. My thoughts are complex and I don't want to dash something off; it's too important for that.
Kirby-inspired fashions hit the runway in Australia
For Australian Fashion Week, Romance Was Born designers Anna Plunkett and Luke Sales went all Jack Kirby with an "exuberant" mix of stripes and patterns.
