Art of Jack Kirby! A Vibrantly Visual, Career-Spanning Monograph Made With Love!

[@steelbat54]

Since you guys are talking about your introductions to Jack Kirby I may as well tell you mine. It was around 1968/1969. I grew up in Forest Hills and there was a little dairy store on Ardmore Blvd. called Ted’s. Us kids would go in there all the time for our candy, pop whatever. Well, one time I was in the back of the store and saw that Ted had used comics for like .5 cents. I was always strictly a DC kid but something intrigued me about these comics. They were all Marvels so you know with that time period there was a lot of Kirby. I must have bought every copy from him because I ended up with probably 50 or more books. Fantastic Four, Thor, Captain America, etc. loved Kirby’s art. That began my love for Marvel comics. To this day I still have those comics. Now I buy new DC and Silver Age Marvel. It doesn’t get any better than that. Keep up the great videos.. 👍

[@russworks2882]

The Simon/Kirby "Inky" strip you passed over that was recut for a 1955 issue of In Love is something you might want to look into. It's a melodrama about a young cartoonist entering into a romanticized world of syndicated strips, dealing with struggling to find a story idea, corruption, femmes fatale and disillusion. It was meant to run as a newspaper soap opera and reads like a 40's screenplay that might've been written by Lillian Hellman or Leigh Brackett. Theakston reprinted it in one of the magazine sized issues of Buried Treasure.

[@henryseldon6077]

The greatest comic book artist of all time - Jack Kirby! He burnt through my imagination at an early age and I've have never forgotten the awesome one of a kind images that came from his mind. There will never be another.

[@Principles_of_Psychology]

Was first introduced to Kirby’s work as a 7 year old Dutch kid. An acquaintance of our family gave me a pocket-size reprint (translated into Dutch) of the first Avengers issues. Could not explain why, but was immediately drawn into this magical world of gods and monsters.

[@bigneon_glitter]

Jack Kirby is the "Pop Art Picasso". As the decades go on, his genius & immense originality becomes more apparent. This is Jack's world & we're just living in it.

[@56postoffice]

Though John Buscema is my favourite artist ever to draw at Marvel, can't dispute the ground breaking influence Jack Kirby's had on the industry. Hi from the UK. Big fan of this channel.👍

[@SpearedPage]

Curious, what comic title has your favourite artwork by "Big John" Buscema?

[@jamesneel6557]

John was one of the best! He had the dynamics and the subtlety

[@jamesneel6557]

@@SpearedPage Silver Surfer.

[@1971thedoctor]

This is a great video, Kirby is the undisputed King.

[@Choom89]

Great watch, thanks!

[@5colorcowboy]

Got to meet The King at Comic Relief …for this pre-signed book release … He waxed poetic on the “ endless budget/creativity one has in creating comics “

[@futurocomics]

Super enjoyable video to give you the juice to go back and keep drawing yourself!

[@guyiom5361]

1.16.00 left hand underlight on Mister Miracle is crazy. thanks for the trip guys. kirby was a game changer

[@ChuloAA]

Crazy ass coincidence, I just finished reading Sciolis Kirby book and saw this book mentioned and when I googled it to maybe cop I found that you guys had this video already made lol shits crazy

[@jeffreese1828]

That Avenger #4 is the best comic book cover of all time ! At a minimum it has the best drawing of Cap , ever ! They are just bursting off the page . I have a 1963 UK copy , it is VG and has 9d for the price and the MAR date is missing (because of distribution delay , they didn't add the month dates) . I paid $50 for it in 1989 . I love the pic so much that I have a huge wall mural that I bought online ( It is like 7 x 4 feet ) which makes Cap near life size .... Awesome !

[@wowcool5240]

Kevin Eastman financed the publication. Ray worked in the Tundra offices in the final stages of production. They should have had many more eyes on it. Then maybe there would not be the duplicate cover inside. When it was released everyone at Tundra got a copy. I always hated Kevin’s cover inks, but you guys have made me reconsider it.

[@cristiandiaz-el-tec]

THANKS FOR THE VIDEO, GREETINGS FROM CHILE!!!

[@xrisfractal]

Whew, thankfully I have this one already before the Kayfabe effect hits! Great great video!

[@jyrkivainio425]

In about 1996 I was still able to order a signed limited edition copy of this from Bud Plant's... which was very surprising to me, because Kirby had already passed away at that point.

[@erikkaye1114]

Hey, have you guys gone over The Book of Genesis by Robert Crumb? Would really like to see you go over that!

[@lucasmsg4178]

29:28 “you can imagine, little 11 years old Stan Lee with his ocarina in the room” 😂

[@panthergod]

Kirby is a Prophet of the Source.

[@dailycomicsfix]

Jack Kirby is THE King of comics....the story of Jack Kirby IS the story of comics. If there was a Mount Rushmore of comics, Jack would be first and head and shoulders above the rest.

[@JamesHaney]

Kirby’s sketchbook work has an almost Guy Davis line to them. Amazing, considering how his style evolved over his vast career. Long Live the King 👑! 🖖♾

[@kevinlkoehler]

I saw a Fleischer Studio group photograph - sure looked like Jack in there, and there was a Studio Party X-Mas card signed Jack, in an interview Jack said he worked on Betty Boop

[@jamesneel6557]

I hated Jack Kirby! . . . Until I had been drawing for like 15 years. Then I saw that I couldn't TOUCH what he was doing. I could get the anatomy. But Jack had the action!

[@RobRVA]

I have a signed copy of this.

[@drawrobot]

With his marvel era designs, I was curious much he was looking at Aztec & maya ruins. I see it especially on the fourth world stuff.

[@markcalhoun9480]

There is Kirby..then everyone else.....

[@kevinlkoehler]

Kirby = Sensibility

[@heavypen]

I finally got around to watch this video after it was recommended to me by John Morrow, Richard Kolkman and others. AJK was a labor of love that nearly killed me - literally and figuratively. To see it examined like this really made my day. Thank you for the thorough analysis - you guys came up with stuff I didn't even realize (lol). One thing I'd like to clear up - "Blue Rose Press" was a corp partnership between the Kirbys, Kevin, and me. We couldn't publish through Tundra because DC comics threatened to sue us if we did. Kevin didn't want the legal headache, thus Blue Rose was born. And on it goes...

[@empyreanvole]

I have this book!

[@APRESLOVIN]

Heavyweight!

[@0warlocknsoulgem0]

An ocarina is too cool for young Stan Lee. I bet it was a piccolo.

[@mikefiftynine]

Quite a bit of the My Date on page 63 doesn't look like Kirby.