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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Jan 26, 2018 21:00:00 GMT -5
Finished readin Kirby:King of Comics, about the legendary Jack Kirby. Great work by Evanier, fantastic art by Kirby throughout;wonderful read.Teared up at the end and got mad a few times at companies treatment of the greatest creator comics have ever known. Read it if you haven't.
It's really great; so many great pencil sketches, and just a testament to a creative genius without whom there wouldn't BE an artform such as comics, at least superhero stuff. And given the way movies etc have taken inspiration from so many of his concepts, Jack is hugely important to pop culture as a whole.
Great read.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jan 26, 2018 21:03:42 GMT -5
Been meaning to read this as I am a big fan of the King.
I do know some aspects and yeah, the industry as a whole mistreated the crap out of artists like him for a long ass time.
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Post by BorneAgain on Jan 26, 2018 21:15:57 GMT -5
I'm curious, how does Stan Lee come across in it? With relation to Kirby I've seen Lee described as everything from a shameless credit stealer adding little but dialogue to a more practical industry type who simply understood the business better than Jack did. Evanier knows his stuff, though so I'd be interested to see what his take is.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2018 21:26:21 GMT -5
I'll be honest, without 'Jack' in front of it this is where my mind immediately went.  |
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Jan 26, 2018 21:29:51 GMT -5
He's fair with Stan, particularly since Mark was so close to the Kirbys, but there are some instances where he doesn't come off that great. It's about what you'd expect, there's no real venom or anything, but when there were strains in their working relationship that's mentioned.
What really gets you angry is just how much Jack SHOULD have benefit from the comics industry financially, and how shabbily they treated him so many times given he was the well-spring for so many concepts and characters they're still using.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jan 26, 2018 22:35:27 GMT -5
Great book. Few years back SciFi book club was clearing them out at 5 bucks each.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Jan 27, 2018 14:26:40 GMT -5
Was lookin for a spot on the bookshelf to put the Jack Kirby biography. There was space just right to hold it, and lo and behold it was right next to the Stan Lee biography. Guess it was fate.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2018 20:58:21 GMT -5
Was lookin for a spot on the bookshelf to put the Jack Kirby biography. There was space just right to hold it, and lo and behold it was right next to the Stan Lee biography. Guess it was fate. Be careful with that. Your books might fight over getting credit for making the bookshelf look good or something. |
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Jan 27, 2018 21:02:47 GMT -5
I got almost the same response on Twitter haha.
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Post by BorneAgain on Jan 27, 2018 21:03:08 GMT -5
Was lookin for a spot on the bookshelf to put the Jack Kirby biography. There was space just right to hold it, and lo and behold it was right next to the Stan Lee biography. Guess it was fate. Be careful with that. Your books might fight over getting credit for making the bookshelf look good or something. I'd suggest putting the Ditko biography in between, but lord knows where that book is. |
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Jan 27, 2018 21:10:02 GMT -5
I've got a handwritten Ditko letter I could slide between em. There are no photos in it, as you'd expect.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jan 28, 2018 0:35:12 GMT -5
I've got a handwritten Ditko letter I could slide between em. There are no photos in it, as you'd expect. Mega jealous. I have always wanted to meet Ditko. AFAIK there is like 2 known pictures of Steve Ditko. Back about 10 years ago a rumor was going around that Steve Ditko was going to a comic con in the UK. I had already started preparing to travel to the UK for the con when word got out that the rumor was false. Best Ditko story I have heard was told by Steve Bissette. Seems years back Bissette went to visit Ditko at his home. Ditko was preparing they both something to eat. And Bissette saw that Ditko was using original art pages from his Silver Age Spidey and Dr Strange runs as cutting boards. Bissette explained to Ditko how the original art was worth good money. And Ditko didn't care. Got lucky enough to meet Jack Kirby a few years before he passed. Incredibly nice guy. Hoping to meet Stan Lee before he passes. |
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Jan 28, 2018 1:28:27 GMT -5
Yeah, I'd like to meet any of them. Steve's letter is interesting. I asked him about a variety of topics; toward the end of the letter I mentioned Objectivism and he really got goin and went off on a tangent about the U.N. and religion.
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