[208] Working for Eisner, Kirby initially inked with a pen, not confident enough in his ability to use the Japanese brushes Lou Fine and Eisner preferred. [63][64] For almost a decade, Kirby provided Marvel's house style, co-creating with Stan Lee many of the Marvel characters and designing their visual motifs. Kirby would rarely erase while working; the art, and therefore the story, would flow from him almost fully formed. 1965: Best Short Story – "The Origin of the Red Skull", by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, 1966: Best Professional Work, Regular Short Feature – "Tales of Asgard" by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, in, 1967: Best Professional Work, Regular Short Feature – (tie) "Tales of Asgard" and "Tales of the, Best Professional Work, Best Regular Short Feature – "Tales of the Inhumans", by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, in, This page was last edited on 13 April 2021, at 00:22. The Superman figures and Jimmy Olsen faces drawn by Kirby were redrawn by Al Plastino, and later by Murphy Anderson. [272] On July 14, 2017, Jack Kirby was named a Disney Legend for the co-creation of numerous characters that would comprise Disney's Marvel Cinematic Universe. Strange, but Band's option expired. [6], At age 14, Kirby enrolled at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, leaving after a week. Senator Joseph McCarthy. "It was fine. 34. [4] Essentially self-taught,[5] Kirby cited among his influences the comic strip artists Milton Caniff, Hal Foster, and Alex Raymond, as well as such editorial cartoonists as C.H. [27] Kirby was drafted into the U.S. Army on June 7, 1943. Reply. Working closely with his partner Maggie Sawyer, Turpin was a hard-edged detective and loyal ally of the Man of Steel for years. [24][25] In July 1942 they began the Boy Commandos feature. A character would be drawn in one panel, but their shoulder and arm would extend outside the border, into the gutter and sometimes on top of a nearby panel. Created by Joe Shuster, Jerry Siegel, Bob Kane. Crestwood paid them $10,000 in addition to their recent delayed payments. ", DeFalco "1960s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 117: Stan Lee wanted to do his part by creating the first black super hero. Both truly maintained the integrity of Jack's pencils. [124] Kirby's final comics collaboration with Stan Lee, The Silver Surfer: The Ultimate Cosmic Experience, was published in 1978 as part of the Marvel Fireside Books series and is considered Marvel's first graphic novel. DCComics.com: Welcome to the Official Site for DC. He grew up in New York City and learned to draw cartoon figures by tracing characters from comic strips and editorial cartoons. Auction Alerts. [269] He received the 1993 Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award at that year's Eisner Awards. share. The partnership between Kirby and Simon had become strained. Different inkers would therefore impact on the published version of Kirby's art, with Kirby himself noting that individual inkers were suited to different genres. The last son of the planet Krypton protects his adoptive home of Earth as the greatest of the superheroes. Kirby's artistic style was one that captured energy and motion within the image, synergizing with the text and helping to serve the narrative. [30] Kirby recalled that a lieutenant, learning that comics artist Kirby was in his command, made him a scout who would advance into towns and draw reconnaissance maps and pictures, an extremely dangerous duty. [149] Phantom Force was the last comic book Kirby worked on before his death. 2007) and then a later final issue (Sept. [200] The advanced technology Kirby drew, from the Afrofuturistic state of Wakanda through the Mother Boxes of the New Gods to the spaceships and design of the Celestials is gathered together under the collective term "Kirby Tech". [17] The first issue of Captain America Comics, released in early 1941,[18] sold out in days, and the second issue's print run was set at over a million copies. Using this definition, Kirby's view and depiction of technology is that of it as something to be feared. [40], At the urging of a Crestwood salesman, Kirby and Simon launched their own comics company, Mainline Publications,[40][41] securing a distribution deal with Leader News[42] in late 1953 or early 1954, subletting space from their friend Al Harvey's Harvey Publications at 1860 Broadway. Kirby began writing and drawing for the comic-book packager Eisner & Iger, one of a handful of firms creating comics on demand for publishers. The whereabouts of these missing pages are unknown, although some do turn up for sale, provenance unknown. Related Categories. "Ploog & Kirby Quit Marvel over Contract Dispute", Manning, Matthew K. "1980s" in Dolan, p. 208: "In association with the toy company Kenner, DC released a line of toys called Super Powers ... DC soon debuted a five-issue, CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (. Log in or sign up to leave a comment Log In Sign Up. A comic-book series based on the show was published by DC and a toy line produced by Kenner. 1935 begann Kirby für die Fleischer Studios zu arbeiten, wo er den Popeye-Cartoon mitgestaltete. Through that company, Kirby did what he remembered as his first comic book work, for Wild Boy Magazine. At Lee's request, he often provided new-to-Marvel artists "breakdown" layouts, over which they would pencil in order to become acquainted with the Marvel look. The exhibition displayed photocopies of unpublished Kirby's pencils for stories intended for publication in the 2001: A Space Odyssey comic book adaptation series as well as reproductions of the published work. The Golden Age Guardian was Jim Harper, a police officer in Metropolis' Suicide Slum, friend and ally of the Newsboy Legion. [185][188][189] During the 1960s Kirby also developed a talent for collages, initially utilizing them within the pages of The Fantastic Four. Gallery [10] This included such strips as the science fiction adventure "The Diary of Dr. Hayward" (under the pseudonym Curt Davis), the Western crimefighter feature "Wilton of the West" (as Fred Sande), the swashbuckler adventure "The Count of Monte Cristo" (again as Jack Curtiss), and the humor features "Abdul Jones" (as Ted Grey) and "Socko the Seadog" (as Teddy), all variously for Jumbo Comics and other Eisner-Iger clients. [12], Kirby moved on to comic-book publisher and newspaper syndicator Fox Feature Syndicate, earning a then-reasonable $15-a-week salary. Er gilt als eine der bedeutendsten Personen in der Geschichte des Mediums. [11][112] Kirby produced three issues of the 1st Issue Special anthology series and created Atlas the Great,[113] a new Manhunter,[114] and the Dingbats of Danger Street. Many artists, including Carmine Infantino, Gil Kane and Jim Steranko have remarked on the unusual nature of his method. 1939). 20 days ago. Doctors considered amputating Kirby's legs, which had turned black, but he eventually recovered and was able to walk again. 25. There, he created the New Gods and told a story unlike any before told. The Guardian is a superhero legacy that is notorious for its many clones. However, Infantino and company were not receptive and Kirby's proposals only went as far as producing the one-shot black-and-white magazines Spirit World and In the Days of the Mob in 1971. He asked if we could do some freelance work together. [129], In 1979, Kirby drew concept art for film producer Barry Geller's script treatment adapting Roger Zelazny's science fiction novel, Lord of Light, for which Geller had purchased the rights. Fourth World Simon, inspired by Macfadden Publications' romantic-confession magazine True Story, transplanted the idea to comic books and with Kirby created a first-issue mock-up of Young Romance. Fury & his Howling Commandos: Shotgun Opera, Agent Carter: S.H.I.E.L.D. "[182], In the early 1940s Kirby would at times disregard panel borders. Jack Kirby's Fourth World 20 days ago. Brent Staples wrote in the New York Times: He created a new grammar of storytelling and a cinematic style of motion. Jacob Kurtzberg (/ˈkɜːrtsbɜːrɡ/; August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994), best known by the pen name Jack Kirby, was an American comic book artist, writer and editor, widely regarded as one of the medium's major innovators and one of its most prolific and influential creators. [8] "I went from Lincoln to Fleischer," he recalled. During the 1940s, Kirby regularly teamed with Simon, creating numerous characters for that company and for National Comics Publications, later to become DC Comics. The original Fourth World concept was intended as part of a finite epic saga, but for reasons that have never been satisfactorily explained, was never brought to its ultimate fruition. He left behind the diverse panel framing and layouts. 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[73] Kirby initially was assigned to pencil the first Spider-Man story, but when he showed Lee the first six pages, Lee recalled, "I hated the way he was doing it! [11], The team found its greatest success in the postwar period by creating romance comics. For DC around this time, Kirby co-created with writers Dick and Dave Wood the non-superpowered adventuring quartet the Challengers of the Unknown in Showcase #6 (Feb. 1957),[50] while contributing to such anthologies as House of Mystery. He later found an outlet for his skills by drawing cartoons for the newspaper of the Boys Brotherhood Republic, a "miniature city" on East 3rd Street where street kids ran their own government. Sanderson "1970s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 146: "As Marvel was expanding its line of comics, the company decided to introduce two new 'split' books ... McAvennie, Michael "1970s" in Dolan, p. 145 "As the writer, artist, and editor of the Fourth World family of interlocking titles, each of which possessed its own distinct tone and theme, Jack Kirby cemented his legacy as a pioneer of grand-scale storytelling. [176], Like many of his contemporaries, Kirby was hugely indebted to Milton Caniff, Hal Foster and Alex Raymond, who codified many of the tropes of narrative art in adventure comic strips. In his later years, Kirby, who has been called "the William Blake of comics",[1] began receiving great recognition in the mainstream press for his career accomplishments, and in 1987 he was one of the three inaugural inductees of the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame. 1961). [65], Highlights of Lee and Kirby's collaboration also include the Hulk,[66] Thor,[67] Iron Man, the original X-Men,[68] Doctor Doom, Uatu the Watcher, Magneto, Ego the Living Planet, the Inhumans[69][70] and their hidden city of Attilan, and the Black Panther,[71][72] comics' first black superhero, and his Afrofuturist nation, Wakanda. Kirby was married to Rosalind Goldstein in 1942. London of Kirby art, "Jack Kirby: The King of Comic Books", in the wake of Kirby's death. [103] He worked on The New Fantastic Four animated series, reuniting him with scriptwriter Stan Lee. [27] They scored a hit with the homefront kid-gang team, the Newsboy Legion, featuring in Star-Spangled Comics. He liked to draw, and sought out places he could learn more about art. [94], Kirby spent nearly two years negotiating a deal to move to DC Comics,[95] where in late 1970 he signed a three-year contract with an option for two additional years. In later issues, he demonstrated X-ray vision, super strength and the ability to fly. [37] Initially published bimonthly, Young Romance quickly became a monthly title and produced the spin-off Young Love—together the two titles sold two million copies per month, according to Simon[38]—later joined by Young Brides and In Love, the latter "featuring full-length romance stories". Lee wrote in his monthly column, "Stan Lee's Soapbox", "I mentioned that I had a special announcement to make. Kirby guest starred in the episode "Bounty Hunter" of, Kirby made an un-credited cameo appearance in the episode "No Escape" of, Kirby appeared as himself in the episode "You Can't Win" of. [102][103] Les Daniels observed in 1995 that "Kirby's mix of slang and myth, science fiction and the Bible, made for a heady brew, but the scope of his vision has endured. [198][199] Kirby Krackles are typically used in illustrations of explosions, smoke, the blasts from ray guns, "cosmic" energy, and outer space phenomena. There, Kirby met Rosalind "Roz" Goldstein, who lived in the same apartment building. Editor Robert Greenberger wrote in his introduction to the story that "As the fourth year of the Fantastic Four came to a close, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby seemed to be only warming up. In contrast, successors to the illustrative approach, such as Gil Kane, found their work eventually reach an impasse. View discussions in 1 other community. 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Lee would instruct other artists to draw more like Jack, and would also assign them books to work on using Kirby's breakdowns of the story so that they could more closely hew to Kirby's style. The figures became bigger and bigger, and they couldn't be contained by a single panel or even a single page". I'm not sure who else you could say did that. DC Database is a FANDOM Comics Community. [88], At this same time, Kirby grew increasingly dissatisfied with working at Marvel, for reasons Kirby biographer Mark Evanier has suggested include resentment over Lee's media prominence, a lack of full creative control, anger over breaches of perceived promises by publisher Martin Goodman, and frustration over Marvel's failure to credit him specifically for his story plotting and for his character creations and co-creations. OTHER. [171] His contributions to the comic book form, including the many characters he created or co-created and the many genres he worked on have led to him being referred to as the definitive comic book artist. announced the cover of, DeFalco "1960s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 115: "Stan Lee may have started the creative discussion that culminated in Galactus, but the inclusion of the Silver Surfer in. ", DeFalco "1960s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 99: "'Captain America lives again!' [220] In 2018 "A Jack Kirby Odyssey" was organised by Tom Kraft. I made them jump all over the page. OTHER: Zack reacting to Jack Kirby's Grandson and The Rock's support for AFSP. Even at rest, a Kirby character pulsed with tension and energy in a way that makes movie versions of the same characters seem static by comparison. Sykes, "Ding" Darling, and Rollin Kirby. [100][101], The central villain of the Fourth World series, Darkseid, and some of the Fourth World concepts, appeared in Jimmy Olsen before the launch of the other Fourth World books, giving the new titles greater exposure to potential buyers. He published 1,158 pages in 1962 alone. [133][134][135] This, together with similar actions by other independent comics publishers as Eclipse Comics (where Kirby co-created the character Destroyer Duck in a benefit comic-book series published to help Steve Gerber fight a legal case against Marvel),[136] helped establish a precedent to end the monopoly of the work-for-hire system, wherein comics creators, even freelancers, had owned no rights to characters they created.[137]. I was delighted and I took him over to my little office. [224] A large portion of Kirby's art remains unaccounted for. [11][62] The landmark series became a hit that revolutionized the industry with its comparative naturalism and, eventually, a cosmic purview informed by Kirby's seemingly boundless imagination—one well-matched with the consciousness-expanding youth culture of the 1960s. [184], When Kirby and Stan Lee came together at Marvel Comics, his art developed again. There, in the 1960s under writer-editor Stan Lee, Kirby co-created many of the company's major characters, including the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, Thor, the Hulk and Iron Man. His characters and representations became more abstract, less anatomically correct. More Coverage [11] His bizarre designs of powerful, unearthly creatures proved a hit with readers. He also realized that comic books weren't subject to the same constraints as the newspaper strip. The ongoing "kid gang" series of the same name, launched later that same year, was the creative team's first National feature to graduate into its own title. While these series proved commercially unsuccessful and were canceled, the Fourth World's New Gods have continued as a significant part of the DC Universe. This is an abridged listing of Kirby's comics work (interior pencil art) for the two main comics publishers, DC Comics and Marvel Comics. Initially with Christopher Rule as his regular inker, and later Dick Ayers, Kirby drew across all genres, from romance comics to war comics to crime comics to Western comics, but made his mark primarily with a series of supernatural-fantasy and science fiction stories featuring giant, drive-in movie-style monsters with names like Groot, the Thing from Planet X;[58] Grottu, King of the Insects;[59] and Fin Fang Foom for the company's many anthology series, such as Amazing Adventures, Strange Tales, Tales to Astonish, Tales of Suspense, and World of Fantasy. [172] Given the number of places Kirby's artwork can now be found, the toys based on his designs and the success of the movies based upon his work, Charles Hatfield and Ben Saunders declare him "one of the chief architects of the American imagination. When Jack Kirby returned to working for DC Comics in the 1970s, he introduced what would become known as the Fourth World concept. Share. [186] His backgrounds would be less detailed where he did not want the eye to be drawn. (under the pseudonym Jack Curtiss). Report Save. [201][202] John Paul Leon has described it as "It's tech; it's mechanical even if it's alien, but it's drawn in such an organic way that you don't question it. He entered the nascent comics industry in the 1930s, drawing various comics features under different pen names, including Jack Curtiss, before ultimately settling on Jack Kirby. First appearing in a short story by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon in Detective Comics #64, he didn’t appear under his own name until New Gods #5 by Jack Kirby … Panels themselves would overlap, and Kirby would find new ways to arrange panels on a comic book page. hide. The third book, Mister Miracle was more of a personal myth. [148] These titles were derived mainly from designs and concepts Kirby had kept in his files, some intended initially for the by-then-defunct Pacific Comics, and then licensed to Topps for what became the "Jack Kirby's Secret City Saga" mythos. He was a member of the war-time All-Star Squadron. You can imagine how it felt clownin' around with the co-creator of most of Marvel's greatest strips once more. [17] Kirby and Simon negotiated a deal that would pay them a combined $500 a week, as opposed to the $75 and $85 they respectively earned at Timely. From his blue uniform to his flowing red cape to the "S" shield on his chest, Superman is one of the most immediately recognizable and beloved DC Super Heroes of all time. I love all of this. [119] He created the series The Eternals,[120] which featured a race of inscrutable alien giants, the Celestials, whose behind-the-scenes intervention in primordial humanity would eventually become a core element of Marvel Universe continuity. Mister Miracle's wife was based in character on Kirby's wife Roz, and he even caricatured Stan Lee within the pages of the book as Funky Flashman. [141] After Kirby publicly slammed Marvel, calling the company thugs and claiming they were arbitrarily holding his creations, Marvel finally returned (after two years of deliberations) approximately 1,900[142] or 2,100 pages of the estimated 10,000 to 13,000 Kirby drew for the company. [260] The following year he was runner-up behind Jim Steranko. [11][94][97] Kirby picked the latter book because the series was without a stable creative team and he did not want to cost anyone a job. When Jack Kirby returned to working for DC Comics in the 1970s, he introduced what would become known as the Fourth World concept. ", DeFalco "1960s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 94: ", DeFalco "1960s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 111: "The Inhumans, a lost race that diverged from humankind 25,000 years ago and became genetically enhanced. [167] He was buried at Valley Oaks Memorial Park in Westlake Village, California. Thibodeaux provided the art for the remaining issues of the series after Kirby died. [125], Still dissatisfied with Marvel's treatment of him,[126] and with an offer of employment from Hanna-Barbera,[127] Kirby left Marvel to work in animation. He created a science-fiction based mythology revolving around ancient space deities known as the New Gods. Frühe Karriere. [75] Lee and Kirby gathered several of their newly created characters together into the team title The Avengers[76][77] and would bring back old characters from the 1940s such as the Sub-Mariner[78] and Captain America. "[13], After leaving Fox and collaborating on the premiere issue of Fawcett Comics' Captain Marvel Adventures ([March] 1941),[14] the first solo title for the previously introduced superhero, and for which Kirby was told to mimic creator C.C. [174] Kirby defined comics in two periods. I had to get my characters in extreme positions, and in doing so I created an extreme style which was recognizable by everybody. Superman was the first superhero with superpowers: out-of-thisworld abilities that enabled him to run faster than an express train and leap tall buildings in a single bound. In the twilight of his life, Kirby spent a great deal of time sparring with Marvel executives over the ownership rights of his original page boards. 1963: Favorite Short Story – "The Human Torch Meets Captain America", by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, Best Novel – "Captain America Joins the Avengers", by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, from, Best New Strip or Book – "Captain America", by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, in. In 1970, the comic book world was rocked when Marvel’s Jack Kirby went to rival DC. [191], Kirby's style in the late 1960s was regarded so highly by Stan Lee that he instituted it as Marvel's house style. [179] His reduction of the presentation of a given scene down to one that represents the semblance of movement has led Kirby to be described as cinematic in his style. "From Fleischer I had to get out in a hurry because I couldn't take that kind of thing," describing it as "a factory in a sense, like my father's factory. After passing a trial, they are allowed to meet God himself, who is depicted as Jack Kirby. Kirby and Simon created the romance comics genre, and working in this as well as the war, Western and crime genres saw Kirby's style change. Within the drawing, a field of black, pseudo-fractal images is used to represent negative space around unspecified kinds of energy. When Jack Kirby returned to working for DC Comics in the 1970s, he introduced what would become known as the Fourth World concept. [180] Having worked at Fleischer Studios before coming to comics, Kirby had a grounding in animation techniques for producing motion. [128] He illustrated an adaptation of the Walt Disney movie The Black Hole for Walt Disney's Treasury of Classic Tales syndicated comic strip in 1979–80. Despite the issue 's popularity, it was perhaps the most fertile period of any title. He did designs for Turbo Teen, Thundarr the Barbarian and other animated series for television of working the! 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