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Marvel To Publish Jack Kirby And Steve Ditko Colouring Books

Published Wed, 09 Nov 2016 16:30:04 -0600

Last updated Sat, 12 Nov 2016 04:22:44 -0600

For Jack Kirby's 100th birthday year, Marvel are publishing a Color Your Own Jack Kirby volume coming out in August next year, Black and white images from Jack Kirby's art for the colouring of, 120 pages for $9.99.

But there are more to come.

Celebrate the Mighty Marvel Age of Coloring Books with the artistic legends that helped build the House of Ideas! Icons of the field such as Jack Kirby, the unquestioned "King" of comics, whose boundless imagination populated the emerging Marvel Universe with a cornucopia of colorful, costumed characters – including the Fantastic Four, Avengers and X-Men! His far-out fantasy masterpieces must be seen to be believed! Then there's "Sturdy" Steve Ditko, who ripped up the super-hero rulebook with Spider- Man and sent Doctor Strange into a psychedelic kaleidoscope of spellbinding dimensions! The incredible work of Kirby, Ditko and their celebrated contemporaries awaits in crisp black and white – and YOU get to stand on the shoulders of these giants by spreading the hues on some Marvel Masterworks!

Or, you know, you can buy back issues of the Marve Essentials volumes that Marvel did away with.

First person to get Steve Ditko to colour in one of his own volumes wins a prize.

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