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The smart folk told us to think Jack Kirby – Keith Gifen is one of the biggest Kirby admirers you can find and has a style that plays off Kirby wonderfully. We've now been told by sources that it's Forever People, based on the Kirby comic from 1971 and part of his Fourth World cross continuity[...]

In 1941, Jack Kirby and my grandfather, Joe Simon, dreamt of Captain America in an attempt to keep their heads above the turbulent waters of the comic book industry Much to their surprise and joy, the character went on to receive worldwide fame. [Me and my grandfather after his book My Life in Comics was published] I[...]

Strange says, it's worth the hunt. The Mighty Thor, Vol 2 (Marvel Masterworks) Thor first appeared in Journey Into Mystery #83 in 1962, created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Lee's younger brother and frequent scripter, Larry Lieber Introduced during a very short period of unprecedented creativity, Thor was debuted the same month as Spider-Man in Amazing[...]

I couldn't come up with a solid four that I felt good about… so I figured I'd turn it back to you, the Bleeding Cool readers. Who would you pick as the four most important people in the history of comics? Here are some of the candidates that I came up with. Jack Kirby – I'm thinking[...]

Julius Schwartz and Jack Kirby from 1987. Jackie Estrada began helping to put on the San Diego Comic Con in the seventies, and currently administers the Eisners Awards, as well as co-publisher of Exhibit A Press. During which time, she took a photo or two.  Or two hundred. She is currently running a Kickstarter to fund the production of[...]

Jack Kirby's Captain Victory And The Galactic Rangers are returning to comic book shops this July thanks to Dynamite Entertainment Written by Joe Casey – with Farel Dalrymple, Ilises Farinas, Michel Fiffe, Nathan Fox, Jim Mahood, Benjamin Marra, Jim Rugg and Connor Willumsen. Jack Kirby's Captain Victory And The Galactic Rangers are returning to comic[...]

Vassallo, that — not only gives us a completely new look at something that many of us "old timers" always knew, but actually presents us with an alternate theory of why Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko left their long-time associations with Marvel. According to the authors, these two giants of the industry and pillars of Marvel itself probably left the[...]

Scott Dunbier of IDW Publishing posted this to the Jack Kirby Fan Group on Facebook, calling for help on missing art for the Jack Kirby New Gods Artist's Edition. Hello Kirby fans, I'm working on the Kirby New Gods book and I'm looking for four missing pages: New Gods #1, page 8 New Gods #2, page[...]

Jack Kirby also did it with the Celestials Jonathan Hickman tried it with SHIELD, as did Victor Gischler and vampires Will Inhumans be embraced more successfully by the fans than the last two? Inhumanity #1 is certainly a good place to start. Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, currently exhibiting the work of some rather well known comic[...]

CHANGING TASTES CM-Life looks at local shop, Hall Of Heroes, of Central Michigan; Owner Michael Schuler said sales have changed over the year. Due to the

An original October 20th 1968 Sunday strip from Peanuts estimated at $50,000+ Page 14 from Fantastic Four #55 by Jack Kirby and Joe Sinnott estimated at $50,000+ and a hand painted cover by Carl Barks for Uncle Scrooge #43 estimated at $20,000+. For more information about the auction visit Heritage Auctions. Don and Maggie Thompson have[...]

Plus they got to announce things with Jack Kirby, Jim Steranko, Charles Schulz, Darwyn Cooke, Dave Gibbons, James O'Barr and Frank Bill Pretty impressive list. This was the week that was: Three new Artist's Editions were announced for Jack Kirby, Dave Gibbons and Charles Schulz. A second My Little Pony series will make it's debut next year. A pair of Artist's[...]

And these offerings are truly blockbusters—Jack Kirby's New Gods Artist's Edition and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen Artifact Edition For the first time ever, readers will be able to see up close Kirby's energy and dynamic storytelling, and Gibbons' intricately designed and beautifully realized pages, as they never have before—as close as possible to how they looked[...]

An artist. Who seems to have a resemblance to a certain Desaad/Darkseid/New Gods creator, Jack Kirby. The moment is unresolved A promise that Desaad will return to this particular problem And the realisation that now, Jack Kirby is part of the New 52…. Can't wait till he gets turned into a cyborg. Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London[...]

  Hannah Means-Shannon, senior New York Correspondent at Bleeding Cool writes from Hang Dai Studios, Brooklyn; In honor of Jack Kirby's 96th birthday, so widely celebrated with tributes on the internet from fans and comics creators alike, Brooklyn-based artist Dean Haspiel (The Fox, Billy Dogma), sat down to face the challenge of inking an iconic Kirby promo[...]

Over on the Kirby Museum page Steve Brower has done up a nice article about some of the myths surrounding Jack Kirby and sets the record straight He talks about whether or not Stan Lee made Jack famous, if Jack inked himself or if Jack was only a penciller This one stood out to me as it's[...]

Today would have been Jack Kirby's 96th Birthday To honor the King, the Hero Initiative put together Wake Up And Draw, an event where artist simply draw an image with Kirby in mind and post it on Twitter with the hashtage #wakeupanddraw… The images will then be collected at one place to see and eventually auctioned[...]

Puaca writes for Bleeding Cool If Jack Kirby were still with us, he'd be celebrating his 96th birthday today Unfortunately, Kirby died in 1994, robbing the comics world of one of its pioneers and most talented creators A few years ago, comic fans created a web holiday, to be held on his birthday, to promote the[...]

  Shawn Demumbrum writes; Jesse James of Jesse James Comics and I have been working on a tribute comic to help support the Kirby4Heroes campaign to raise funds for the Hero Initiative in celebration of what would have been Jack Kirby's 96th birthday  We enlisted the help of comic book creators Eric Mengel and Denny Riccelli to help recruit artists to contribute[...]

The Hero Initiative has come up with a way to celebrate Jack Kirby's 96th birthday by recruiting 40 artists to Wake Up And Draw! Each artist will celebrate the day by sending a "birthday card to Jack" The artists will show their project by tweeting the progress with the hashtag: #WakeUpAndDraw A gallery of the completed work[...]

In a video message presented by Jillian, Jack Kirby's 17-year-old granddaughter, Kirby 4 Heroes calls on comic book readers to help honor one of the all-time great artists by donating in his name to the Hero Initiative between now and August 28th Their goal is to raise $10,000 for the charity that helps comic creators[...]

Circuit Court of Appeal has just ruled Jack Kirby's heirs have no rights to his work for Marvel Comics and has upheld the ruling that the works are to be regarded as "works for hire" and owned by Marvel. Freelance creator, Jack Kirby fell out big time with Marvel comic and both he, his late wife[...]

From today's All New X-Men. The Beast thinking careless thoughts in the presence of a new telepath... but what's this about not having the guts to grab

The two pieces of Jack Kirby art that were crucial in the CIA's plan to save the hostages from Tehran as depicted in the movie Argo, went under the gavel today and did far better than expected Both pieces were expected to bring in $10,000.00.   The piece entitled Planetary Control Room went for $23,900.   And Pavilions of[...]

The artist tasked for this job was comic legend Jack Kirby In the film Michael Parks played Kirby, but is screen time was brief The art he created though played a much bigger role in the final escape. In 1993, Jim Lee was still new to the comic industry but he was a big fan of[...]

This week we are going to move across town to the self-proclaimed House Of Idea and take a look at a creation of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. The year was 1964 and Marvel Comics was cranking out book after book with only a handful of artists and one True-Believing writer Issue 8 of X-Men came[...]

"We do this because we love it," said Matthew Here's some of the work by Jim Lee, Mike Deodato and Jack Kirby in its original form… In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations, coincidences or works of the lightbox[...]

Or Jack Kirby It's the same thing. Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London, currently exhibiting the response-to-Lichtenstein galley, Image Duplicator. Jorge Lucas may be doing his best Kirby Batman over at Batman Inc this week But Young Avengers has a go as well Not only do they do a great job of making sub text into[...]

It will include work by Joe Simon, Jack Kirby, Al Williamson, Jim Steranko, Alan Moore, Michael T Gilbert, Sandy Plunkett, Scott Hampton, Bill Sienkiewicz, Dave Johnson, Garry Leach, Stanley Lau, Toby Cypress, Dave Elliott, Barnaby Bagenda, Norman Felche, Alex Shiekman, Mark Kneece, Dominic Regan, Madeline Holly-Rosing, Emily Hu, Sakti Yuwono, Jessica Kholinne, Bambos Georgiou and[...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7se3sxrVYhE[/youtube] After last week's Marvel Creative Summit video from Patrick Willems, now we get Part Two! Featuring bad Scottish accents, bake sales, Anne Hathaway, Jack Kirby's ghost and so much more! And catch up on Part One here… https://www.facebook.com/kidapocalypse [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7se3sxrVYhE[/youtube] After last week's Marvel Creative Summit video from Patrick Willems, now we get Part Two! Featuring bad Scottish accents,[...]