Jack Kirby has been called "the king of comics" by his legions of fans, a "comics artist's artist," by fellow creator Kevin Eastman, and the "greatest artist in the history of comic books," by Frank Miller, yet another comic book artist influenced by...
One of the most prolific and influential comic-book creators, Jack Kirby is deservedly known as "the king of comics." Kirby, born Jacob Kurtzberg, grew up on New York's tough Lower East Side. The brawls and colorful characters of...
Jack Kirby (born Jacob Kurtzberg, August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994) was one of the most influential, recognizable, and prolific artists in American comic books, and the co-creator of such enduring characters and popular culture icons as the...
His official title was staff artist at Marvel Comics, but Jack Kirby was actually an architect. He built fantasies. Three generations of young people have escaped into the pages of a Kirby-drawn comic and have believed, at least for a moment, that they...
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- Jack Kirby, the artist who helped reinvent the comic book superhero for a new generation, died of heart failure Sunday at his home. He was 76. Mr. Kirby worked at powerhouse comic book publishers Marvel and DC to help...
The Disappointment Artist, by Jonathan Lethem. Doubleday, 149 pages, $22.95. In the summer of 1977, Jonathan Lethem saw the movie Star Wars 21 times. Not that many times, really-if anything, in the annals of Star Wars geekdom, it qualifies as merely a good start-but...
Brett Ratner’s X-Men: The Last Stand, from a screenplay by Simon Kinberg and Zak Penn, based on the Marvel Comics characters created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, has already suffered all the critical slings and arrows inevitably directed at the third reworking of a...
