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Name: Jack Kirby
Birth Date: August 28, 1917
Death Date: February 6, 1994
Place of Birth: New York, New York, United States
Place of Death: Thousand Oaks, California, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: Cartoonist, Animator

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Biography of Jack Kirby
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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...


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Kirby, Jack (1917-1994) Summary
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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...
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Jack Kirby Information
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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...


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The Independent - London
Obituary: Jack Kirby
02/11/1994: 1,165 words, approx. 4 pages
Jacob Kurtzberg (Jack Kirby), cartoonist: born New York City 1917; married (one son, three daughters); died Thousand Oaks, California 6 February 1994. "THE KING" is dead - the King of the comics, that is. Jack Kirby, cartoonist and creator of dozens of four-colour...
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The Boston Globe
Jack Kirby, comic books' superhero
02/08/1994: 515 words, approx. 2 pages
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...
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The New York Observer
Cultural Substance Abuse And Other Perils of Youth
3/20/2005: 1,226 words, approx. 4 pages
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...
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The New York Observer
Mutants on Mutants! Again! Does Ratner\'d5s X-Men Succeed?
6/11/2006: 1,252 words, approx. 4 pages
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...
 


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