There are, it has to be said, some striking similarities
between the two. New Gods #1 was published in 1971, Star Wars came out 6 years
and 3 months later in 1977. Here’s a few
facts –
The FOURTH WORLD is a space opera, a Greek tragedy played
out among the stars with epic scope, an overshadowing war caused by previous
events, complicated families & lots of zooming around in space.
STAR WARS is a
completely different space opera, a Greek tragedy played out among the stars
with epic scope, an overshadowing war caused by previous events, complicated
families & lots of zooming around in space.
The FOURTH WORLD has
“The Source” a mysterious almost religious energy. Characters use the Source to
draw power from.
STAR WARS has
the completely different “The Force” a mysterious almost religious energy.
Characters “Use the Force” to draw power.
The FOURTH WORLD has a
hero, Orion, who is accompanied by a happy-go-lucky, reckless companion
called Lightray and trained by Highfather, an old man with incredible
powers.
STAR WARS has a completely different hero, Luke, who is
accompanied by a happy-go-lucky, reckless companion called Han Solo and trained
by Obi-Wan Kenobi, an old man with incredible powers.
FOURTH WORLD’s main villain is Darkseid (pronounced Dark
Side) whose real son was brought up by one of the good guys.
STAR WARS main
villain is the completely different Darth Vader (who uses the Dark Side) whose
real son was brought up by one of the good guys.
The FOURTH WORLD has Apokolips, an incredibly oppressive
planet-sized regime watched over by hordes of masked soldiers. Basically it
looks like a planetoid with big circles on the surface.
STAR WARS has
the completely different Death Star, an incredibly oppressive planet-sized
regime watched over by hordes of masked soldiers. Basically it looks like a
completely different planetoid with completely different big circles on the
surface.
The FOURTH WORLD has “Mother Box” an electronic device that
communicates by making “ping ping” noises.
STAR WARS has
the completely different R2-D2 a robot that communicates by making ping ping, beep
& whistle noises.
Jack Kirby’s the FOURTH WORLD has great character names like
Mark Moonrider,
STAR WARS has completely
different great character names like…. Luke Skywalker.
I could go on. Was Star Wars based on Jack Kirby’s Fourth World?
Kirby says - Don’t ask! Decide for
yourself! May the Source be with you.
....and to the person who commented saying Orion looks nothing like Luke, you were looking at a drawing of him with his helmet on. Here's Orion without his helmet next to a photo of Luke, you decide....
The
tired Colletta clichés are – “you either love him or hate him”, “he polarizes
opinion”. You hate him for ignoring Kirby’s pencils and leaving out stuff or
you love him for his fine feathered work on Thor, you hate him for not caring
enough about the art and employing “assistants”, or you love him for the letter
he wrote to Marvel when Jim Shooter left.
I
certainly started out in the anti-Colletta camp, a few years ago I even took a
side swipe at Vinnie on a BBC blog
I wrote –
“I met a man called Hans today.
Hans looks like Jack Kirby drew him. He has a large head, a brow overhang that
juts way over his eyebrows leaving his eyes in permanent shade, a thickset
square jaw, wide mouth and hands like industrial shovels. He must have been
inked by Vince Coletta though as his left thumb is missing.”
Now,
as well as learning to spell his name correctly, I’ve learned to appreciate him
slightly more, but I’d actually say I still agree with all those opinions above
to some extent, deleting-bad, Thor-good, assistants-bad, funny letter-good, so
I approached the book with mixed feelings and an open mind.
It’s
quite a slim volume, you’ll easily finish it in a couple of sittings, and there’s
not really a massive amount of biographical detail, some interesting quotes from
his family I hadn't seen before, lots of online stuff I had seen before. Art
examples, and decent panel comparisons, most pages have an example panel
or two, examples good and bad from across the span of his career, so giving a
fair and rounded view, which I liked. Not a hatchet job that just laughed at
his lazy deleting, or a love letter that ignored the negatives, it was balanced
by examples of his work that showed he could be great when he had time, and
gave some insights into why he often didn’t have time.
The
book is split up more or less chronologically, covering stages in his career.
The early chapters and the ones covering his time as art director for DC
probably interested me most, nothing really new in the Kirby section, and this
is a personal bias, but I would have loved to see a more detailed breakdown of
what exactly happened between him and Kirby, it’s covered, but I wanted nitty
gritty detail.
The
titbits of information from actress and model ladyfriends are fascinating, as
are the quotes from his family and insights into how his massive mortgage
overshadowed his life. His family mafia connections one generation removed that
he played up, and the affection with which just about everyone who worked with
him has.
If
you’re expecting a biography, this isn’t it, if you’re expecting a thick
coffee-table book devoted to Colletta art, this isn’t it either, but neither of
those things exist, so this is the best you’ll get for now, it’s a collection
of anecdotes collected via phone, email, and from online forums, peppered
liberally with art examples. That’s not a criticism of the research, nothing
wrong with getting your source material from phones calls and emails, the title
of the book isn’t misleading, it’s exactly what this is – people’s perspectives
on Colletta. I’d just have liked to see more personal information on the man
himself, more biographical details we don’t know, more photos from his life,
more pages. In saying that though, even a hardened comic lover who has spent
the last 40 years obsessing over Colletta’s inks will find something in here to
enjoy, and it’s a great springboard to use as a way to open up a fresh debate
with any Coletta hating/loving friends you have.
Most
disappointing omission is Jim Shooter, he declined to comment on the book
because he felt it would not give Colletta a fair shout, he was wrong, it does,
and it left me with a renewed admiration for the man. The best bits, like the
letter he wrote to Marvel and most of the Kirby panel
comparisons, I'd already seen, so that probably lessened my enjoyment, still
well worth reading though, I'd recommend it. An absolute must buy if you’re a
Colletta fan, but also highly recommended if you’re not, maybe you’ll learn to
appreciate Vinnie for what he was, the most prolific inker of all time, the man
who discovered Frank Miller, a complicated man who met his deadlines even if it
meant staying up all night in the poolhouse, working till he dropped, because
of that he cut corners and despite that produced some work that was
outstanding.
Should
you buy it? You know what Kirby said –“Don’t ask.” It's available now from TwoMorrows publishing.
The very latest Infinite Timelines commission has
been posted on ComicArtFans! This is Infinite Timelines: Primetime Paradox Chapter
11, just one of literally hundreds of commissions the incomparable Aidan “Re-Legion” Lacy
has posted. MC Wyman pencilled and inked this one, I did logos, titles and
added the lightening background.
If you need any comicbook lettering, logos,
titles or digital manipulation, get in touch. Price depends on the volume and complexity of the job. I’ll have availability to
take on larger projects from 31st July 2014.
Plenty of examples of my work can be found by searching under Russell Payne or Russ Payne on the Comicartfans website.
Captain America was created by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby
way back in the 1940s, but the movie Captain America: The Winter Soldier
contains much more Kirby content than just Cap, it is absolutely chock full to
the gills of Jack Kirby ideas, concepts and characters. It positively reeks of
Kirby. Here’s a breakdown…..
BATROC
Early on the character who leads the pirates is a French
mercenary called Batroc. In the comics he’s known as Batroc the Leaper, a
French mercenary created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee in the sixties, master of
French kick boxing. Kirby very kindly storyboarded the sequence for the movie decades
before it was filmed.
NICK FURY
Samuel L Jackson’s Nick Fury gets a lot of screen time in
Winter Soldier. In the comics, the original Nick Fury character started as Sgt
Fury in World War II, only becoming an Agent of Shield in his later years. The
Samuel L. Jackson version of Fury owes more to the Marvel Ultimate Universe
Nick Fury, and Jim Sterenko was responsible for moulding many of the aspects of
the Shield Nick Fury character, but still, Jack Kirby and Stan Lee first
created the character in the sixties, the name, the story, the eyepatch.
THE HOWLING COMMANDOS
When Steve Rogers visits the museum in the movie,the tour guide mentions the Howling
Commandos, and there’s a large backdrop showing characters from the first film
that Cap helped save from the Red Skull – all these characters – “Dum Dum”
Dougan, “Izzy” Cohen, “Pinky” Pinkerton and the others, all created by Jack
Kirby and Stan Lee.
SHARON CARTER
Remember the nurse who lived across the hall and turned out
to be a Shield agent? This was Sharon Carter, Agent 13, in the comics she went
on to become Steve Rogers girlfriend, among other things, she originally
appeared in 1966, created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee.
ARNIM ZOLA
When Cap visits the army base he was first trained at and
finds the underground SHIELD complex where Arnim Zola’s brain pattern has been
downloaded onto magnetic tape and he speaks to Cap via an indistinct green face
on amonitor? The movie only hints at
it, but in the comics Arnim Zola is a face on a screen that is embedded on the
stomach of a character who has a CCTV camera
for a head, a classic Kirby creation. Arnim Zola - created by Jack Kirby.
PEGGY CARTER
The old lady Cap visits, his love interest form the first
film, Peggy Carter (in the comics she was related to Sharon, originally her
sister, then her aunt, comic families are complicated),she is not surprisingly,
a character created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee.
JASPER STILWELL
Remember the bald guy they rescue from the ship? He says
“Shield don’t negotiate” and then later on turns out to be working for Hyrda.
That’s Jasper Stilwell, another Kirby/Lee creation.
SHIELD & HYDRA
The bad guys in this movie? It’s HYDRA again, an evil
organisation that infiltrates SHIELD. HYDRA – created by Jack Kirby and Stan
Lee. SHIELD? Created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee.
BARON STRUCKER, SCARLET WITCH, QUICKSILVER
In the first end credits sequence we see a man with a
monocle, almost certainly Baron Wolfgang von Strucker, another Kirby/Lee
character, and the big reveal is the twins in the prison cells, Wanda and Pietro Maximoff,
the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, both Kirby characters.
THE WINTER SOLDIER
If all these aren’t enough to show that the whole movie is
Kirby character driven - last of all, the character in the title of the movie –
The Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan), who to be fair isn’t actually in the movie
that much, is I hope you know by now, Bucky Barnes, Captain America’s best
friend in the first movie Captain America:The First Avenger and his teenage
sidekick in the comics. Bucky Barnes was created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby,
and first appeared in Captain America
#1.
Joe Simon & Stan Lee played their part of course, and
Steve Epting and Ed Brubaker gave us a lot of the story that is Winter Soldier,
but Kirby first created all these characters, their personalities, their
costumes, their stories, their abilities, so many of these in the movie are
straight from Jack Kirby’s head. Without Jack Kirby Captain America:The Winter
Soldier would not exist.
Captain America,
Nick Fury, Bucky Barnes, Agent 13, Batroc, the Howling Commandos, HYDRA,
SHIELD, Baron Strucker, Quicksilver, the Scarlet Witch, Arnim Zola, Peggy
Carter, despite all of these, Jack Kirby’s name is hidden away in the middle of
the end credits.....
“based on the comic by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby”
In a slightly smaller font than anyone else. Such a shame
Marvel/Disney can’t give proper recognition to the creative powerhouse whose
ideas are the foundation on which the “House of Ideas” is built.
If you want to know more about upcoming movies featuring
Jack Kirby characters, look up Jack Kirby on IMDB, currently 68 movies listed,
many of them (Ant-Man, Silver Surfer, Nick Fury, Fantastic Four) still on their
way. The box office belongs to Kirby, makes you wonder why he isn’t given more
recognition……
Did I miss any significant Kirby characters in Winter
Soldier? Let me know in the comments!
Stan Lee was interviewed again recently by that well
respected highbrow journal Playboy and yet again, like so many articles over
the years, he was down as the “creator” not “co-creator” of an impressive list
of superheroes- The Fantastic Four, The X-Men, Spider-Man, The Hulk, The
Avengers etc. etc.
For anyone who doesn’t know, Lee didn’t create these
characters on his own, some would argue the lions share of creation belonged to
artists like Jack Kirby, who would come up with the costumes, ideas, plots and sometimes
dialogue of the comics Stan “wrote”.
The really interesting snippet though was picked up on by
the Comic Alliance website where Lee says-
“There was never a time when it
just said ‘by Stan Lee.’ It was always ‘by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko’ or
‘by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.’ I made sure their names were always as big
as mine. As far as what they were paid, I had nothing to do with
that. They were hired as freelance artists, and they worked as freelance
artists. At some point they apparently felt they should be getting more
money. Fine, it was up to them to talk to the publisher. It had
nothing to do with me. I would have liked to have gotten more money
too. And twice, not once, I offered a job to Jack Kirby. I said to
him, ‘Jack, why don’t you work for Marvel with me?’ I was the art
director at the time. I said, ‘You be the art director. I’ll just
be the editor and head writer, and you’ll have that security.’ He wouldn’t do
it. He didn’t want a staff job. With him, as with Ditko, I don’t
see where they were unfairly treated. Jack was a great guy and so is
Steve. I’m sorry anybody feels there’s any acrimony. I loved them
both.”
Stan tells us “it had nothing to do
with me”. He washes his hands of the matter, he was a hired hand, so were they,
both battling against some faceless corporation. The little guys, trying their
best to make good. Good for you Stan. Excelsior.
OK. So what Kirby got paid had “nothing
to do” with Stan? Stan was in a position to offer Kirby a job. Not once,
apparently, but twice. Yet his position in the company meant he had “nothing to
do” with how Kirby was treated or what he got paid. Kirby built the Marvel
universe from the ground up, you’d think maybe he deserved a little recognition
for this, sure he got paid as a “work for hire”, but the work for hire he did
was the backbone of the entire company, and he was treated like another
disposable employee.
Stan is “sorry anybody feels there’s
any acrimony.” There was acrimony, Kirby felt bitter at the way he was treated,
his family still feel that bitterness, and they heard firsthand from their dad
how he felt. Kirby continues to not get media recognition for having co-created
the vast majority of superhero characters that are the stars of so many recent
and upcoming Marvel/Disney films.
Lee says he loved Ditko and Kirby.
Of course he did, they made him a lot of money by feeding him year upon year of
ideas that he still makes a living from while the Kirby kids resort to trying
to sue Marvel as the Kirby estate doesn’t see a cent of the billions of dollars
Kirby characters have made over the years.
Maybe Stan believes everything he
says in this article, he just doesn’t get why Kirby and Ditko felt aggrieved at
the way they were treated. Maybe he’s incapable of imagining how it feels to
see other people make a fortune from your creations and art, from merchandise
and action figures based on your designs and ideas. Maybe he’s just Stan Lee
and he imagines everyone else thinks like Stan Lee and can swallow their pride
and take the money.
It’s such a shame. When I was a boy
Stan Lee could do no wrong, he created the best club on earth, he used long
words that all started with the same letter, he was cool. I wish it had been like it was portrayed in the FF anuual when Stan and Jack tried to crash the wedding, two pals, no animosity, watching each others backs.
I wish he’d be cool
again and make a stand for Kirby, he could speak out and say his buddies Jack
and Steve don’t get enough recognition; he could make sure he isn’t credited as
the “creator” of Captain America when he had nothing to do with his original
creation, or the “artist” on Thor when he just filled in the speech balloons, he
could refuse to appear in Marvel films until a CGI
Jack stands next to him. Instead Stan Lee, one of the world’s finest self
promoters, the smiling survivor, continues to do what he does best, promote
Stan Lee. Jack turned down the art director job, I did all I could, it's nothing to do with me.
I don’t want to be down on Stan
though, he has done so many amazing things in his life, he brought me a lot of
joy as a kid, without Stan we wouldn’t have had the Marvel Universe as we know
it today, I’m glad he’s alive and enjoying life, I just wish he’d try to
understand why there still is acrimony and take a stand to even the scales. It’s
not too late. Jack died 20 years ago, but Stan is still here, if he lost that “It
had nothing to do with me” attitude he’d be able to redeem himself in the eyes
of comic book history and not be the guy who spent the last years of his life
promoting himself over the men whose shoulders he stood on.
Kirby said “comics will break your
heart.” It’s such a shame that the greatest creative force we’ve ever seen in
comics was paid in heartbreak instead of dollars, but we’re left with a legacy
of characters and ideas that still burn as bright as they ever did. As Stan
says “Jack was a great guy”. If Stan won’t, then make sure you let people know Jack
Kirby existed, use social media (#jackkirby), use conversation, be crazy and use
an actual pen, let them know he did such astounding things, that it wasn’t just
Stan that created these modern myths.
As anyone who has ever thrown a party knows, creating the
right atmosphere can be tricky. You can have all the right ingredients, but
still end up with a funereal mess, there’s no magic recipe, no secret formula,
sometimes it falls flat, sometimes it just works. LSCC
just worked this year, which I’m sure was actually the result of a lot of hard
work by the party throwers. It was obscenely busy, but still had a really nice
friendly vibe to it. Everyone seemed to enjoy it. No-one died. At least 17
Batmen turned up.
I travelled up with two friends and a daughter. Scott who
drove us down to London & dropped us off, John Watson was also a guest at
the con, and Chloe who was going to check out Westminster University. Last year
I drove down with John, but left most of his art on top of a cupboard in my
house 400 miles away, it was a failure of epic proportions, you can enjoy
John’s version of events on his blog.
This year was going to be a triumph of scheduling and
preparation, a well oiled organisation machine. John and Scott only had to wait
half an hour while I finished packing and we set off aiming to get to the Excel
for about 7pm.
The M6 was like a very long car park. We arrived at 11pm. The fail had started.
Scott dropped us off, very kindly insisting on a door to
door service despite the fact that travelling two blocks at the Excel Centre in
a car means driving in a complex series of one-way spirals.
John had arranged to meet up with people at a hotel that was
about 14 miles away from our hotel, so we opted to go for a direct straight
line of sight walking route that involved climbing over a line of metal fences.
John leapt over them like a gazelle, Chloe managed to dislocate her hip on the
third fence and I was left straggling the first hurdle in almost complete
darkness as Chloe and John progressed into the distance. Not entirely sure it
was a great idea introducing my 18 year old daughter to the seedy underbelly of
the comic book industry, but she coped very well with the torrent of filth and
deviancy.
The hotel breakfast seemed more like some sort of punishment
than a tasty treat you’d pay £8.95 for. Lukewarm scrambled egg, cold croissants
and the only thing the juice had in common with oranges was the colour. This
isn’t trip advisor, sorry, but hotel breakfasts should be a feast, this felt
like a punishment. I’m too nice to name the hotel, I just won’t be travelling
to that particular lodge again if I can.
LSCC was so busy
this year, the queue stretched to the horizon; I worried that those at the con
would be over by the time those at the end of the queue made it inside. It
didn’t happen though, the same metal fences I’d scaled just the evening before
were now efficiently herding punters in all the right directions. It was very
well staffed, very well co-ordinated, yellow STAFF t-shirts were everywhere,
despite losing the bit of paper that proved I had a pro-pass allocated, the
organisers sorted me out very quickly with a pass and we set up the table in
plenty of time for the mad rush of VIP
ticket holders at 9:30am.
I was invited to LSCC
because I volunteer for the Jack Kirby Museum and Research Centre, and to give
a talk called “You Don’t Know Jack?” about the late, great Jack Kirby, the
co-creator of the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, the Avengers, Captain America, the
Incredible Hulk, Ant-man, Iron Man, Thor,
The Silver Surfer, Galactus, the
Inhumans & oooooh many, many more. The main point was promoting the work of
the excellent JackKirbyMuseum,
whip up a bit of enthusiasm for Jack
Kirby & maybe even tell people a few things they didn’t know.
The Kirby talk went pretty well, more people turned up than
I expected, it was a really nice crowd
who were more than happy to chant “Jack Kirby” repeatedly and quite a few came
over afterwards to say they enjoyed it. I had some intelligent questions too,
one gent asking about the Jewish heritage of Kirby and other comic creators,
and another asking about Lichtenstein and recognising real artists from
plagiarists. I was secretly hoping more for “Who’d win Thor or Hulk?” type
questions but it was nice to get more in depth stuff. Also, a 16 year old girl
called Emily stood and queued up just to say thankyou to me for the t-shirt she
won as part of the talk, who says the youth of today aren’t nice? There’s a few
photos scattered around Instagram, Twitter and Facebook of the talk, although
they all seem to be using some sort of filter that makes me look bright red and
overweight. Odd.
Cosplay accounted for a lot of the footfall, a suspiciously
large amount of cosplayers seemed to be congregating just outside the con not
wearing passes, suggesting they maybe had zero interest in comics, or just zero
interest in paying to get in, but it went for the usual colourful mix. I saw
Bane having his photo taken with Zarina the Pirate Fairy while a Predator
holding a ghetto blaster walked past wearing heart-print Pyjamas.
However you
feel about cosplay, it’s hard not to enjoy the surreal combinations it
produces. I had no idea Predators liked UB40 so much. The Cosplay competition
was visible from where I was sitting across the auditorium and in a moment of
weakness I stood up to watch as Princess Elsa from Frozen did a number to “Let
It Go”. She threw some glittery snow in the air, it was quite magical. Some of
the lovingly hand-made costumes were genuinely stunning, it’s amazing what you
can do with some spray painted cardboard and a broom handle.
With all this visual spectacle going on, I always mean to take photos at comic conventions and this time I did actually manage to remember a camera and took possibly the worst comic convention video of all time-
Artists Alley was organised alphabetically, by first name so
it mixed up the small press and the pros and gave us an entire aisle of
“Daves”. I was sat with John Watson in the “J’s”, in between the My Little Pony
artist Katie Cook and Kate Ashwin the writer/artist for online comic
Widdershins. Kate writes, draws, colours and letters her comic and has been at it for years
so she had a range of books collecting
hundreds of webcomic pages and a steady stream of people who knew her
work. Great to see someone actually making a success of their own comic.
Funnily enough there was a comic writer there called Jack
Kirby, who was sitting nowhere near us but came over to say Hi. His actual name
actually was actually Jack Kirby, he showed me his actual driving licence. Jack
writes a comic called Alien in the Outfield, which I didn’t get time to check
out, but it references Bill Watterson so it can’t be all bad. He really should
change his pen-name though, it’s like someone born in 1994 deciding to work in
movies when their name is Steven Spielberg. It’s already taken. I wish him
every success though.
So many other names there whose work I didn’t know, you
always feel a bit guilty for not knowing someone’s work, but I don’t really
many read modern comics, I still think of anything published after 1985 as a “new
comic”, so I just chatted to a few whose work caught my eye. There’s still some
very talented people out there, not all of them might work for Marvel or DC,
but they produce results, wish I’d had more time to walk round and chat but I
was sitting behind a table for 95% of the con, so didn’t really get to meet all
the other guests, but did a whistlestop tour.
It was great to meet MikeGrell, the one time I felt a little
starstruck, and I caught up with friends at the bar in the evening, in between
naps. In fact during the whole con, I only came back with one actual comic,
a gift from the notoriously shy and retiring Jeff of
Closeencounters. Tiny Titans issue 1 for my youngest, a great comic series well
worth checking out if you have fledgling comic fans in the house.
I did spend a few minutes at one stall that had an
incredible collection of original art, Kirby 2001 covers, Eternal covers and
some really nice interior pages. Way out of my price range, but nice just to be
standing near them.
Very briefly saw Gary Frank and Chris Weston’s tables, they
both had some original art for sale that I really liked. Dan Slott seemed to
have the biggest queue, and one of the biggest beards.
There was that phenomenon where some of the unpublished
and/or small press artists had amazing stands and banners, 16 foot high full
colour extravaganzas with fairy lights, badges, flyers, t-shirts and
professional looking art and prints in nice plastic folders, while other more
established pros just had a pile of dog-eared original art, an A4 piece of
paper with their name on and a sketchpad.
The very best artists sometimes make the worst businessmen,
which is why I suppose you can sometimes get such great bargains at comic
conventions, but it always seems a shame when it becomes about buying something
just to sell it on ebay within a week to make a profit, it’s so much more
heart-warming when art is bought because the buyer loves it and it is just
going to give them pleasure to look at it and own it. There was plenty of that
sort of thing going on too and a few of the free sketches did for people got gasps of delight, which is
what a comic convention should be about, appreciating, sharing and enjoying the
art, characters and stories that bring such an odd group of people together in
one place.
At one point a little girl dressed as some sort of Manga
Princess came over to the table and told
me how much she likes drawing and asked me how she should draw lighting.
I told her to make sure all the shadows point in the right direction. She said
“OK”.
My work here was done.
So a particularly good comic convention with something for
everyone. Big thanks to George from LSCC
for inviting me to give a talk. Had a great time, lots of laughs, it was a
feast for the eyes, I met lots of people and hopefully helped keep the flaming
legacy of Jack Kirby burning, or at least blew on the embers.
If you would like to know more about Jack Kirby, visit the
Jack Kirby Museum Website. There's probably videos online somewhere of my LSCC talk, but here's one I gave last year at the Bristol International Comic Expo....
Just back from London and the 2014
London Super Comic Convention. Actually one of the best cons I’ve
ever been to, well organised, loads of attendees, good atmosphere, decent turn
out for the talk I was giving, talked to old friends, I met Mike Grell and I
got some work offers. Very little sleep and only eating only a jammie dodger for
dinner have taken a physical toll but I’m sure my fine tuned athletic
constitution will soon recover.
