‘the king’, as jack kirby is known to comic book fans, helped lay the foundation for marvel’s movie universe. Jack kirby designed countless characters and locales, and being a comic book artist, drew thousands and thousands of drawings to tell his stories. In 2006, we initiated the jack kirby digital archive project with an ambitious aim—to scan every piece of jack kirby’s original art and related artifacts.

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When cia officer tony mendez was working up a cover story. In his early years, kirby. Jack kirby (born jacob kurtzberg;

Over the length of a career that has spanned seven decades jack kirby has been credited with illustrating over 24,000 pages of comic book art, making him the most prolific comic.

Art and prints from jack kirby the king of comics. View jack kirby original comic art for sale at auction. Beyond that, fantastic four was where jack kirby redefined modern comic book art, giving us the structure, pacing, and design elements that still define comic books to this day. And last winter, a highly praised show at. Celebrating the birthday of jack the king kirby! This archive preserves jack kirby’s wonderful works in a lasting archive of high resolution scans to standards used by museums and libraries around the world. See the link for an extensive preview and ordering information, or check with your. But hatfield’s exhibition, “comic book apocalypse: