Showing posts with label ARTIST Jack Kirby. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ARTIST Jack Kirby. Show all posts
20 February 2014

Adding to the Fantastic Four Mythos?

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The core mythos of the Fantastic Four comics, launched in 1961 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, is that a family goes into space, gets turned i...
11 July 2013

Walter Mosley’s Childhood Favorites

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Here’s Walter Mosley answering the New York Times Book Review ’s question about his favorite childhood reading : I know that as a workin...
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08 December 2012

Argo Nots

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The movie Argo is a triumph of production design, recreating the look and sound of Teheran, Washington, and Hollywood in 1980. Which is abs...
03 May 2012

Who Would Win in a Debate—Batman or the Avengers?

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The hype for the new Avengers movie (especially in the Boston Globe ) has gotten so loud that it’s starting to make me forget the Kree-Sk...
01 July 2011

Peeking in on Kirby and Lee

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HiLoBrow just published Rob Steibel’s analysis of an original page from Fantastic Four , #63, that preserves handwritten notes and revision...
12 March 2011

Stan Lee’s Dialogues

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Bleeding Cool just published a long transcript of Stan Lee ’s deposition about the emergence of the Marvel superhero universe back in the e...
27 February 2011

Mascot Beyond Rescue

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The number of novels inspired by the death of the second Jason Todd (the Robin of the late 1980s) is very small. Peter David ’s Mascot to ...
16 February 2011

Supervillains Who Aren’t Really That Scary, #1

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After World War 2, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby , creators of Captain America , tried to get back into the superhero comics business with their...
10 January 2010

Boy Commandos and a Killer in the Big Top

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This cover to Detective Comics , #65, shows Batman and Robin welcoming a new team to the magazine: the Boy Commandos , created by Joe Simo...
28 August 2009

What Happened to Jack Kirby’s Panels?

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Today is the anniversary of the birth of comics artist Jack Kirby . [Strictly speaking, as I type that was yesterday, but a deadline meant I...
09 August 2009

The Other Boy Wonders of 1940

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As I described yesterday , in late 1939 American comic-book publishers apparently realized that preteen boys were their biggest audience, an...
17 May 2009

Robin Goes Up Against Crazy Quilt One More Time

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The Cartoon Network's Batman: The Brave and the Bold takes its subtitle and theme from the comic book that each month for much of its ...
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11 April 2009

“Spend a Week at the ’39 World’s Fair”

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I've been writing about how the British comic-book creators that DC hired to reinvigorate its line in the 1980s, such as Neil Gaiman , A...
02 June 2008

Graphic Epics Reviewed

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Today I'll link to John Hodgman 's long review in yesterday's New York Times Book Review of three notable epics in comics form...
29 May 2008

A Swipe at The New Yorker

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Bookshelves of Doom pointed me to an item in the New York Post proposing, in its tabloidy way, that New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss ha...
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