All the artists there swapped ideas, pointers and critiques of each other’s work. By this time Will Eisner was a comic veteran of two years(!), but the studio was a great place to learn. It was around the same time as a very young Siegel and Schuster saw their Superman character appear in the first issue of Action Comics and superhero comics as we know them today were born. He began work at the Eisner-Iger shop, which packaged comic books for various publishers, some of which were overseas. In 1938,Jack began producing his first comic books. So prolific was he that he was asked to draw ever-increasing amounts of newspaper strip work, using different styles and under numerous pseudonyms such as, Brady, Lawrence, Jack Curtiss, Bob Brown, and Teddy. Jack’s first comic strip work was produced for Lincoln Features Syndicate. His Whizz Wagon, DNAliens, Evil Factory and the mysterious guy in the background, manipulating events, Darkseid, my favourite villain of all time, had me hooked right from the off.īig Barda – Pencils: Jack Kirby – Inks: Mike Royer It was when we first met that Jack became the helmsman on Superman’s Friend, The New Jimmy Olsen. It is for this reason that the examples I have included in this piece on Jack contain work, which I was actually around to see and was influenced by early on in my life and not his earlier work, which I saw later on.īy the time I was eleven and at high school, I had met my best friend Paul Roberts, with whom I shared a common, comics, and more importantly, Jack Kirby. My first memories of his wonderfully inventive work was on Marvel’s The Avengers, The Fantastic Four, The Uncanny X-Men and The Mighty Thor, although looking back on things now with hindsight I reckon I had seen a lot more of his work on DC Comics The Challengers of the Unknown and the like, due to seeing comics at my Uncle Bob’s house. It was not to be, but I have to point out here, as I have on other places on this and other websites that Jack’s work is the reason for me wanting to become a comic artist in the first place, from way back when I was at most eight years old. I had hoped to meet him one day, firstly at a UK Comic Art Convention in London where he was scheduled to be the Guest of Honour at and more especially when I was working in the US. Back when I was working at the Defiant offices, my colleague and buddy, Joe James, took me around to the area, as he knew I was a big Jack Kirby fan. The company produced the Popeye and Betty Boop cartoons.īack then, he lived with his parents in an area in Manhattan, New York called, The Bowery, which was certainly not the best part of town. One of the founding fathers of comics from the early days in the 1930s, Jack’s first work was at the Max Fleischer Studio, an animation company based at 1600, Broadway, near to Times Square New York, where he worked opaquing cels, before quickly moving up the creative ladder to clean-up work. Originally named Jacob Kurtzberg, he decided early on in his comics career that his name did not sound like a comic artist so changed his name to the one we are more familiar with nowadays. Jack “King” Kirby was born in 1917, in the Lower East Side of New York City. Sky Masters of the Space Force – Panel Detail – Pencils: Jack Kirby – Inks: Wallace (Wally) Wood Comic Projects: The Really Heavy Greatcoat.Comics Projects: Return to Planet Earth.Starblazer Checklist: Starblazer Abroad.Starblazer Recalled: Forgotten Fantasy Fiction – With Pictures.British Comic Reference | British Comic Characters Profiled | Garth.Marvel UK | “Genesis ’92”: Looking Back and What Might Have Been.Marvel UK in Print: Captain Britain, Death’s Head, Doctor Who and more – A Quick Guide.Action – The Sevenpenny Nightmare – Micro Site.British and Irish Creators and Publishers on Twitter.British Classic Comics and Creators on Facebook.British Comics Sales Figures: The Good Old Days.British News Stand Comics and Magazines for Teens, Pre-Teens and Children.Why Your Favourite British Comic Strip of 1974 Hasn’t Been Reprinted – Yet!.Lakes Festival Focus – Comic Creator Interviews.Roy of the Rovers – Rebellion Books Check List.2023 2000AD, Treasury of British Collections and Specials.
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