Finally, what you’ve been waiting for! Like a screaming newborn child awash in afterbirth, below are our top five Kirby characters.
But what about the rest of the list, you ask? Ok:
20-16
15-11
10-6
5. Black Panther
AFD: Slick and austere: that’s the design for the Black Panther, whose classy costume works best in Kirby’s refined all-black version. The only [...]
Our look at Jack Kirby’s 20 best character design continues! Below are numbers 10-6.
The rest of the list:
Numbers 20-16
Numbers 15-11
10. Devil Dinosaur
AFD: We can wax pretentious and philosophical about Kirby all we want, but sometimes the basic reason for his popularity and obvious visual brilliance can be best explained as this: he was really great [...]
Hope you’re enjoying our look at Jack Kirby’s top 20 best character designs! Yesterday we covered 20-16, below are 15-11.
15. Mr. Miracle
AFD: Kirby’s tenure at Marvel during the 60s was obviously his most groundbreaking and successful, but his 70s work at DC, when he was given relatively free reign to build worlds with the New [...]
From the venerable Murray Roach comes this classic ad that Marvel would likely prefer to never think of again. Y’see, kids, back in the day, comic book artists didn’t get their original art back. For years they were cool with it, since they didn’t see any intinsic value in the original pages, but Kirby kind [...]
That’s right people: summer’s here, school’s out, the weather’s hot, the days are long, and it’s time for an A+ nerd out.
To distract ourselves from the cinematic abominations of the heavily hyped Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer — a film where Jack Kirby’s influence looms larger than Galactus, but his lively creative [...]
