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Jack Kirby was the creator or co-creator of almost every Marvel Comics super-hero and villain you ever heard of, including The Fantastic Four, Magneto, the X-Men, and Doctor Doom. Ben Varkentine says this book may not be the place to start for newcomers, but fans will have a picnic.
THE COLLECTED JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR: VOLUME ONE BY JOHN MORROW (EDITOR) TwoMorrows Jack Kirby was the creator or co-creator of almost every Marvel Comics super-hero and villain you ever heard of, including The Fantastic Four, Magneto, the X-Men, and Doctor Doom. And that's the tip of a mighty big ...
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Ben Varkentine introduces you to Mark Evanier's unique and interesting "Point Of View" with a review of the writer's new essay collection, Comic Books and Other Necessities of Life.
... 1969, television since 1974, and has worked for and/or with legends and bottom-feeders alike in both forms. In comics, he apprenticed with the late Jack Kirby and has collaborated with Sergio Aragonés (who illustrated this volume) on various projects for decades. In television he wrote for Garfield ...
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Ben Varkentine returns to the mysterious plane of Mark Evanier's marvelous Point Of View with a review of the writer's new essay collection, Wertham Was Right! And it's a gas...
... so admires such as Gil Kane, whom he memorably eulogizes here. Speaking of how Kane successfully adapted to the revolution of artistic style which Jack Kirby brought about in the Sixties, Evanier writes, "He did not copy Kirby. He figured out how to get to a like-minded place (visually, at least) via ...
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All hail the lowly inker, whose work in comics is always seen but rarely noticed. Matthew Moyer takes a gander at this retrospective on Marvel's Joe Sinnott and feels the impact.
... (and whose legacy still completely supports the multimedia licensing giant) the foundation of the Marvel Universe, some names readily spring to mind: Jack Kirby, Jim Steranko, John Romita Sr., the Buscema brothers. If you know any of these names then you're already intimately acquainted with the work ...
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It won't be long, mark Rob Levy's words, the time has come for revenge of the nerds!
... collecting, fanaticism and tales of adolescence gone by, two common threads emerge, the battle between the DC and Marvel Universes and the genius of Jack Kirby. An absolute certainty that is brought up several times (most passionately by Jonathan Letham) is that Jack Kirby was a genius. Even today he ...
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Director Sam Raimi brings the Marvel Comics hero who "does whatever a spider can" to the big screen for the first time. Can he swing from a thread? Take a look at Ben Varkentine's review to find out!
... a cameo) and Steve Ditko properly credited as Spidey's creators, which has not always been the case with comic book derived movies (rest in peace, Jack Kirby, Joe Shuster, and Jerry Siegel ). Maguire does well as Parker, before his change, he is the mild-mannered high-school student with just enough ...
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It's easy to appreciate a comic artist's craft. But what goes on behind the scenes? How does a Great One get to be... well, Great? Matthew Moyer gets the scoop on Walter Simonson in the latest installment of TwoMorrow's Modern Masters series.
... innovate the visual vocabulary/presentation of sequential art, while still packing that visceral punch (pun intended) that you could only get from a Jack Kirby comic. Simonson just might be the Gang of Four of superhero funnybooks; his rendering style is kinetic, angular and almost abstract but your ...
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Still depressed over that last Spider-Man movie? Matthew Moyer recommends you pick up this collection of interviews with Spidey artist extraordinaire Romita and travel back to a simpler time in Marvel Comics. Face it tiger, this is your lucky day!
... age face who had a cup of coffee with Marvel and miraculously Romita remembers something about every single one. Poker games, office politics, Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, Jim Shooter, the Playboy Club, romance comics, New York City, all these topics and more - it's just dazzling. I love the sense of New Yorkness ...
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Who was the Blue Beetle? Matthew Moyer finds that the back story for this overlooked superhero contains more mystery and intrigue than Charles Foster Kane's. Rosebud? Scarab?
... of very innovative advertising cross promotional gambits on his flagship character including a radio show, a daily and Sunday comic strip (done by Jack Kirby!), a fan club, cola tie-ins and toys (often beating his competitors to the punch, although with less success). The story of Blue Beetle at Fox ...
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It's just a comic, right? Wrong. Matthew Moyer examines this anthology from the celebrated fanzine Alter Ego, full of comics passion, knowledge and treasures.
... Ego, and most likely the staff's tenacity, they score dream interview after dream interview with titans of the 4-color funnies world -- Gil Kane, Jack Burnley, Larry Lieber, Irwin Hasen -- solicit writers or artists from the time to write articles on their experiences in comics, and write in-depth, ...
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