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Happy 94th Birthday, Jack Kirby!
Posted: August 28, 2011
Today would have been Jack Kirby’s 94th Birthday, so why not raise a toast today and proclaim, “Hail to the King!”
You can listen to the special Kirby live panel event I hosted with Charles Hatfield (The Kirby Collector), Jason Atomic (Hail to the King exhibition curator), David Hine (The Bulletproof Coffin, Detective Comics), Garry Leach (Marksmen, Marvelman), Ed Hillyer (Manga King Lear, Skidmarks), and Mike Lake (Forbidden Planet, Lakesville) at Orbital Comics in July, which is now available as an Orbital Podcast.
I also recommend you read Chrissie Harper, Kirby connoisseur and contributor to my next book, 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die, out in October, who has written an important, insightful posting commemorating Kirby’s glories on her blog today.
A visit to the virtual Kirby Museum is also a must.
You can also watch four YouTube movies I filmed as a video-guided tour, floor by floor, to ‘The House That Jack Built’, the amazing Kirby exhibition Dan Nadel and I co-curated for the Fumetto Festival in Lucerne, Switzerland for ten days in May 2010: Ground Floor; First Floor A; First Floor B; and Second Floor.
And then check out my own assorted Kirby articles and book reviews here on this very site.
Happy Birthday, Jack!
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