King Kirby

The Art and Words of the greatest Comic Book Artist EVER. This Blog is not just Kirby Fandom; it's Kirby Activism. Jack Kirby's words are less represented when his unsurpassed contributions to Pop Culture are at their highest point. When millions are exposed to his characters via Films, how many of those millions know the name Jack Kirby? The purpose of this Tumblr is not just to share Artwork we like but also to share the thoughts of the man known and recognized as the ONE TRUE KING.

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Kirby's work with Joe Simon in the 40's and 50's broke barriers and expanded the limits of the form. 

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”It's not in the draftsmanship, it's in the man. Like I say, a tool is dead. A brush is a dead object. It's in the man. If you want to do it, you do it.”

Jack Kirby

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“If you’re an aggressive individual and you want to make this your field — and there is no school. You make your own school. You make your school. I say that you borrow arms and legs and heads and necks and posteriors from anybody you can. In comics, which is a peculiar field, every man — every artist — is the other artist’s teacher.”

Jack Kirby

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The Sad Avengers

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Detail from Avengers #5.

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The Stork Brought Us, Handsome

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Doc Doom Rants A LOT

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Poor Ben, it seems so cruel!

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May 1962: Radiation is Dangerous! (The Incredible Hulk #1)

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In Honor of Valentine's Week: Ladies, No-one says it smoother than the Sub-Mariner!

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Mind control

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Isn't this a cool gif?

Made by Kerry Callen

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Renato Stevanato pays tribute to the ‘King of Comics’ on the anniversary of his death 21 years ago on February 6th, 2015.

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In lasting memory of the King of Comics! This wonderful tribute is by Renato Stevanato.

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"So many things have happened to me that they’d say it all couldn’t have happened to one person. Who would think that I would be walking through French towns or meeting with the SS or French farmers? Who ever thought that I’d be going up to the Bronx? Who ever thought that I’d be going to Brooklyn — I went to Brooklyn and met Roz. That’s where I met my wife. Let me say this: most of the guys who lived on the East Side stayed there. It became part of them. But for some reason that I can’t understand, I hated the East Side, I hated being poor.

I hated to fight all the time just to enjoy my day. Fighting wasn’t the kind of thing that I enjoyed, but I grew toenjoy it because I did it so long. In the Army when we had judo classes, out of the class of 27 just me and another guy graduated. Yes, I grew to enjoy it because I knew I could do it well. I tried to do everything well."  - Jack Kirby

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"If I had to, say, give up my life for my family, I wouldn’t hesitate a minute, and if I had to do anything for a good friend, I wouldn’t hesitate a minute. I wouldn’t ask any questions at all. I’m that kind of a guy. I’m a guy who’ll do it. If you ask him to do it, and he wants to do it, you’ll get it full measure. I’ve never done anything half-heartedly. It’s the reason my comics did well. It’s the reason my comics were drawn well. I can’t do anything bad. I won’t do anything bad, and I resent very deeply bad people who haven’t got the ability, who try to interfere with the kind of work I’m trying to do because nobody’s going to benefit from it. If you’re a thorough professional, and they won’t let you do a professional job, nobody’s going to benefit from it. The people who produce it won’t benefit. The people who buy it won’t benefit from it. They’re going to get a half-assed product, and I believe that’s what the editorial people in comics at that time bought. They bought a half-assed product, or they created a half-assed product, and that’s what they got in return, they got half-assed returns." - Jack Kirby

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"I can’t do anything bad. It’s got to be professional. It’s got to look professional. It’s got to read professional. In other words, it serves its purpose by entertaining a reader, see? If a carpenter makes a chair that’s comfortable for the person who’s going to sit in it, he’s done his job. If a train engineer gets a train in on time, he’s going to make someone happy who’s waiting at the station. And if an artist draws the kind of a picture that people are going to enjoy looking at, or he makes a visual story which people are going to enjoy reading, he’s done his job. I can say that I’ve done my job extremely well. My only beef is that a lot of people have put their fingers in whatever I’ve done and tried to screw it up, and I’ve always resented that. I always resent anybody interfering with anybody else trying to do his job. Everybody has his own job to do. If he’s good, he’ll do well, but if he’s mediocre, he’s not going to do as well as he should. I believe that I’m in a thorough, professional class who’ll give you the best you can get. You won’t get any better than the stuff that I can do."  - Jack Kirby