CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY JACK KIRBY...

Monday, 28 August 2017

HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY JACK KIRBY...

Had JACK 'King' KIRBY still been with us, he'd have been celebrating his 100th Birthday today. Well, in a big sense, he is still with us, and probably will be for at least another 100 years. Happy Birthday, Jack.

5 comments:

Dave S said...: Happy Birthday Jack. Thanks for all the great work you gave us.; 28 August 2017 at 11:57
Simon B said...: Well said. Happy Birthday to the King!; 28 August 2017 at 12:00
Kid said...: Imagine having to blow out 100 candles on a cake - bet he could've done it though.; 28 August 2017 at 12:07
Phil S said...: He was a comic legend and by all accounts quite a guy. I only met him twice at conventions and I really didn't have much of a conversation either time. I didn't know what to say. What can you ask the co creator of the Marvel universe and DC fourth world in fifteen seconds? I just have to say he was my favorite artist growing up and I would be a comic book fan if it wasn't for him. I liked Curt Swan and D.C. But Marvel's stuff was on another level.; 30 August 2017 at 05:32
Kid said...: Agreed, a whole other level, PS. 15 seconds, eh? That's probably how long it took him to dream up about a dozen ideas.; 30 August 2017 at 06:55

About the artist:

From 1985 to 2000 A.D. (little joke there), I contributed to a variety of high profile comics and magazines for various companies.

For IPC/FLEETWAY/EGMONT, I freelanced as a lettering and logo artist on various weekly comics and monthly magazines, and also as a resize comic artist and spot illustrator on pocket books, summer specials and annuals.

For MARVEL U.K., BLACK LIBRARY, REDAN and USBORNE BOOKS, I again freelanced as a lettering artist, also working as a restoration artist for MARVEL U.S., restoring and re-creating certain pages of JACK KIRBY art for their MARVEL MASTERWORKS editions.

I also lettered the MARVELMAN sample pages submitted to MARVEL U.S. when they were considering acquiring the character, which - as we all now know - they DID.

Supplied comic strips, cartoons and illustrated advertisements for local business campaigns and newspaper publication on a professional basis since the age of 16. Did my first paid art job for publication at 14 or 15 for Lanarkshire Education Board.

Have also made TV appearances as a collector of memorabilia.

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Just some of the titles I worked on are:

2000 A.D. * JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE * DICEMAN * SONIC The COMIC * JUDGE DREDD, LAWMAN Of The FUTURE * CRISIS * REVOLVER * EAGLE * TIGER * BATTLE ACTION-FORCE * BUSTER * WHIZZER & CHIPS * WHOOPEE * NIPPER * SCHOOL FUN * ACE VENTURA, PET DETECTIVE * The REAL GHOSTBUSTERS * DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE * COUNT DUCKULA * RUGRATS * The TRANSFORMERS * DEATH'S HEAD * THUNDERCATS * GALAXY RANGERS * DRAGON'S CLAWS * SINDY * MARVEL MASTERWORKS * The TROLLS * LOADED * INFERNO * WARHAMMER * ROSE BLACK.

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