Jack Kirby gets his due
Few people had the privilege of knowing comics legend Jack Kirby the way Mark Evanier did. Therefore, it is only fitting that Mark was the man selected to pen Jack’s definitive biography.
Kirby: King of Comics will be released this October in a 224 page hardcover edition, complete with a pull-out poster designed by Alex Ross, at a price a lot lower than that of any of Kirby’s Masterworks or Archives editions, a mere $40.00 retail. Normally, I’d be writing up the bit about who Jack Kirby was in case you don’t know the way I was taught in journalism school, but I can’t imagine anybody reading something called ComicMix who isn’t familiar with The King of Comics. But in case you want to brush up, Mark did an excellent job on his own website.
Tons of art and inside information and produced with the full cooperation of the Kirby estate, Mark Evanier’s Kirby: King of Comics is going to be an early Christmas for comic fans old and young.
Artwork copyright by their respective holders.
Because I seem to be in a nitpicking mood today, and because I keep track of these things for the Kirby Weblog, there are a few Kirby-featuring Archives and Masterworks that are $40 retail (admittedly thinner than usual, as well). Specifically HULK MASTERWORKS v1 and CHALLENGERS ARCHIVES v1 and v2. And the first FOURTH WORLD OMNIBUS is $50 but is also almost 400 pages. Not that any of that diminishes my anticipation of Evanier’s book (and his long promised subsequent book however many years later).