Jack Kirby - 94th birthday tribute

It seems almost impossible to believe that one lone mortal man could draw the things that Jack Kirby drew. So I've drawn him in a powered Exo-Skeleton, so as to contain the vast cosmic energies.
I didn't ink this because Jack didn't ink. Though it would be kind a cool to get it inked.

Jack Kirby

We're tying into the Jack Kirby Museum 94th anniversary of Kirby’s
birth today.
Details:
http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/kirby-vision/2011/08/01/this-blog-wants-you/

Here’s my sketch of the King:

Kamandi - The Last Boy on Earth

Jack Kirby may have been ripping off 'The Planet of the Apes' rather gratuitously, but that utterly bonkers Kirby vision shines through. 'Apes' is a great movie, but Kamandi is MUCH more fun!

Barda Reads Comics

Meant to post this last night, but there was some problem with image uploading on Blogger. Anyway, here she is...

Jack Kirby's New Gods-- Parademons! UPDATED! IN COLOUR!

Surprisingly hard to find some good Kirby reference of Darkseid's footsoldiers, the Parademons, so I kind of cobbled mine together from some toys, the Superman animated series, and my own jumbled memories. Coulda used more Kirby crackle but, Hell, I ain't got all day.

UPDATED!!

Check the comments section on this post-- Simon Fraser  suggested that this piece would look better in 'colour' (he's Scottish) and I invited him, or anyone really to color it in, because as noted above, I ain't got all day. So Simon colored, it took him 20 minutes, and I'm eating crow. It does look much better, and he even added more substantial Kirby Crackle. In my defense, I wouldn't have colored it so nicely :)

James Smith - Granny and the Black Racer - New Gods

Kirby's New Gods: Kalibak!

Sweet Boots FTW

Anyone notice how awesome Darkseid's boots are? Also I just thought I spelled his name wrong, but I guess I before E except after DARK.



I guess he's kinda pretty, and looks more like Death from the 7th Seal, but whatever! I bet he's got some long, luxurious black hair under that helmet.

New Gods - GRANNY GOODNESS

Anyone who thinks that Darkseid is the scariest thing on Apokalips is clearly and tragically wrong!

Jack Kirby's New Gods bonus post

There's not much that all of us Drawbridge cartoonists at Hypothetical Island and Deep 6 share in common... we're all carbon-based forms of life (hopefully), we are all or more or less bipedal, and we all love Jack Kirby.

A couple moons ago Michel Fiffe and I were hanging around the studios one weekend talking about inkers whom we've loved (and not loved) when it occurred to ourselves that, being modern hardcore do-it-all-yourself cartoonists, we have seldom, if ever, had our work inked by others. A pact was made, we each penciled a pin-up, exchanged it with one another, and inked that mutha. Her's my pencils:

I chose as my subject that most Kirbian of Jack Kirby characters, Big Barda, along with her husband super-escape artist Mr. Miracle. I was actually introduced initially to this duo in the pages of Giffen and DeMatteis's JLI, a book I LOVE SO MUCH THAT IT HURTS! I mention this because you'll notice I gave Mr. M a nose, which as near as I can tell was a JLI innovation. Now it was Fiffe's turn:

In addition to proving himself the undisputed modern master of Kirby crackle, Fiffe also shamed me with an awesome Boom Tube effect, and rectified my Kirby-inaccurate Mr. Miracle nose. The most important piece of the drawing, Big Barda's hips, he left unaltered.

Not one to rest on his laurels, he has since gone on to add color ON THE ORIGINAL PAPER because he is a man without fear. So far, this is all I've seen of it:

But I'm sure you will agree it's awesome sauce. Keep checking Michel's blog to see when he posts the finished color as well as all the other cool stuff he has cooking there.

Check back here later today as I'll probably have something New Gods and warm-uppy posted.

New Gods

The first issue of the "New Gods" I ever saw was at a rummage sale, and it
featured "Mantis." I've had a soft spot for him ever since.
Why? I don't know.
I redesigned him slightly.

He needed a bigger, more conical-like helmet.