Tag: Happy Birthday Jack Kirby

Silver Surfer

Silver Surfer

Happy 107th to the legend that is Jack Kirby. Happy Kirby Day to all. Wanted to draw the creation that I feel is the one he felt was cruelly ripped away from him by Stan Lee. It would have been interesting to see what The Surfer would have been without Lee getting his dirty fingerprints …

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X-Factor

Happy 106th to The King, Jack Kirby. I’ve had a hankerin’ to draw The Original 5 X-Men in their X-Factor days for a bit, and Kirby’s birthday seemed like a good moment. Oddly, I’ve always considered The X-Men to be the least Kirby-esque of his creations. He also had a very short run on the …

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Big Barda

It’s Kirby Day! Happy 105th birthday, Jack Kirby.

Captain Victory

Happy 104th Birthday to the late, great King of Comics, Jack Kirby. Captain Victory was one the rare Kirby creations in which he retained full creative control and ownership. His original 14 issues have yet to be collected. Suggested by my long-lost pal, Jason Young.

1305. Ben Grimm

The Everloving Blue-Eyed Thing, in honor of Jack Kirby’s 101st birthday.

940. New Gods

Orion Lightray Metron Big Barda Mr. Miracle Darkseid *** Today is the day. Happy 100th Birthday, Jack Kirby. Thought I’d mega-load today’s post with characters from Kirby’s magnum-opus, The New Gods/Fourth World saga. I have really enjoyed drawing most of these characters up to this point. I wish I hadn’t rushed through some of them …

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