![]() ![]() ![]() Buckler’s chosen work is a cover he hired Kirby to do that features Lancelot Strong. Jack liked them and told him, ‘Go see Stan Lee and tell him I said to give you a job.’ Stan did. who tells us how he sent art samples to Kirby just after Jack had left Marvel. The one hundred contributors are numbered. Essentially, this is a coffee table book, not one to sit and read cover to cover so there are several approaches. Another route is to scan it for interesting art, see who picked it and read their comments. I imagine this is what most readers will do before perusing the other pages. The essays are arranged with the art in chronological order so the early pages feature Jack’s 1940s art and the later ones his last work.Īs individual reviews of over one hundred essays would be silly, I’ve picked out those creators with whose work I am familiar and checked what they had to say. ![]() The result is this fine, big, colourful book, ‘Kirby 100’. To celebrate the centennial of Jack Kirby’s birth in 1917, TwoMorrows Publishing asked one hundred stars of comics and animation to praise and critique their favourite piece of Kirby art. ![]()
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