Mark Evanier points out on his blog that today would’ve been Jack Kirby’s 89th birthday:
“People referred to him as a great artist, and he was…but I always thought that compliment kind of missed the point. It wasn’t just that he drew so well but that he thought of wonderful things to draw that no one else would ever have imagined. Another pretty good artist, Al Williamson, once said, ‘If you told me or most of my buddies to draw fifty spaceships, they’d all look like they were built in the same plant. If Jack drew fifty spaceships, they’d look like they were built by fifty different alien races’.”
April 6th, 2007 at 7:33 am
This is eight months too late but Happy Jack Kirby Day to you too!