JACK KIRBY documentary Part 1 of 5
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2012
- Jack Kirby (August 28, 1917 -- February 6, 1994),[2] born Jacob Kurtzberg, was an American comic book artist, writer and editor regarded by historians and fans as one of the major innovators and most influential creators in the comic book medium.
Growing up poor in New York City, Kurtzberg entered the nascent comics industry in the 1930s. He drew various comics features under different pen names, including Jack Curtiss, ultimately settling on Jack Kirby. In 1940, he and writer-editor Joe Simon created the highly successful superhero character Captain America for Timely Comics, predecessor of Marvel Comics. During the 1940s, Kirby, generally teamed with Simon, created numerous characters for that company and for the company that would become DC Comics.
After serving in World War II, Kirby returned to comics and worked in a variety of genres. He contributed to a number of publishers, including DC, Harvey Comics, Hillman Periodicals and Crestwood Publications, where he and Simon created the genre of romance comics. He and Simon also launched their own short-lived comic company, Mainline Publications. Kirby ultimately found himself at Timely's 1950s iteration, Atlas Comics, later to be known as Marvel Comics. There, in the 1960s, he and writer-editor Stan Lee co-created many of Marvel's major characters, including the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, and the Hulk. Despite the high sales and critical acclaim of the Lee-Kirby titles, however, Kirby felt treated unfairly, and left the company in 1970 for rival DC.
There Kirby created his Fourth World saga, which spanned several comics titles. While these series proved commercially unsuccessful and were canceled, several of their characters and the Fourth World mythos have continued as a significant part of the DC Universe. Kirby returned to Marvel briefly in the mid-to-late 1970s, then ventured into television animation and independent comics. In his later years, Kirby, who has been called "the William Blake of comics",[3] began receiving great recognition in the mainstream press for his career accomplishments, and in 1987, he, along with Carl Barks and Will Eisner, was one of the three inaugural inductees of the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame. The Jack Kirby Awards and Jack Kirby Hall of Fame were named in his honor. - Фільми й анімація
"You can draw like Jack but you can't think like Jack" so true
true
This man was a genius. His level of work hasn't been touched.
And never will be.
@@Dan-ky5es He was a good character creator but his art doesn't stand up to modern comic standards and he wasn't even the best of his contemporaries.
@@astrotrain21 Which of his contemporaries do you consider to be superior? What metrics are you judging by?
@@astrotrain21 I’d be interested in reading your reply to Doombot’s question.
All 'True Believers' recognize Jack as the King, 'nuff said'!
+VLC Vic of course
To people who are wondering who Jack Kirby was, all that stuff you think Stan Lee did because he takes credit for it, that's Jack Kirby.
That's not completely true. They made them together.
LOL :D
Pretty much!
@@gemeikalumbang161 Not Captain America
Stan had a better press agent. Look at Challengers of the Unknown. THEN look at the Fantastic Four. Kirby did FF BEFORE Lee "created" FF.
Actually they will know Kirby after the eternal movie
The King. The absolute King.
Milton Caniff and Jack Kirby invented the art of comics. Before them, the art of comics was immature. After them, the art of comics is just evolution, not revolution. Jack Kirby is not only a designer, he is also a writer and a poet of images. The architecture of Jack, the technology and the spaceships of Jack, are pure poetry, his drawings are poems, his lines are rhymes. His comics are dreams. Jack Kirby is the master of all masters. With him, the art of comics meets literature, poetry, cinema, architecture, sculpture, theater.
berto1999 well said my friend
Mister Miracle is my favorite jack kirby creation
He was a genius. His art looks like is jumping out of the page!
J 👑Kirby Most definitely made me choose a comic book over anything else as a kid!! His art made my eyes get wide and want to ✍️
It seems I'm one of the few who always loved Jack Kirby's art. For some reason it seemed different and interesting to me and that always caught my imagination. I know others think he's overrated but I think maybe even a little underrated. I've always loved interesting different things and Kirby's art is definitely that.
Happy 100 birthday to Jack 'The King' Kirby 1917-2017. :-)
Jack Kirby was King. Long live the King,
I love how Kirby drew Dr.Doom
My favourite comic character ever. Love his drawings of him too.
I love Walt Simonson's comment about being smarter than "all those other guys" because he liked Jack's work from the "get go". Too funny …
well jack kirby is the one above all.
I have been trying to find a DVD of this for so long, now i just come here!! Thanks so much for posting this amazing documentary!!
I grew up reading the Silver Age comics , and a fan of Jack Kirbys art. Early Marvel Kirbys art was so -so , but by 1967 when Steranko came aboard , in my opinion both seemed to rival each other an both Artists work got a lot better . The detail Kirby drew when showing a space craft , the fight scenes you could feel. Todays art at Marvel is very cartoonish , perhaps because of Disney . Kirbys art Thor , FF4, Captain America was so 3D and real looking . Hail to the King .
This is incredible, I loved Jack Kirby´s drawings from the first time I saw them when I was nine years old.
Kirby was the King . If you notice His artwork change when Steranko came along . Look at the Fantastic Four during the early 60's an by 1967 His artwork got very detailed . He worked on so many comics , FF4 , Capt. .America , Thor , during the Silver Age of comics.
Awesome documentary! Thanks for uploading this! While I like some other artists more than Kirby, Kirby definitely had the most impact on the comic book art form and industry as a whole. The man was visionary.
Jack King Kirby Long Live the King!!!
When comics were fun & great!! No one compares!!
I am writing a speech on Jack Kirby, this has been of much help! thank you so much!
Jack Kirby is one of my all time favorite comic artists !
Probably my number 1 favourite. Given he created my all-time number favourite comic character, Doctor Doom. :-)
of you like Jack kirby you should look that Darwyn Cookie art
I felt really really bad that there are artists who havent been given a credit for their work. People tend to gave credit to the writers instead. What would it be a great and enjoyable comic book without its artist. People should be fair in giving credit. And Im honoring those are still not well known or popular artists like Steve Ditko, John Buscema and of course Jack "King" Kirby. There would be no comics without them. God bless their souls -Salute-
It's funny going back and watching this now and seeing such young versions of people like Mark Evanier and Walt Simonson. I wish we had comparably early film of folks like Kirby and Eisner.
dude, just wanted to say "thank you!" for all the classic comics you post and this great comic related stuff like this documentary about the King =)
I was a big fan of Stan Lee not any more.
I am a big fan of the real creators of my marvel super heroes. Kirby Ditko Romita bucsema
Well, the trouble is not
that Stan Lee was getting credit for creating everything but rather that Kirby
and the others were getting no credit. Stan Lee was a big part of the creation
of the marvel universe and without him, there would not have been a Marvel
Universe. But that can also be said for Jack Kirby, and this is where we have
the problem. The Marvel method put most of the plotting in the hands of the
artist, but Lee added all the dialogue. Kirby was a great plotter and could do
great visual writing but he sucked at the written word. If you read some of
this forth world stuff he did for DC in the late 1960s and early 1970s you will
see what I mean. I love Kirby’s forth world stuff, don’t get me wrong, I just
wish someone else would have handled the writing, writing part. Stan Lee kept
everything going the way it needed to go to create the Marvel Universe we know
today. Without Steve Ditko we would not have Spider-Man or Dr Strange, but once
again, we would not have Spider-Man without Stan Lee either. Lee’s dialogue and
keeping spider-Man on the right path had just as much to do with Spider-Man’s
success as did the contributions of Ditko. Ditko and Lee did not see eye to eye
on when it came to the writing, and many times Lee changed the intent of the
story that Ditko had in mind, and it pissed Ditko off to no end. Ditko was very
conservative and really influenced by the philosophies of Ayn Rand, and he put
a lot of that in the mouth of Peter Parker. If you read Ditko’s work on the
Question from the late 1960’s you will see what I am talking about. The
Spider-man stories that got published are the ones that we read, and fell in
love with back in the day. All of those stories were created by Kirby and Lee
or Ditka and Lee and if you take one or the other out of the mix, we don’t have
the same stories, nor do we have the same Marvel Universe. We need to make sure
that everyone gets the credit they deserve. John Romita was a great artist but
he did not really create anything. When he left DC and the romance comics he
came to Marvel as an Inker then took over Daredevil when Wally Wood left then
moved to Spider-Man replacing Ditka. I am a huge fan of John Buscema but he did
not create much. He did updated versions of the Black Knight and Vision but was
a great Avengers penciler.
Jack was incredible. I loved the man and his work.
I've always been a fan of Jack Kirby's artwork ever since I first saw it!
thank you for uploading this jack kirby is the man!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Such dedication. Amazing. Long live the legend.
A question this raises (without actually asking it) is how many people might have gone different ways had their experiences with Jack been different. Mark Evanier, Lein Wein and Marv Wolfman (to name a few) all made significant contributions to comics. Jack made them welcome while magic was projected. A surly pro might have left a different taste in their mouths.
That industry owes him more than it could ever possibly give. Thank you very much for posting this.
Miss Jack forever!-
Long live the KING
Thanks for this. Makes me appreciate the talent of this Fantastic Artist even more ... ! Make Mine Kirby
His work scared me as a kid. I'd have nightmares yet I'd still look at it but hated it. Now it blows my mind.
Kirby in one of my heroes. I love Comic books and without him there would be none.
Here's an interesting thought. If Stan Lee is such a comic book "genius" writer, with great Super Hero ideas, which he takes credit for the more popular Marvel Heroes, after Steve Ditko and Jack Kirby left Marvel Comics, can anyone name any other successful characters that Lee came up with? Even today? Who was the true genius to make Marvel Comics so successful in the 60's?
Jack and Ditko are legends, Jack is the King of Comics! I can say Stan Lee did co-create She-Hulk in the early 1980s, with another deceased legend of course, John Buscema.
Stan was a writer then. Then he became responsable for running the operation and couldn't write anymore. He still writes to this day and still has ideas.
True
@@afonsolucas2219 that was a lie, he couldn't write because his idea men left him
It’s crazy seeing how much respect he got from guys like Neal Adams & John Romita , who were his peers & in a way, his competition .
I didn't know at the time about Jack Kirby, but I've always been a huge Marvel fan, and I even loved Machine Man and Devil Dinosaur. It wasn't until later I found that Jack Kirby had done those!
a belated happy 100th birthday to an amazing artist and man.
He was a natural talent .
Happy Late Birthday Jack Kirby, Thank you for sharing your gift to the world.
Long Live The KING!
Happy birthday, Jack. And thank you for everything.
Jack Kirby is an American Original. One of the Godfathers of American Comics. A Genius without Peer.
Jack Kirby - It Is Good to Be The King
Jack was a brilliant artist and creator - the fact that Marvel never gave him his full due is scandalous.
Welcome. I had gotten Mark Evanier book, "Kirby: King of Comics" for fathers day a few years back which tells the same story, so when I came across this documentary I just had to share it with my comic book friends.
awesome
Jack Kirby was and still is a Titan artist!!
jack king kirby ...just the king.
he passed away 23 years ago today. Learned of ot a few days later from a small obit in the local paper.Shocked me greatly. If he had anther 2 or 3 weeks, he could have finished his last book.Put the obit clipping in it,last phantom force he did.
Artmazing! :---)
to watch barry windsor smith freak out over kirby art is amazing
Jack kirby is a beast!!!
WOW ! 2017 will be the 100th birthday of Jack " The King " Kirby ! Happy early Birthday Jack !
And, amazingly, Stan is still around...damn near 94 years old now.
I have no doubt in my mind that the film Juggernaut Marvel stands on the shoulders of this one man. I wonder would anyone have ever heard of Stan Lee were it not for the King?
thanks......more to come.
Sad that he's not alive today to see how his creations have been realized and embraced by new generations and cultures. I think whenever Stan Lee makes a cameo in a new Marvel film, Jack's rolling over in his grave.
Jack kerby, Stan lee, bob Kane, john romita Sr.
Comic book legends.
And steave dittco,, Neal adams
the comic book realm
I much appreciate your detailed comment and it has to a large extent put my mind at ease and gives Lee some credit . I guess credit where credit is due is what is lacking.
but that is life I guess
any invention is never one man's idea many play a part
Alexander graham Bell is credited with the telephone.
the wright brothers credited with flying but many played a role but most rarely mentioned.
I love Kirby's work. I wish he could get the credit he deserves. His family got a great settlement with Disney, and he will be credited in all the movies. It is to bad that none of the creators were credited anywhere in the X-Men: Apocalypse Movie.
👏👏 BRAV-OOOOO 👏👏
The King.
To really appreciate how influential Kirby was just imagine any other artist who has had a computer game made as a homage...I am taliking about the superhero/strategy Freedom Force and sequel Freedom Force vs The Third Reich - silver age and golden age goodness
Freedom Force secret origins (Bullet, El Diablo,Alchemiss)
is there a full version and in HD anywhere online?
+lovesexydarlene - I have not seen one myself. I'm sure there must be one somewhere.
I read a comic when I was real little, and can't remember much about it other than the art looked like Jack Kirby's. It was something about people drinking something and becoming monsters and I read it in the early '70s. Anyone know what that was?
anyone know if there is a higher quality version of this film that can be seen or purchased?
It's on the two-disc, Fantastic Four: Extended Edition from 2005.
where can I get this on dvd ?
Jack was from the project. "TRAPMICS"
Is this film available on DVD?
I would think so, we would need to look for it through Amazon.
Long live the king ! That said without lee the magic would not have happened .
I agree absolutely. That goes both ways. With the big settlement with Disney, the Kirby family will be set for a long, long time. The Kirby credit will be put on all movies, and he will receive credit for all his creative contributions from both DC and Marvel. The fame thing will never change though. Millions of people who don't give a rats ass about comic books know who Stan lee is, That will never happen for Kirby. He was not an upfront in your face kind of guy. He was almost a New York city stereotype, he sounded like he had food in his mouth whenever he talked. He had an incredible creative mind. He was the greatest story teller in comic history. In my opinion.
What is the title of this documentary, and where can I find it?
+Tender Craftsmen - It is Called "Jack Kirby: Storyteller". I don't know where you can find it.
+The Comic Book Realm But you're the one who posted it, so where did you find it?
i have been trying my whole life to be a cartoonist but i cant even master the human form when i see these guys i get so depressed
Just keep practice
keep at it man. believe me you'll get it
+Michael JohnsonClyburn this post was 2 years ago... I'm still not in the trade can't even get my foot in the door
Jim Lee-"Writer"/"Artist". Lol, that was good for a laugh, anyway.
he's still good but not Kirby Level
THEDIEHARD COMICBOOKGAMER wew lad
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THEDIEHARD COMICBOOKGAMER He is obviously neither a writer or an artist.
I don't mean to start an argument but why do u hate his art I think he's one of the better artists and sadly DC doesn't use him a lot and I know he doesn't hold a candle to Kirby
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Alot of people put Fiona staples on his level not even close
i love stan lee but its sad jack gets shadow by lee and its not his fault
Huh,,,,, Jack Kirby,,waaaaaay before hip hop,,was doing graffiti on the walls nearly getting his whole FAMILY thrown out on the streets!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mike royer was s MASSIVE INFLUENCE ON HIP HOP ART,,, DEFINITELY !!!!!!!!!!!! YOU CAN SEE IT !!!!!!!!!
Why mrJack Kirby name justice league and avengers assemble crossover superheroes dc extended universe returns warner bros and marvel cinematic universe returns disney 😔😢😭
If you think Kirby looks blocky, take a look at early Mike Sekowsky. Some of the early Justice League is really horrible.
I watch this to erase from my mind the stain of Rob Leifeld
Don't be cruel, at least he gave us Deadpool ;)
Rob is better Artist than stan lee ;) lol
new gods and darkseid the best!!!!
Thank god he left Marvel & Joined DC and gave us New Gods.
Yup!
@@ahmadhussain682 Thank Stan Lee for treating him so bad and stole all the fame and credit of their creations.
That is why he left Marvel ;)
jack kirby = leonardo da vinci + salvador dali
I hope not what marvel did to Jack sucks
0429 how about you try to go back in time and not draw for leifeld :P
Tell Gene-ette "Wej" Kahn that her declaring Kirby as "nihil" (while abolutely _true_ in how she derived it) was absolute idiocy, and other than for her hatred-oozing propaganda and Lee-besmirching, it _never_ did anything.
Hence, nothing to go "Poof!" or _fizzle_ here …
The only thing I want to mention specifically about all her various workings around that is the "vox nihili" - which is used to discredit me, based on me once writing something about the "Kirby legal situation" online somewhere, and commented the _legal_ situation - not the "poor artist".
To this day I _got_ (!) discredited as "giving my voice to nothing", and thus in the sense of the meaning of "vox nihili" allegedly declared _my own_ opinion and words useless and ambiguous.
I did *not* speak out for _Kirby_ - inspite of quoting that famous line "What about Jack?", and I did *not* "give _nothing_ my voice" - I found the dragged-into-the-public legal whining unbearable, that's all.
In fact, my use of the word _Poof!_ inbetween quotationmarks sometimes, like in the comment above, was tried to be declared as "well then it's his _voice_ saying Poof! - and _that_ he gives to nothing".
No. I never did.
This is nothing about "chronology" - this is about you being cheating filth, spreading lies about what I allegedly meant - I refer to the comment about the legal situation back when. You tried to "decree" that my comments were meant differently than they were; and especially since yesterday you can no longer maintain that. Because yesterday I explained about *context* - actually, just looking at the clock, it's not even full 24 hours ago.
I just sent out a mail "all about Kahn" (on her having been "The Witch") with a time-stamp (no, not _Terence_ …) of: 15. Dezember 2019 18:02:12 MEZ
She really out to be given that to read real quick and soon, because _she herself_ would be continuedly mislead if that mail is kept from her.
"I told y'all!"
I _did_ type "ought" correctly. They are messing with that to discredit me, and/or make me "edit" my comment, and then they claim that comment's time-stamp "originally" was from the time the _editing_ of it happened.
And - pointing it out to everyone here - a pseudo-scientifically genetically "inverted" jew makes no "wej", and a similarily or identically "inverted" sect-founder's genes make no "hej" or "rtc" or whatever you might delude …
I am getting ever so slightly annoyed over your mutual (with those who have access to my mails) "let's-not-inform-one-another". Yes, I _do_ understand that "nihili" *doesn't* actually "exist" - as _nihil_ is only allowed in *nominative* case and *accusative* case, _not_ in *genitive* or *wrongly-used-instead-of-genitive-dative* case. ("Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod", as the Poof!-gone routines about that had it …).
So the "nothingness" - of an "existing _within nothing_ grammatical case" - *was* "spotted"/"disarmed"/etc. as attempted measure to "defend" these workings of yours - if you like it better: these, your workings.
You cling to *lies* of this _not_ having been the case … I just sent out another mail, wherein I _strongly and clearly advise_ to *not* cling to such lies …
Mr Jacob Kurtzberg aka Jack Kirby is the Homer of comics the greatest artist of his generation and deserves all the praise there is stan lee is a scumbag thief plagiarist who cant lie about who did what any more so justice at last
what about stan lee?
He got all the credit for Kirby's work.
Stan is the Man
Kirby is the King
They both excelled with each other more than they ever did apart.
Dan24 Stan Lee is a thief
badfoody #Pfffft
F*** Stan Lee. When I think of what Kirby has done in comics and how he never got a fraction of what Lee received, it makes me angry and ill!
Ya, Lee is really important to the creation of the Marvel universe, without him, I don't think it happens. But with that said, Lees did make sure that he got most of the credit of all the creations of the 1960's. I was looking at some books that his brother Larry Leiber had scripted. The credit page was ...PLOT: Stan Lee, Script: Larry Lieber, Art: Don Heck, Lettering: Art Simek. In what world should the credit for Plot be in the first position?Well, in the Stan Lee world. Of Course this was common back in the day. Bob Kane got all the credit for Batman and was even allow to put his name to other peoples work. Jack Burnley did the famous 1940 edition of Worlds Fair Comics that has Superman, Batman and Robin of the cover for the first time for which he never got a credit. Burnley would do whole Batman stories and never see Bob Kane other than when he came in to put his logo name on the story. Brunley got no mention for his work. Bob Finger, co- creator and one of the great creators and writers of the golden age got no credit until after he was dead. If not for Finger, Batman's sidekick would have been "Kid Mercury". Thats just the way it was back in the day. When we think of the "Spirit", we give all credit to Will Eisner, But as many as half of the stories were written and drawn by other, uncredited people . Top names: Lou fine, Jack Cole,Wally Wood,Jules Feiffer, Manly Wade Wellman, William Woolfolk, and many others, with all credit going to Will Eisner. That's the way it was.
Why you mad for? Stan Lee was great
95blckfirebird1 Stan Lee is the guy in a great group report who ONLY does the talking and let's the praise get to his head
badfoody, Yeah, I always thought it seemed like Stan Lee loves talking about himself.
Shut ur dumb ass the fuck up! U can't do anything close to his level
Definitely not a fan. One of my least favorite marvel artists. His faces were horrible and his inkers did him little favors. Funny how the guy in here said he would buy comics if Kirby drew them, I was totally the opposite and would buy anything NOT drawn by Kirby. JR, JB and SB were better and no I didn't have to scratch really hard I just opened up another comic and there they were. Some people just have bad perception of what art is.
Personally, I'd take Romita Sr and Ditko over Kirby any day.
I Thought Romita Sr was ok but I never liked Ditko. Everyone had that same smiling face. The action never felt like it was moving. Ditko's action always felt like action figures we posed as kids. He would draw a little mark at the point of contact. that just never did it for me.
The Comic Book Realm I liked John Romita SR and grew up with his Spider-Man art work, but for me Kirby & Ditko & Steranko were the three essentials of Marvel in the sixties who shattered the boundaries of what had been a pretty static genre in the 1960's (superheroes) and changed the comic book as we knew it forever.
Oh and mr purple prose Stan Lee had his part in all this of course. ;-)
Love Ditko and Kirby equally, but they're so incredibly different in their styles that I don't think there's any way to objectively compare them with each other. Both the best of the best. However, Kirby's art had unequalled power, and power is what the superhero genre is all about, so he deserves to be called the King.
i always prefered steve ditko over jack kirb, though I think I may have a bias for ditko since he has created blue beetle(ted kord), the question, and captain atom my three favorite superheroes. though I still apreciate jack kirby ' contribution to the comicbook industry
+Mr Maws
The work of Romita Sr is a little bit flat.
The doc's start off with a bunch of geeks worshipping a guy who drew and wrote comics. Great works, but really, the messiah of comics...... Get a grip
when you consider what he accomplished not only in the superhero genre but romantic comics, western, monster etc he definitely deserves the title King
yuk his stuff is so boring
Vishal Namani it's not really made four kind. It's made for normal people. 😊
I am writing a speech on Jack Kirby, this has been of much help! thank you so much!