Thursday, January 24, 2013

Jack Kirby? Are You Sure?

Here's another one of those illos that make you go hhhmmmm...is that really Jack?  As Kandou Erik and I have occasionally discussed, it's still fun to see them

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  1. I agree. It looks like one of the pencil scans the Jack Kirby Collector publishes, and the signature looks right. But doesn't seem quite right in some respects, either...

    John @ Pop Culture Safari

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  2. Looks more like Tom Scioli than Kirby.
    If it's being promoted or sold as a Kirby piece, it's probably by a third party who combined a Scioli sketch with Kirby's signature.
    Scioli has too much resepct for the King to commit fraud.

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  3. I'd really be surprised if it really was Jack Kirby's work. Just seems weird, for weirds sake -- which is sometimes how we see Jack's art; but I don't think it was ever a way he actually drew. (Like it would always make sense to him.)

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  4. It is Kirby. It’s the pencils to the cover of Phantom Force, which he drew for Image just before he died.

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