Monday, August 28th (yesterday) marked Jack “King” Kirby’s 100th birthday.
He isn’t still around to celebrate it, but we certainly have a tremendous body of work with which to celebrate his storytelling.
I had made a comment on social media, but he seems to have cast a large enough shadow across pop culture that people may well be celebrating his centennial all week.
One of his assistants, Mark Evanier, who also wrote the biography Kirby: King of Comics, has a nice remembrance of the man and the impact he had.
Comic-con also has an impressive 60-page PDF of artwork and anecdotes about Kirby.
There’s also pieces you can read in Forbes, the Washington Post, CBR, and Techcrunch among others. Bleeding Cool has its picks for his top five creations.
( I personally have a soft spot for Kamandi).
Finally, Jeet Heer has a great article in the New Republic about Kirby and his impact, which dwarfs his outsize artwork.