Comments on: Jack Kirby Museum – Frank Miller One Day?

By: Just Super! | Cosmic Variance

Just Super! | Cosmic Variance — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 22:51:46 +0000

[...] So you might have noticed that I’ve read the odd comic or two. You may also have noticed that I think about physics from time to time. So you’d guess therefore that if I saw this post about a book on physics and comics over at Caolionn’s QuantumDiaries blog, I’d not be able to resist commenting, and then when the author showed up and commented as well, and pointed me to the website, and I saw the book’s table of contents…..how could I not blog about it?! [...]

By: spyder

spyder — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 21:55:51 +0000

And we get someone praising the wonder of Jack Kirby–such a fine blessing Clifford, thank you immensely. With Kirby and Starlin guiding the paths towards excellence in comix, those who have followed, paying careful attention to their genius, continue to offer us fine works of art and excitement. For years i kept threatening to sell my collection, many from Kirby and Starlin as well as others, until my youngest son discovered them. He has embraced them and moved on to Miller and many more(the Top Cow crew in West LA/Santa Monica are great). It felt good to have been able to share the best with him so that he could perceive quality amongst the morass of computer generated images. Thank you for your reminder.

By: Clifford

Clifford — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 18:51:46 +0000

Yeah.. Alan Moore is fantastic. For somethign completely different, I love the painterly approach of Alex Ross. His visuals are sometimes just sublime. And when he is working with good writers, the combination can be unparalleled. Get “Marvels” or “Kingdom Come” sometime, if you’re not familiar with him. A collection of Alex Ross’ work would do well in an exhibition in a big art gallery one day. I hope that happpens.

-cvj

By: Eugene

Eugene — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 18:37:51 +0000

Hi Clifford,

Not to mention the total screwup the movie studios made out of Miller’s Robocop sequel script…

But, as much as I love Frank Miller’s work, Alan Moore rules .

By: Clifford

Clifford — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 14:38:35 +0000

Jepe – Yes, but it is nearly criminal that the movie studios made such a mess of the Daredevil and Electra characters after all his careful work. It will take years to undo that embarrassing mess.

-cvj

By: jepe

jepe — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 13:15:54 +0000

Hats off to Miller for infusing a lot of the energy into the Elektra and Wolverine characters. I think their more recent popularity is heavily due to his work. I couldn’t believe, however, this was the same guy that did “Hardboiled”.

By: DrMax

DrMax — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 08:01:19 +0000

Jack Kirby is God. I respect Miller, but my Kirby love goes down my DNA. Summer afternoons in the 60’s with a Fantastic Four King Size Special (cost a whole quarter) and some Kool-Aid. Those dotted plasma clouds, Reed Richard’s strange machines and the Silver Surfer. No one has done it better.