Jack Kirby is the most influential and prolific of all comic artists.
Read More... The co-creator of The Fantastic Four, The Hulk, X-Men, Captain America and literally, hundreds of other characters, he is one of the true innovators of the comic book medium.
Beginning in the 1940’s with his collaborations on Captain America with Joe Simon, straight through the fifties and sixties, when he teamed successfully with Stan Lee to create the Marvel Universe and into the 1970’s when he brought his Fourth World mythologies to DC Comics, his art and stories have proved unstoppable.
Among the many iconic characters that are a part of Kirby’s legacy: Silver Surfer, Thor, Galactus, Dr. Doom, Nick Fury and Iron Man.
Although Kirby and the superheroes he drew are his most indelible creations, there was hardly a genre of comic art that he did not excel at, including romance comics, science fiction, horror and westerns.
The New York Times said that Kirby created “a new grammar of storytelling” and Neil Gaiman perhaps, said it best: “Jack Kirby made comics move.”
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