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JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR #85

Fall 2022 – 84-page FULL-COLOR magazine

Jack Kirby Collector #85 brings to life “Kirby: Animated”, detailing how Kirby and his concepts leaped from celluloid, to paper, and back again! From his 1930s start on Popeye and Betty Boop and his work being used on the 1960s Marvel Super-Heroes show, to Fantastic Four (in both 1967 and 1978), Super Friends/Super Powers, Scooby-Doo, Thundarr the Barbarian, and Ruby-Spears: it’s the ultimate look at Jack’s work in, and influence on, animation! Then comics and animation’s Evan Dorkin talks about his Kirby inspirations and an abandoned Kamandi animated series. Plus our regular columnists, and from 2017’s Baltimore Comic-Con: Mark Evanier celebrates Kirby’s 100th birthday with Tom King, Walter Simonson, Mark Buckingham, Jerry Ordway, Dean Haspiel, John K. Snyder III, and the Kirby Museum’s Rand Hoppe. With a gallery of Jack’s pencil art, and an unpublished Kirby cover inked by Evan Dorkin. Edited by John Morrow.

Here's the TwoMorrows link for orders, I assume it can also be pre-ordered through your local comic shop or resource: https://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=98_57&products_id=1667

One of these days I might post a few things from the Kamandi bible Sarah and I wrote for WB some years back. I still think it's one of the best things we ever did, and I also think it could have made a terrific show. Supposedly, a lot of the feedback WB got from network/streaming channel execs went along the lines of, "too much humor to be an adventure series, too much adventure to be a humor series".  Whatever. 

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Randall Sims

“Too much good for a WB series” apparently

John Fiala

Considering how popular and well-remembered Thundarr the Barbarian was, I'm surprised that never happened. Did they ever do an animated Kamandi in that Batman teamup cartoon? I vaguely remember they had a bunch of weird characters show up.

John Quiring

I am almost positive Kamandi did show up in The Batman: The Brave and the Bold cartoon.

John Fiala

That's what it was called! Thank you. Know what we need? Amethyst, Princess of Gemword crossed over with Kamandi. That would be fun.

Tim Kocher

The idea of you and Sarah doing a kamandi series is too incredible to comprehend! Would dearly love to know more. And nuts to those primitive screwheads at the WB, says I

Russell Grant

The design on that bomb is bananas and perfect. Great job on that cover! So drawing the Thing, lots of fun or a pain in the ass with all the rock bits?

Evan Dorkin

I only inked this, over a scan of pencils by Jack Kirby. I think I posted the pencils scan earlier on the site, I'll check. I did add more rocks to some areas where I felt it looked too "open", but I didn't want to futz with Kirby's drawing too much (unless I had to, as an older-period drawing, some details were missing or vague, which was weird -- "correcting" Kirby like an actual inker was a little scary). I really enjoyed inking it, but whenever I've tried to draw the Thing myself, it looks like crap. The Thing is a little like a Charles Schulz Peanuts character, it looks like a fairly simple approach to emulate, design-wise. But in reality, it's really easy to fuck up drawing Ben Grimm, not to mention Snoopy or Charlie Brown. Something about the personality and style of the original creator is embedded in those rocks. A lot of people draw a decent-looking Thing, but almost no one really captures the vibe and composition of the original character. Trying to get it right is usually a revoltin' development.

Evan Dorkin

Just to be clear WB hired us to do the bible, they pitched the series to various outlets who turned it down, including the Adult Swim.

Kay Bien

Added it to my pull list