1. Since everyone is gathered together at SDCC, a twitter-essay on what we owe Jack Kirby.
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2. Globally, the two biggest shapers of the imagination of late 20th and early 21st childhood are Walt Disney and Jack Kirby
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3. For better or worse, Disney and Kirby divide up the gender of childhood: the Disney princess, the Kirby superhero.
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4. Kirby constantly took pre-existing genre material and gave it an ideological edge or affective power previously lacking.
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5. Example: Superman already had Popular Front subtext but Kirby co-created explicitly ideological anti-Nazi superhero with Captain America
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6. The pre-existing superhero was all about sensation, wish-fulfillment, wonder: Kirby added the essential ingredient of affect.
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7. Affect meaning not just emotion but we can call bodily knowledge, the scars of particular experience, made evident by Kirby's drawings.
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8. The superhero revival of the 1970s is almost entirely product of Kirby bringing to genre the brunt of life experience previously lacking
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9. What happened to Kirby between Captain American (1941) and the 1960s (Fantastic Four, Hulk, Thor, Black Panther, etc.)?
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10. What happened was: World War II (combat in Europe, seeing a concentration camp), marriage, family life, harsh freelance live.
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11. Kirby's 1960s work were result of him processing the growing up he did as soldier, veteran, husband, artist and father.
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12. In late 1940s and 1950s, Kirby became dominant figure in Romance Comics genre, material he later integrated into superheroes.
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