2. Who was Jack Kirby? One way to think of Kirby is that his life distilled the arc of the American century.pic.twitter.com/lksn8ZcKv3
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2. Who was Jack Kirby? One way to think of Kirby is that his life distilled the arc of the American century.pic.twitter.com/lksn8ZcKv3
3. Kirby was born in the slums of New York, the son of Jewish immigrants from Austria. A depression child he was working out of high school
Jack Kirby & Will Eisner, both Jewish, both from the Lower East Side, both huge influence on the comic medium
I've never forgotten/forgiven Marvel/Lee for stiffing Kirby's estate. Lee's name was mud in the 1980's. http://deadline.com/2014/09/jack-kirby-marvel-settlement-lawsuit-supreme-court-hearing-841711/ …pic.twitter.com/iIVSUONemK
Michael Chabon's "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay"
(I was about to mention the same book!)
Thank you for this wonderful thread. A lot of ppl today don't know Kirby was Jewish. From the era when Jews changed their names. @HeerJeet
I need a single word for "Pathetic, Old Hipster-Nerd Pandering"
And a dog was named after him!
Possibly multiple dogs.
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