{"id":30940,"date":"2019-09-09T05:41:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T02:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=30940"},"modified":"2019-09-09T05:41:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T02:41:07","slug":"the-kirby-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/09\/09\/the-kirby-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kirby Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"

The late Stan Taylor’s book-length Jack Kirby biography, now available free at The Kirby Effect: the journal of the Jack Kirby Museum & Research Center<\/a>. Complete with colour scans and archival pictures. The last chapter posted was 1st June 2019, and it looks like it sees one new chapter posted every four months or so. As such the online book is currently only missing the final few chapters…<\/p>\n

22 \u2013 Allegory Of His Life
\n23 \u2013 Why Did The Fourth World Fail?
\n24 \u2013 Once More Into The Breach
\n25 \u2013 Animated
\n26 \u2013 The Animated Artist<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Picture: Jack Kirby at the board, from Kirby: King of Comics<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This spurs a fascinating historical “What If? idea” What if… Stan Lee had said to Jack Kirby one day at Timely in the mid 1950s: “Jack, forget these capes-and-tights heroes. They’re over. The kids want monsters and mystery. So I found us the secret sauce for our new Yellow Claw<\/em> title, it’ll have new types of monster… and these monsters are gonna get us past this new freakin’ Comics Code and<\/em> let us scoop up all the homeless readers of EC’s horror comics! Take a read of these here Lovecraft stories… yeah yeah I know, ya heard he’s supposed to be about indescribable monsters… but you’re Jack Kirby, you can draw anything<\/em>…”<\/p>\n

Of course it didn’t happen that way. In the end we got the superpowered capes-and-tights heroes vs. the superpowered monsters, and quadruple the fun. But it could have just gone toward creepy mystery monsters — before being swept away by TV and cheap paperbacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The late Stan Taylor’s book-length Jack Kirby biography, now available free at The Kirby Effect: the journal of the Jack …<\/p>\n

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