By: Chris Lanier
This & Dan’s Wood piece make for some interesting reading. I couldn’t agree more that the “fundamental weirdness” of Kirby’s work is glossed over despite being right there on the surface — it’s...
View ArticleBy: Chris Lanier
Sorry, let me try that link again: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n08/jonathan-lethem/my-marvel-years
View ArticleBy: patrick ford
The assertion by Chris that Kirby’s dialogue shows, “little variation across his characters — they’re all talking “Kirby Speak,” and it flattens them out,” is an opinion that I find incomprehensible....
View ArticleBy: Virtual Memories | What It Is: 2/15/10
[...] What I’m worried about: My mid-life crisis will be nowhere near as bombastic as Jack Kirby’s. [...]
View ArticleBy: EH
I have a dream that one day our characters will be judged, not by the gamma-irradiated color of their skin, but by the content of their word balloons. Er, sorry, was just struck by that turn of phrase....
View ArticleBy: Comics A.M. | The comics Internet in two minutes | Robot 6 @ Comic Book...
[...] the "mid-life crises" of several comics artists that saw them make a leap to more ambitious works. [Comics Comics] Ghost Rider [...]
View ArticleBy: bryanocki C
come on you jokers. Their kids went to college and they suddenly had some time on their hands and missed Play around the house. Why can’t i vote on ben jones today. Thats my mid winter crisis.
View ArticleBy: Comics Links: Quick Hits | A Distant Soil by Colleen Doran
[...] When comic creators hit middle age. Think of Kirby, Ditko, Kane, and Eisner (and maybe also John Stanley). All these cartoonists started off as journeymen artists, had a mid-life crisis which...
View ArticleBy: JRVJ
With all due respect, I don’t think Eisner is a good example of this theory, because Eisner produced very good and varied work after coming back to the comics field. Some of that work is out of print...
View ArticleBy: Michel Fiffe » Review/Confession
[...] 3 part post over at The Comics Journal site/blog (which was a response to Jeet Heer’s essay “The Mid-Life Crises of The Great Commercial Cartoonists” over at Comics Comics). Not only does Groth...
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