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Kirby King of Comics

Over on his blog writer and comics historian Mark Evanier has posted details about the first of two upcoming books about JACK KIRBY.

He describes "Kirby: King Of Comics" as follows:
224 pages in a 9" by 12" hardcover format, published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. which is arguably the leading publisher of art-type books in the United States and maybe anywhere. The book is filled with illustrations from Jack’s life, ranging from things he did as a kid (signed with his real name, Kurtzberg) to work as an adult. Many of the items have been seen before, though never with this quality of printing. Many have never been published. I have, for instance, a couple of unused Marvel covers from the sixties, one still in pencil, and a number of pencil commissions he did for people late in life. We’re printing Jack’s autobiographical story, "Street Code," right off the original negatives. We’re printing a Fighting American story right off the original art. We have some of Jack’s famous collages and a couple of pages where he took the art to some comic he’d done and hand-colored the original art. There are some amazing pieces
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Evanier also posted an update on his long in development Kirby biography: " (there is )no firm publication date or plans at present, is an exhaustive, long, trivia-laden, full-of-hitherto-undisclosed info biography. I’m still working intermittently on that one. Don’t ask me when it’ll be done. I don’t know."

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