{"id":446,"date":"2010-01-17T17:58:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T17:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2010\/01\/17\/kirby-designs-julius-caesar\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:18:45","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:18:45","slug":"kirby-designs-julius-caesar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2010\/01\/17\/kirby-designs-julius-caesar\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirby designs Julius Caesar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jack Kirby Museum &amp;amp; Research Center <a href=\"http:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/caesar\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">recently posted<\/a> The King&#8217;s designs from a theater production of <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Julius Caesar<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/bb\/weblogs\/upload\/16\/14791637274b534b4a8da69.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<table width=\"90%\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"genmed\"><b>Quote:<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"quote\">In 1969, Sheldon Feldner contacted Marvel Comics, asking if one of Marvel&#8217;s artists would be interested in designing costumes for a production of William Shakespeare&#8217;s play Julius Caesar by the University Theatre Company at Santa Cruz at the newly-built Cowell College of the University of California at Santa Cruz.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/bb\/weblogs\/upload\/16\/19561581504b534c02b187c.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<table width=\"90%\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"genmed\"><b>Quote:<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"quote\">As luck would have it, the Kirby family had recently moved to California, and Stan Lee recommended that Feldner contact Jack Kirby.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\"><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/caesar\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">article<\/a> showcases several examples of Kirby&#8217;s designs plus more history of the Cowell College play, color photos of the actors in Kirby-designed costumes, and even a .pdf of a piece from a Santa Cruz area newspaper Sunday supplement.<\/p>\n<p>All in all a very interesting overview of Kirby history that I was previously unaware.<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to Scott Edelman)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jack Kirby Museum &amp;amp; Research Center recently posted The King&#8217;s designs from a theater production of Julius Caesar. 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