That's actually completely intentional. In Kirby's biography by Mark Evanier - Kirby: King of Comics - Jack's quoted about The Thing: "If you'll notice the way The Thing talks and acts, you'll find that The Thing is really Jack Kirby. He has my manners, he has my manner of speech, and he thinks the way I do. He's excitable, and you'll find that he's very, very active among people, and he can muscle his way through a crowd. I find I'm that sort of person."
I imagined a very similar accent. If I were to ever draw Ben Grimm in human form I'd draw a bulky Jack Kirby, like the pics you see when he was fighting in the war.
Great New York voice; someone who was an auto didact and conspicuously brave and able when called on. He told great stories, possibly because he was one himself.
It's crazy how there was a time when comic books were still seen as a nerdy hoppy it's a shame Jack never lived to see his creations brought to life on the big screen hail to the king baby
You may not believe me, but when I was a boy in Southern California my sister was friends with Mr. Kirby's grand-daughter. I was at his house numerous times, swimming in his pool and spending the day there. I wish I still had the comics and posters he gave me. I can tell you, honestly, he was a sweet, kind, wonderful man. Visits to Mr. Kirby's, or as my mother called him "Mr. Creator" are likely the fondest of my childhood.
That's spectacular to have those experiences and memories. In all the media I've seen of him, he seems a genteel and decent as he appears in this interview. I would say he seems closest to the Thing to me in personability and relatablity. Thanks for your leaving your comment, friend! 🖖🙂
I hate to break your heart, but Jack Kirby got millions of dollars before he died from Marvel for his creations. I believe it was in the sum of 11 to 18 million. He did not pass away without money and to me...it should have come faster. But he got his due before he passed. So, dont worry. He got his money and it wasn't enough.
@@cyberpunkholiday Stan Lee got tens of millions each year. Jack Kirby got 11 to 18 million on his deathbed. Steve Ditko died on assisted living, with no compensation for his creations, no royalties. It's not right.
He did contribute to the dialogue and still gave credit to most of his collaborators, he did plenty of work himself which is more than what Bob Kane did.
Alex Acerra Jack did the art and some dialogue and Stan did the scripting at marvel, both of them were prolific in their fields. Jack did plenty of writing on his own too. There are plenty of conflicting reports on who did what, but even if you look at Jack purely from artistic point of view he's still one of the biggest artists in the medium. Stan us pretty prolific to being the creator and scripter of countless superheroes. So can't both be great?
Jack Kirby not only drew those comics but also wrote the stories too. In fact he left dialog suggestions on the margins of the artwork for Stan Lee so he could understand the story and do his job...I mean EDITING ! The "Marvel Method" the way Marvel worked those days confirms what I said. Stan Lee was an editor not a writer of those comics.
Been reading Fourth World for this last months. His run on Jimmy Olsen and Forever People are so great. The love he felt for the medium jumps out of every page.
I still remember watching this segment when it first aired. It was the first time I had ever heard Kirby speak, and it inspired me. I think I had read a Comics Scene interview with him shortly before that, too, so this segment was a big deal to me! I still have a sketch I did that day copying Kirby's drawing of the lady thrown from a helicopter only to be rescued.
Love Jack Kirby not just for his art but he's a really cool guy that I wish I could've had the chance to meet. Also can we acknowledge the video ending on that sick burn?
I think he gave a decent interview. I've read that, when compared to Stan, Jack gave "bad" interviews...but I don't see that here. He seems well spoken and very charming. Long live the king...
Wow! Thanks for posting. I remember seeing this way back when it aired. It was the first time I saw an interview on tv with Kirby... the greatest comic book artist ever!
hipstermi mick Jones and strummer were HUGE Kirby fans !!!!!!!! Mick Jones especially loved comic's and his mum sent him books regularly from the USA !!!!!! Ummmm so they wasn't so bored of the USA !!!!!!! Lol
That man was prolific and his legacy is mind boggling. Love u Stan Lee, rip, but the KING really is the creator of all these characters... it’s always the artist image in his mind that becomes what is cherished...
Not true. Justice League, Superman, and Batman were prosperous titles in the early 60's pre Marvel. I'm not saying superheroes were literally the only genre left. I'm implying that the castration of content reduced the complexity that afforded the other genres to balloon the way they had in the first place. If you look at War comics pre code and post code you see a dramatic difference in the stories and their intended demographic. Post code told more simplistic stories because of limitations.
Stan didn't fuse genres. He was actually leaving comic books when his publisher Martin Goodman petitioned him to copy the Justice League. Since he was going to quit comics, because of the lack of freedom the CCA imposed, he did the book his way in a show of defiance. That copy was the Fantastic Four and the rest is history. The reason Superheroes remained on top was because the code didn't truly evaporate until the early 2000's. People didn't choose superheroes they were the only genre left.
We may never see another creative force with such output ever again. Jack Kirby was truly a one of a kind. Thor, Iron Man, Captain America, The Black Panther, The Eternals, I mean this guy's vision molded the way we think of super heroes today. Jack Kirby didn't have a blue print, he wrote the blue print.
Man I wish I got to meet Jack. Just to pick his mind about anything: life, art, comic history, storytelling. His pages alone are an encyclopedia on how to make comics.
Stan Lee may have been the brains behind the comic book heroes but Jack Kirby was the guy who drew it down to the last ink. Out of all the other comic book drawers, Jack Kirby is the greatest comic book ink artist of all time.
this clip should made a cameo in the eternals cuz he created them. Like imagine if one of the eternals member were watching a tv during the 80s and this came up.
I wonder how new generations and Marvel fanboys would react if you put this interview at the beginning of Avengers Endgame. I would love to see their confused faces 😂 Long live the King !
Gatekeeping isn't a good look, gramps. I love history, and I love shit like this, and it all ties into one big love for Marvel but to you and I it means different things, we have different memories of these things. I wasn't alive when this interview came out, saw the first Raimi Spider-Man in the theater when it came out as a kid, read marvel.com entries, watched videos like these, watched the MCU, and all that was my gateway into reading the comics. Now I have long boxes full of them and love the stories and the art, and the history. So yeah, you and I love Marvel just the same and I guarantee if they did put this before Endgame, a lot of people would research it later and you'd probably see a resurgence in artists and interest in comics among my generation, and a lot of us already read comics and know this stuff.
I've been an artist for many years, never been a big comic book fan, i don't dislike them, but I'm just not into them, but i will say, there are some great comic book artists out there and my area of interest is almost always the originals, the guys who started something, be it the Dada guys, the Surrealists, Impressionists and so on. I've only just found out about this guy and he seemed to have a real presence about him. The figure work is what impresses me the most and comic art always has amazing figures, muscles everywhere and great postures.
Stan Lee mentions him in his Documentary "With Great Power" a must see. Watch it till the very end. It has a Marvel-esque finish. He was sad to loose him. R.I.P. Jack & Stan🙏
This is an excellent artifact of popular culture and I’m so glad you’ve uploaded it. At the same it’s all so exquisitely painful. [chuckle] And square, too-it’s 1982 and ET is surprised by the existence of the Clash?
