Longtime visitors to my site will know that I’m a big Jack Kirby fan! August happens to be the month Jack Kirby was born, on the 28th. Realizing this, Howard Simpson came up with a great idea: a month-long celebration of Kirby and his work online, via social media. I believe it’s open to any creatives, and the idea is “the more, the merrier.” If you want to search them all out and see who’s doing what on your favorite platforms, they should be hashtagged #KirbyArtTributes. I haven’t usually done a lot of social media challenges, but I couldn’t pass this up. Strap in; it’s going to be a busy month!
The first prompt is the Golden Age version of the Vision. If most people are aware of the Vision at all, it’s probably Marvel’s Silver Age version of the character. The Golden Age version was published by Timely (the name Marvel was known by during most of the Golden Age), and despite some visual similarities with the Silver Age version, he was a different character. Instead of being an android, this Vision was a supernatural being who could travel into and out of our world via smoke.
I’ve set certain parameters of my own for my contributions this month. They’re all going to be formatted like this, basically portraits in small squares. I’ve also elected to stick to the limited old school color palette that comic books used on their interior pages for many years. There’s a method to my madness that will hopefully pay off at the end of the month, if I can pull off what I’d like to accomplish.
Hope you enjoy! Stay tuned!
Great! The original Vison, if it had not been for fandom and early Marvel reprints I might not have even known that character existed. Your image presentation for the month works for me, Keep it going. And thank you.
Glad you like it, Joe. Yeah, I haven’t really seen much of this version of the Vision. Once you get beyond Captain America, the Sub-Mariner and the Human Torch, my awareness of Timely’s (Marvel’s) Golden Age output is much less than my awareness of DC’s Golden Age output.