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…And an Encore!

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Well, we just com­plet­ed anoth­er Jack Kir­by Trib­ute Month (curat­ed and cre­at­ed by Howard Simp­son). I guess you could call this the bonus round. Like last year, I decid­ed to try to assem­ble all of these into one, big image. With the excep­tion of yes­ter­day’s “wild card” round, which was not a Jack Kir­by cre­ation, so it does­n’t belong here. Plus 30 images just group togeth­er a lot eas­i­er than 31!

See­ing all of these togeth­er, I’m struck by how busy the end result is! There’s a lot going on. I guess that’s a result of my try­ing to give each pan­el a sense of nar­ra­tive, as if they were each ran­dom­ly plucked from the midst of larg­er stories.

A lot­ta work there! See­ing them all togeth­er makes me real­ize that. But it’s cool see­ing them all in this context.

Will I do this again next year? We’ll see. I may tweak my process a lit­tle bit. I did this year, by adding the nar­ra­tive aspect.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this trip with me, found it fun and inspirational.

Sneaky!

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We’ve made it to the 18th day of this year’s Jack Kir­by Trib­ute Month (cre­at­ed by Howard Simp­son)! A new week means a new theme: Asgard week, fea­tur­ing char­ac­ters who appeared in Jack­’s run on Jour­ney into Mystery/Thor. And this first day, the prompt is none oth­er than that wily ras­cal, Loki!

Loki made a pret­ty good ongo­ing threat to Thor and Asgard. He was always very crafty in how he went about his schemes, and even man­aged to gain con­trol of Asgard at one point! A lot has hap­pened to the char­ac­ter in the years since, but that “trick­ster” ele­ment has remained a part of his character.

I’ve said this pre­vi­ous­ly, but Jour­ney into Mystery/Thor is an impor­tant book to look at when study­ing the body of Jack­’s Mar­vel work. All his Mar­vel work is worth look­ing at, but I’ve come to the con­clu­sion that there are two books that are the pil­lars of his Mar­vel work, that must be tak­en into account. I’m talk­ing about the Fan­tas­tic Four, and Jour­ney into Mystery/Thor. Those are the two books where you not only see a storyteller/artist work­ing at the top of their craft, you also get to see a glimpse of Jack Kir­by as a per­son, the things that inter­est­ed and moti­vat­ed him. Thor shows the inter­est that Jack had in myths and leg­ends which ran through his career.

It was fun to take a shot at draw­ing a clas­sic-style Loki here. If you’re curi­ous as to who might be next, pop by again tomorrow!