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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.

A Walking, Talking Miracle!

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It’s day 26 of this year’s Jack Kir­by Trib­ute Month, and the theme we’re work­ing with this week is char­ac­ters raised in Granny Good­ness’ Orphan­age on Apokolips. Today’s prompt is Mis­ter Miracle!

I’ve drawn him before, not just for last year’s Jack Kir­by Trib­ute Month, but also a few times when I was younger. Some­thing about the char­ac­ter caught my eye. I’ve got a soft spot for him. Maybe it was the fact he was the clos­est thing in Kir­by’s Fourth World titles to look­ing like a reg­u­lar super­hero, or the bright col­or scheme. Per­haps it was also the super-sci­en­tif­ic escape act, that had him get­ting out of sit­u­a­tions that looked impos­si­ble. Maybe I was­n’t alone in being fas­ci­nat­ed, because appar­ent­ly sales fig­ures prompt­ed DC to keep Mis­ter Mir­a­cle going longer than any of the oth­er Fourth World titles.

It looks bad for our hero, but I’m sure he’ll get out of this at the last pos­si­ble moment! Tomor­row will be anoth­er for­mer res­i­dent of Granny Good­ness’ Orphanage.

It’s a Miracle!

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We’ve hit Day 16 of Howard Simp­son’s month-long cel­e­bra­tion of the work of Jack Kir­by! It’s open to all cre­atives, and you can find the work peo­ple are upload­ing to your favorite social media plat­forms by the hash­tag #Kir­b­yArt­Trib­ut­es.

The prompt for the day is Mis­ter Mir­a­cle. The lead char­ac­ter in the com­ic named for him, he was part of the Fourth World saga Jack Kir­by spun over at DC. Known as Scott Free in his civil­ian iden­ti­ty, Mis­ter Mir­a­cle lived here on Earth and worked as an amaz­ing escape artist. Mis­ter Mir­a­cle’s back sto­ry is actu­al­ly pret­ty pro­found. I don’t want to spoil it for those who haven’t read it, but it’s cov­ered in the sto­ries “The Pact” (New Gods #7), and “Himon” (Mis­ter Mir­a­cle #9).

I recall tak­ing a crack at draw­ing Mis­ter Mir­a­cle a few times back in high school, as I was a big fan of the Fourth World mate­r­i­al. It’s been a long time!

Hope you enjoy, and stay tuned!