Tag: Peggy Carter

Kirby Kurtain Kall

Though August is over and it’s now Sept. 1st, I have an estab­lished tra­di­tion of tak­ing all my Kir­by Trib­ute Month images and putting them togeth­er into one big poster image. This year is no different.

Though I drew them all and know each image well by this point, I get a dif­fer­ent per­spec­tive when I com­bine them after the fact like this, apprais­ing the work I did from an over­all view.

This is now the fourth year that I’ve done Jack Kir­by Trib­ute Month, and it’s inter­est­ing to see how much more detailed and involved these small illus­tra­tions have become each year. That’s noth­ing to do with the prompts them­selves (though those can cre­ate their own chal­lenges). It’s more to do with feel­ing the need to move beyond just straight por­traits, to come up with some­thing that feels like there’s a sto­ry to it.

That’s about all there is to say. I always learn some­thing when I do these, so hope­ful­ly you’ve enjoyed this year’s journey.

Peggy Carter and the Resistance

It’s Day Six of this year’s Jack Kir­by Trib­ute Month, curat­ed by Howard Simp­son. Today’s prompt is Peg­gy Carter, Cap­tain Amer­i­ca’s WWII love.

Most peo­ple are prob­a­bly more aware of the MCU ver­sion of the char­ac­ter, played by Hay­ley Atwell. The char­ac­ter was a lit­tle dif­fer­ent in the comics. We first see her in a flash­back in Tales of Sus­pense #77, where Cap­tain Amer­i­ca meets her as she works with a group of French resis­tance fight­ers going up against Ger­mans flee­ing Nor­mandy via the Falaise Gap.

This issue was drawn dur­ing a peri­od when Mar­vel kept Jack very busy. Not only was he pen­cil­ing (and like­ly dri­ving the plots of) Fan­tas­tic Four and Thor, he was also gen­er­at­ing page lay­outs for sev­er­al oth­er titles, which were giv­en to oth­er pen­cil­ers to work from. So they could devel­op a feel for “the Mar­vel style.” This par­tic­u­lar sto­ry fea­tured John Romi­ta’s pen­cils over Jack­’s lay­outs, so it’s fair to say that Romi­ta had a hand in shap­ing Peg­gy Carter’s look too. You can def­i­nite­ly see it in the comic.

For what it’s worth, rather than just fak­ing her rifle, I did a lit­tle weapons research. Based on that, I gave her an M1 Garand. It’s con­sid­ered an icon­ic U.S. Army or Marine Corps WWII-era ser­vice rifle.

Any­way, this is my take on Peg­gy Carter. Feel free to return tomor­row to see who’s next.