Personal Look into the life of Jack Kirby The King Of Comics

Greg

Jeremy Kirby, grandson of Jack Kirby, is working on a retrospective book and has it up on Kickstarter.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1478125734/personal-look-into-the-life-of-jack-kirby-the-king

nweathington

It will certainly have some interesting content. Hopefully the finished product will turn out better than the Captain Victory project he did back in 2000. I'm sure he'll make his goal at the very least. I wish him luck!

SolitaireRose

It has already made its goal, and I've asked for info on a stretch goal...maybe we'll get ALL of the Kirby plays printed!

nweathington

I wonder if Jeremy is counting “Fish in a Barrel” as one of those plays. Jack’s name is on the cover sheet, but Joe Simon said he wrote it by himself sometime around 1955, and the Jack’s name was only on it because he signed off on it as part of the studio partnership. The first page of it ran in The Jack Kirby Collector #52, but I read the whole thing while I scanned Jack’s copy, and it was okay—not great, but entertaining enough. The plot revolved around a comic book artist in a legal battle with a comic book publisher over royalty fees—I kid you not.

SolitaireRose

Well, since they had just won a lawsuit with the publisher of Young Love at the time, they'd certainly have a lot of information about it.

nweathington

Yeah, I'm sure that was the inspiration, though the play is more comedy than drama if I'm remembering correctly (it's been over ten years since I read it). But if Jeremy is including that in his count, it may be one he won't be able to run, because he'd have to get the permission from the Simon Estate, and I doubt Jim Simon (assuming he's in charge of the estate) would let him print it without a large fee.