[UA] The Real deal with Jack Kirby (was Cannibal)?

[Cassady Toles]

I have at best minimal understanding of how this is related to UA at all,
but here's the deal with Jack Kirby.

The first comic books were printed by Willian Gaines Sr.  They were the
collected Sunday Funnies reprinted in a cuarto format.  After that the
medium became it's own format, that's when we get the Herge's (tin tin) the
crime comics, the pirate comics, etc.  

If you look at old comics, you'll notice something.  They have either nine
or twelve panels arranged evenly three or four rows of three.  Further, the
art looks a lot like peanuts, they're all "shot" from the same angle. 
There's  a certain pattern to it.

Kirby did superheroes and he wrote a whole new book.  He was the first
artist in comics to do a splash panel.  A single image that covers both of
the pages facing.  He would do cuts from one to another.  He took the comic
book and turned it from something you would see in a modern day.  And his
conventions are used in modern newspaper comic strips as well as every genre
of comics on earth, with the possible exception of manga (which uses
conventions from film).  He also did superhero books that were about
character not plot.

The modern batman who worries if his father would be proud and pays visible
attention to a line which he won't cross owes its existance to Jack Kirby
just as much as silver surfer does.

If you like Kirby that's fine.  If you don't like Kirby, that's fine too,
but know that when you read any comic book since 1970, it's a tribute to
Jack Kirby.  Not just the Alan Moore's who know it.

Now, this is all related to UA because Kirby could feasably be revered as an
icon by iconomancers.  A major charge could be used for KIRBY WAS THE FIRST,
to make some innovation in a field which immediately gets picked up by
everybody as necessary.

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"I am the messiah in the bottom of a bottle of Jack Daniel's.  Drink of me
and
no peace." -- Cobra Baghdad www.peoplehateme.com
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