Comments on: CCL Podcast #187 – Jack Kirby’s Silver Star and OMAC http://www.collectedcomicslibrary.com/ccl-podcast-187-jack-kirbys-silver-star-and-omac/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ccl-podcast-187-jack-kirbys-silver-star-and-omac podcast & blog for unbiased comic book collected edition news and reviews Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:35:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Chris Marshall http://www.collectedcomicslibrary.com/ccl-podcast-187-jack-kirbys-silver-star-and-omac/#comment-82 Chris Marshall Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:18:48 +0000 http://www.collectedcomicslibrary.com/?p=701#comment-82 Mike Royer seemed to be Kirby's #1 guy in the later years. Having done not only a few OMAC issues and Silver Star but also The Eternals and Captain Victory. I'm guessing (as I stated in the podcast) that Kirby had 100% control over his work and no editor could tell him otherwise. A genius? Yes Kirby was. But his work near the end of his career was much different from when he hit his stride from his time with The Challengers and Atlas Era through the 1960's end (at Marvel). Mike Royer seemed to be Kirby’s #1 guy in the later years. Having done not only a few OMAC issues and Silver Star but also The Eternals and Captain Victory.
I’m guessing (as I stated in the podcast) that Kirby had 100% control over his work and no editor could tell him otherwise.
A genius? Yes Kirby was. But his work near the end of his career was much different from when he hit his stride from his time with The Challengers and Atlas Era through the 1960′s end (at Marvel).

]]> By: Bruce R http://www.collectedcomicslibrary.com/ccl-podcast-187-jack-kirbys-silver-star-and-omac/#comment-81 Bruce R Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:51:32 +0000 http://www.collectedcomicslibrary.com/?p=701#comment-81 You're a harder man than I am Chris! I consider myself somewhat of a Kirby fan, but this later stuff, in my opinion, is pretty much unreadable. I can barely get through the Eternals and after that, it's all downhill for me (but that's just MY opinion!). I think the later inkers who didn't deviate one line from Jack's pencils did him an injustice because as you said, his facial (and body for that matter) features were very "hard." A great artist like Joe Sinnott was able to make Kirby look really good. I will remind folks that Kirby was doing SO many books in the later 60's that even he didn't have time to do finished work, which left a lot for the inker to clean up. Even Colletta, who took great liberties with Jack's art when inking it, managed to soften the rough edges. And there's nothing wrong with that. Having a guy that could layout such incredible pages so dynamically must have been quite a boon to Marvel. Too bad the "suits" didn't realize that he was part of he equation that made Marvel great in the Silver Age. You’re a harder man than I am Chris! I consider myself somewhat of a Kirby fan, but this later stuff, in my opinion, is pretty much unreadable. I can barely get through the Eternals and after that, it’s all downhill for me (but that’s just MY opinion!).

I think the later inkers who didn’t deviate one line from Jack’s pencils did him an injustice because as you said, his facial (and body for that matter) features were very “hard.” A great artist like Joe Sinnott was able to make Kirby look really good. I will remind folks that Kirby was doing SO many books in the later 60′s that even he didn’t have time to do finished work, which left a lot for the inker to clean up. Even Colletta, who took great liberties with Jack’s art when inking it, managed to soften the rough edges. And there’s nothing wrong with that. Having a guy that could layout such incredible pages so dynamically must have been quite a boon to Marvel. Too bad the “suits” didn’t realize that he was part of he equation that made Marvel great in the Silver Age.

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