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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2017 14:22:05 GMT -5
Some Kirby art most people may have overlooked, the packaging art for the Big Jim toy line in the 70s  courtesy Brian Heller's Plaid Stallions feed -M |
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Post by kirby101 on Aug 28, 2017 15:12:57 GMT -5
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Post by dbutler69 on Aug 28, 2017 17:55:17 GMT -5
Kirby draws God. Pencils and inks. These weren't done for any known project. He did them for himself.    Whew, now I finally know what God look like! |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2017 21:06:52 GMT -5
I did love when "the face of God" was featured in Kirby: Genesis:  |
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Post by kirby101 on Aug 28, 2017 21:23:32 GMT -5
Very cool Parallax.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2017 15:12:52 GMT -5
From his family's Facebook page, a Kirby Space Collage...  -M |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2017 22:40:05 GMT -5
From NYCC and done by SyFy Wire, here's part of a segment with Walt Simonson and John Byrne talking Kirby...
-M
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Post by EdoBosnar on Oct 14, 2017 2:47:28 GMT -5
Yep, watched that video last night. It's interesting in that I understand Byrne almost never makes appearances at cons any more. Too bad it's so short, I could listen to those two shoot the breeze for hours.
By the way, that Kirby space collage you posted has me a bit puzzled; I'm almost completely certain that a few of those spaceships were taken from John Berkey illustrations.
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Post by tarkintino on Oct 16, 2017 22:20:55 GMT -5
By the way, that Kirby space collage you posted has me a bit puzzled; I'm almost completely certain that a few of those spaceships were taken from John Berkey illustrations. Yes, unless this piece was revealed to be an admitted tribute, it was definitely swiped from the work of Berkey, specifically his art for the cover of the 1978 T.A. Heppenheimer novel, Colonies in Space--  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2017 22:36:56 GMT -5
ahem did y'all miss that it's a collage...
using other art or found art in collages is pretty much standard practice.
-M
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Post by berkley on Oct 16, 2017 22:52:02 GMT -5
From NYCC and done by SyFy Wire, here's part of a segment with Walt Simonson and John Byrne talking Kirby... -M It would have been interesting to hear them ask Byrne about the less positive side of his relationship with Kirby - his siding with Marvel against Kirby during their disagreement, the Destroyer Duck thing, the perceived petty revenge he took with the Barda/Superman story, etc. |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Oct 17, 2017 3:45:03 GMT -5
Yes, I know what a a collage is, but thanks, I guess, for taking the trouble to post a dictionary entry. My point was that most of the Kirby collages I've seen (and granted, I'm not an expert on his collage work) usually featured his own art quite prominently on them, either as foregrounds or backgrounds. None of the art here (not even the dots very much) looks like Kirby's, and I'm noticing quite a few Berkey spaceships (not just the big one) - almost like it's a tribute to him. It just doesn't look very Kirbyesque to me.
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Post by tarkintino on Oct 17, 2017 14:17:19 GMT -5
Yes, I know what a a collage is, but thanks, I guess, for taking the trouble to post a dictionary entry. My point was that most of the Kirby collages I've seen (and granted, I'm not an expert on his collage work) usually featured his own art quite prominently on them, either as foregrounds or backgrounds. None of the art here (not even the dots very much) looks like Kirby's, and I'm noticing quite a few Berkey spaceships (not just the big one) - almost like it's a tribute to him. It just doesn't look very Kirbyesque to me. ...and it should not be treated as an original work, since Berkey's art is so prominently featured. The issue is whether or not Kirby actually gave credit where it was due for such a widely known/popular artist like Berkey. |
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Post by berkley on Oct 17, 2017 14:46:54 GMT -5
This is really pathetic.
I don't believe Kirby ever credited any of the sources from which he took various images for those collages. I imagine he just took it for granted that readers would understand he was grabbing images from anywhere and everywhere.
Accusing him of stealing or whatever the accusation is seems to me laughable in the context of how his collages were made and used.
Does anyone really think he was trying to pass this off as a spaceship he had painted himself? No? Good, you had me worried there for a second.
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Post by MDG on Oct 17, 2017 15:36:24 GMT -5
I also don't think he did that collage for publication, just for his own amusement. Other examples:   |
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