Column -- "Kirby: Attention Paid"
- ASU Author/Contributor (non-ASU co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Ph.D.. Craig Fischer, Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- Appalachian State University (ASU )
- Web Site: https://library.appstate.edu/
Abstract: Last month, I wrote that my “Monsters Eat Critics” column would focus on genres other than superhero comics, and this month my topic is (cue trumpets) Jack Kirby’s Silver Age Marvel art. But I can’t help myself. I love the detail in Jack Kirby’s art. I love how he fills his panels with an almost promiscuous number of real and imagined objects, and I’m perpetually amazed by his ability to visualize and draw people and things from any angle in 360-degree space. My fascination with Kirby’s detailed, stylized, three-dimensional spaces has led me to write a few tentative ideas about how Kirby’s images—particularly in the 1966-67 heyday of the Fantastic Four, for me the visual apogee of Kirby’s art—structure a reader’s attention, and how backgrounds generally function in comic art.
Column -- "Kirby: Attention Paid"
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Fischer, C. (2011). "Kirby: Attention Paid" The Comics Journal (TCJ), November 21, 2011. Version of record available at: http://www.tcj.com/kirby-attention-paid/
- Language: English
- Date: 2011
- Keywords
- Jack Kirby, Joe Sinnott, Marvel, Comics, Art