Happy 96th birthday, Jack

Final Panel, New Gods #6, "The Glory Boat"

My piece on the Jack Kirby panel above is now up at Kirb Your Enthusiasm at HiLowBrow.com.

Let me know what you think.

Me on Jack Kirby at Kirb Your Enthusiasm

Over at HiLoBrow.com, Joshua Glenn is running a series called Kirb Your Enthusiasm, in which 25 writers are each given a single Jack Kirby-drawn non-splash comic book panel, and asked to write about it. And I was lucky enough to be one of the 25. As I said in an e-mail to Ava, "I'm going to get paid to write about Jack Kirby? I just died and went to heaven."

The series has been running for a couple of weeks now, so dip in and enjoy. My panel (from New Gods #6) is scheduled to come up this Monday, March 7th.

Awesome. Which should probably be spelled "Awesoume."

From Harry Knowles' Twitter feed, via Chud: faux Jack Kirby comic book covers for the 1970's adaptation of Inglourious Basterds:

And K is for King

copyright 1998 Roger Langridge; link from The Beat

Happy 90th birthday, Jack . . .