Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby, born Jacob Kurtzberg, was an American comic book artist, writer, and editor widely regarded as one of the medium's major innovators and one of its most prolific and influential creators...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComic Book Artist
Date of Birth28 August 1917
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
hurt powerful men
A man is entitled to draw things in his own style. I didn't hurt Superman. I made him powerful. I admire Superman, but I've got to do my own style.
real suits stereotype
Some of my friends became gangsters. You became a gangster depending upon how fast you wanted a suit. Gangsters weren't the stereotypes you see in the movies. I knew the real ones, and the real ones were out for big money.
done half audience
I've never done anything half-heartedly; it's a disservice to me and the audience if I do it half-heartedly.
kids heart break
Kid ... Comics will break your heart.
want capability humans
All human beings have the capability of doing what they want, what they're attracted to.
dream our-dreams
Our dreams make us large.
men thinking hands
If you think a man draws the type of hands that you want to draw, steal ‘em. Take those hands.
interesting answers life-is
I feel that life is a series of very interesting questions, and very poor answers. But I myself am willing to settle for the questions. If the questions are interesting, I feel I evoke them in what I do. I feel that should be good enough for everyone else.
children home men
I had to make a living. I was a married man. I had a wife. I had a home. I had children. I had to make a living. That's the common pursuit of every man.
character elements
A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth.
mirrors people done
I draw people as I see them. I'm not involved in making artistic masterpieces. My, my object is to mirror people and I've always done that.
character people having-hope
I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through.
art home men
I taught myself how to draw, and I soon found out it was what I really wanted to do. I didn't think I was going to create any great masterpieces like Rembrandt or Gauguin. I thought comics was a common form of art, and strictly American in my estimation, because America was the home of the common man - and show me the common man that can't do a comic. So comics is an American form of art that anyone can do with a pencil and paper.
real guy would-be
The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it.