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
handed
I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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.
want capability humans
All human beings have the capability of doing what they want, what they're attracted to.
humble artist editors
Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble.
kind brands brand-new
Nobody ever asked me to do anything. Nobody knew what to do. When comics were brand new, nobody knew what kind of comics to make. So you were mostly on your own.
independent men feelings
I feel like an independent man, and I am. This is the kind of feeling I always wanted. You can rarely get that... Well, I could rarely get that in the early part of my life.
where-we-come equations
Aw, where we come from the Anti-Life Equation is one of many others--almost as awesome!! But they merely exist!!
curriculum students excellent
I was a good student in the subjects that I wanted to be good in. The curriculum in my section was excellent.
drawing bucks
I admired anybody who could make a buck with his drawing.
sections
I'm OMAC! Evacuate this section! I'm going to destroy it!
fighting odds ducks
I never duck out of a fight; I don't care what the hell the odds are, and I'm rough at times, but I try to be a decent guy all the time. That's the way I've always lived.
long joy fiction
I took a great joy with inventing new kinds of mechanisms. I invented new kinds of machines. I've been a student of science fiction for a long, long time, and I'm very well-versed in science fact and science fiction.
fighting fire way
A climb-out fight is where you climb a building. You climb fire escapes. You climb to the top of the building. You fight on the roof, and you fight all the way down again.
parent source factories
My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor.