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
jobs people beef
I've done my job extremely well. My only beef is that a lot of people have put their fingers in whatever I've done and tried to screw it up, and I've always resented that.
house fields animation
I'd had a belly-full of being subservient. I had to find something else to do, and I did. I went to the animation houses. I went to new fields.
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.
artist guy actors
I'm a guy who had to perform some way. I had to perform in some way. If not as an actor, I'd perform as an artist. It would have been something that would be outstanding in its own way.
looks purpose done
I've never done anything bad. I can't do anything bad. It's got to be professional. It's got to look professional. It's got to read professional. In other words, it serves its purpose by entertaining a reader.
people trying benefits
I won't do anything bad, and I resent very deeply bad people who haven't got the ability, who try to interfere with the kind of work I'm trying to do because nobody's going to benefit from it.
people guy association
The people who worked in comics were terrific guys. I had a good association with them, and I enjoyed comics for that very reason.
done versions institute
I had very high respect for the Pratt Institute, but I thought that I had done my best, and that was not their version of the best.
horror affinity
I didn't have an affinity for horror. But I knew that commercially it was viable.
mother father men
Every father was his own man. He did what he wanted. If your mother went shopping, your father never went with her.
self style taught
My anatomy was self-taught. I feel everybody has that ability. I drew instinctively. Mine was an instinctive style.
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!
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.