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
men good-man trying
I feel that any man that tries, any man that comes out with something we like, is a good man. A man doesn't have to be Leonardo Da Vinci to be sincere.
dream children stress
All life on Earth is subject to the rumbles and rockings of the parent stucture which has no control over the disastrous effects of its stresses and strains on whatever thrives on its surface. The ambitions and dreams of men are irrelevant to this planetary giant which pursues its own way in its own manner. Man is its child, tenant and still, to this date, its captive.
reading forever gone
Superman is going to live forever. They'll be reading Superman in the next century when you and I are gone. I felt, in that respect, I was doing the same thing. I wanted to be known. I wasn't going to sell a comic that was going to die quickly.
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.