Comments on: Jack Kirby’s Experimental Photo Collage

By: Your Obedient Serpent

Your Obedient Serpent — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:02:27 +0000

@Bobby: THAT’S why it was so important. It was a story that wasn’t about powers, but about PEOPLE. That was always the hallmark of the Lee/Kirby FF and the rest of the early Marvel era, but “This Man … This Monster!” demonstrated that a pure human interest character study had enough power to carry a whole issue.

I love Kirby’s collage work. He played around with it a lot in the late ’60s and early ’70s, but the print technology of the time never did it justice. You can see a lot more of it in DC’s FOURTH WORLD OMINIBUS series.

Steranko took a shine to it, too, and added a few collages to his NICK FURY work.

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By: Bobby

Bobby — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:44:56 +0000

@Nick – Why was it so important? The book mentioned that there was only one instance of them using their powers, Johnny in the diner lights up his finger. But I’m not sure it makes it that important.

I was thinking that Bill Sienkiewicz and Dave McKean should be added to that list. David Mack is a great example, his covers for Alias are some of my favorites.

By: nickmaynard

nickmaynard — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:41:34 +0000

actually, story-wise “this man… this monster” is one of the most important early marvel comics.

also, the reason it wasn’t done more often has to do with the way comics were copied and colored back then. obviously, this kind of thing would be simple with a scanner and photoshop, but back then it was a really different story. comic book writer mark waid has a pretty funny anecdote about the way books used to be colored at the following interview that you might find to be helpful – http://wordballoon.blogspot.com/2007/10/future-of-graphic-literature.html

considering how easy it is, it’s probably a better question to ask why more people aren’t doing it NOW. aside from david mack, i can’t think of anyone who really uses collage in their art.

By: Adam Montoya

Adam Montoya — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:17:48 +0000

Kirby totally was far beyond his time and I think people are still catching up to him. As far as nobody else really doing this stuff back then, I think that being a living legend he was given pretty much free reign on some craziness at Marvel. Just look at his “Fourth World” mania for DC!