{"id":5724,"date":"2011-08-28T12:49:23","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T16:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=5724"},"modified":"2021-03-20T12:10:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T16:10:27","slug":"jack-the-king-kirby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=5724","title":{"rendered":"Jack &#8220;The King&#8221; Kirby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2011\/z082811kirby_mrmiracle.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"723\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today <strong>Jack <em>&#8220;The King&#8221;<\/em> Kirby <\/strong>would have been <strong>94<\/strong> years old.\u00a0 It&#8217;s our loss that he&#8217;s no longer with us.\u00a0 Yet, he created so many <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">characters<\/span> universes that we will always have plenty of his art\/stories to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When I was a kid, I loved <strong>Jack Kirby&#8217;s<\/strong> work on <strong>Captain America, Rawhide Kid <\/strong>and especially <strong>Mister Miracle<\/strong>.\u00a0 Then when I got a bit older, I stopped enjoying <strong>Mr. Kirby&#8217;s<\/strong> output.\u00a0 I had moved on to more mature comics&#8230; or at least that&#8217;s how I looked at it then.\u00a0 Now I see I was missing out on the work of a legend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Mark Evanier posted<\/strong> a nice remembrance and video.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bleedingcool.com\/2011\/08\/28\/jack-kirbys-birthday-original-artwork-gallery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Bleeding Cool put up<\/strong><\/span><\/a> a cool <strong>Kirby<\/strong> art gallery.\u00a0 It&#8217;s nice that <strong>Jack Kirby<\/strong> continues to inspire so many.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Jack &#8220;The King&#8221; Kirby would have been 94 years old.\u00a0 It&#8217;s our loss that he&#8217;s no longer with us.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[58,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5724"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26425,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5724\/revisions\/26425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}