Tuesday, 11 February 2020

That time I inked Jack Kirby

Back in 1997 Chrissie Harper asked me to do a page for the Jack Kirby Quarterly, a magazine dedicated to the work of the King. I was sent an A3 photocopy of a sketch that Jack Kirby had done years earlier. A stat of his pencils showing Captain America and his nemesis the Red Skull. My brief was to ink the image but change the Red Skull into my character Brickman, yet retaining the Kirby style.

It was a very enjoyable job to do. As I only had a photocopy to ink I used my Lightbox to do the job, inking it on good quality Bristol board. I was happy with the result...

When the image was published in Jack Kirby Quarterly No.11 (1997) Chrissie had added some tone to enhance it. I liked the effect! 

 This is the issue it's in, if you're ever searching the back issue boxes at conventions...

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4 comments:

  1. Rick Cowling11 February 2020 at 22:26

    Cool! :-)

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  2. Lew Stringer11 February 2020 at 23:05

    Thanks Rick!

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  3. Manic Man12 February 2020 at 09:42

    I could make a comment "and to think, Marvel used Colletta' but... yeah.. Let's not go into that too much ^_^ nice work though maybe, and this is a maybe, a couple of bits you could have cleaned up a bit more but its always a pain to ink someone else's work.

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  4. Lew Stringer12 February 2020 at 13:10

    It wasn't a pain at all. As I said, I enjoyed it!

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