Jack Kirby

[American Illustrator, 1917-1994]

• Also known as:	Jacob Kurtzberg
• Subject matter:	Specializes in Comic Art.
• Browse all: American artists / illustrators

Museums and Public Art Galleries:

Armand Hammer Museum of Art at UCLA, California
2 comic pages are by Kirby

Professional Tools:

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Pictures from Image Archives:

Comic Art Community

Comics Wallpapers
A total of about 5 800x600 wallpaper images or Kirby's art are available here

InterCom International Comics Discussion
Some lesser-known stuff. The scans for the "Marvelman" story are enormous.

Pigdog Productions

Web Sites About the Artist:

Jack Kirby Museum and Research Center
This group have a few online exhibitions worth viewing, but they don't have a physical location

The Jack Kirby Comics Weblog
Lots of eclectic information here, although it's a blog so the structure is a little disorganized.

Other Web Sites:

Artcyclopedia
cover for Fantastic Four #92

FFPlaza
Index of Marvel comics illustrated by Jack Kirby.
Titles listed include Amazing Adventures, Avengers, Fantastic Four, Human Torch, Inhumans, Journey into Mystery, Sgt. Fury, Silver Surfer, Strange Tales, Thor, and others.

Imakinarium (in Spanish)

Marvel Masterworks
Click on the volume for a few detail images. Many of these Marvel Masterworks feature art by Jack Kirby.

Marvel Masterworks
Another chronology of Kirby's work at Marvel

MRLComics
Great scans of Fantastic Four covers, starting at #1.
Kirby did the cover art for issues #1-101, 164, 167, 171-177, 180, 181, 190, 200.

POV Online's Jack Kirby FAQ

The Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators
Extensive list of Kirby's work at Marvel as both a writer and artist

Tom Hart dot net
Street Code, words and artwork by Jack Kirby

Articles:

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia

Bud Plant Illustrated Books
Biography with sample images

Jack Kirby Collector Magazine
Many of the issues shown have an article or two readable online

Lambiek Comiclopedia

The Comics Journal
A couple of articles related to Kirby's legal battles with Marvel Comics

The New York Times
Click on "The Thing" for an interactive "Close Reading" of Jack Kirby's art

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The Comics Journal Library: Jack Kirby

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Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, and the American Comic Book Revolution

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Collected Jack Kirby Collector, Vol. 3

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Collected Jack Kirby Collector, Vol. 4

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Collected Jack Kirby Collector, Vol. 5

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The Essential Thor

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