Behind the cut is a study I wrote some fifteen years ago, of a comic by Jack Kirby that I regard as one of his greatest masterpieces.( Read more... )

Waringing - SPOILERS all over the place. This is written from the assumption that everyone who reads it will have seen the film

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I started my comics-related blog with an article I wrote long ago, about Mark Gruenwald's run on Captain America: http://barbieri-comics.blogspot.com/2010/07/necessary-rachel-mark-gruenwalds-run-on.html .

This is the first reprint of a series of essays I wrote ten or so years ago about various works by the great American cartoonist Jack Kirby. It is probably of little interest to most, so you can skip it if you want; I am reprinting them after a disagreement with johncwright. It is rather reworked, and, I hope, improved.
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