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August 27, 2007


Jack Kirby Would Have Been 90 Today

The late Jack Kirby, one of the five foundational comics artists of the 20th Century, would have turned 90 today. Click through the image for a tiny sampling of his visual genius.

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CR Commentary
• In The Shadow Of No Towers Last Page In Two Halfs At Readable Size
• Here Are The Cartoonists And Comics-Related Folk For Whom We Currently Have Birthdates
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Letters to CR
• Rodrigo Baeza On Stuff In The Latest Kirby Family Filing I Should Not Have Found Confusing
• Craig Yoe On Why We Need To Buy His Packaged Tiger Tea From IDW
• Paul Karasik On 21 Things I Like About Dr. Strange
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• Jean-Marie Brouyère, 1943-2009
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Collective Memory
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