Crystal Studies

these are my cartooned versions of what I like about Kirby's Crystal character.

Tricky Angles

Grogg VS Orrgo - who is more frightening in short pants?

http://goldenagecomicbookstories.blogspot.com/2010/09/jack-kirby-dick-ayers-steve-ditko.htmlThat website is fantastic, by the way. Lots of great illustrators from 100 years ago or so.

Kirby Back 3/4 Heads

This is an angle I've always found hard to construct.I love the way Kirby does it.

Crystal and Johnny

I drawed it, Kali inked it.

Kirby Wrinkles

Classic Kirby Faces

Kirby Effects and Graphic Textures

These all predate the famous iconic Kirby cosmic dots effects he used so much from the 60s on.

Kirby Aliens

Do you love Kirby aliens as much as I do?I can never figure out whether they are supposed to be funny or serious.I hope they meant to be taken seriously because that makes them even funnier.

Kirby Before Marvel: Anatomical Structure

The Kirby style most people are familiar with is the superflat 70s and 80s Kirby. At least that's the style people generally imitate when they draw in his style.I love his 60s Marvel superheroes, not just because of his iconic surface stylings, but because of how solid his drawings were. You can see that even better in his earlier comics.Kirby is known for making up muscles that don't exist, but

In Progress

Still got some details to finish...like another arm for Johnny.Well it's not really a caricature of Kirby's style. it's more of a combination of him, Mad comics and Not Brand Ecchh - and me.

Kirby Is Killing Me

I know you're dying for an exlanation of that crying tree.It all started with an assignment I have to draw an illustration using some Marvel characters in my style.My idea was to do a cartoony caricature of Kirby. As you can see, this is not an easy task.I'm trying to come up with one good pose of Crystal from the Inhumans.So far, not happy with any.Drawing girls is hard enough.Trying to draw

Kirby Fantastic Four Covers

I was obsessed with these comics when I was a kid.I didn't start buying them until 1966. Before that I thought the drawings were too bizarre.Once I got hooked I wanted to buy all the back issues.Luckily, in those days there was always a garage sale every weekend where some kid would be selling all his comics for a penny each so I went and bought all the issues dating back to the beginning.It was

Kirby Studies

Mystery Doodles