Remaining sketchbooks from Kirby’s earlier days are filled with pencil renderings of expertly-formed, carefully-shaded figures and scenes. A semi-realistic caricature-realistic to be identifiable and exaggerated for effect. It does, however, perfectly convey the idea of figures in motion. Rather, it was to tell exciting, interesting stories-the Kirby conception of anatomy, for example, defies all manner of real physiology. From the start, his drawing style was never intended to emulate reality or to provide any sort of photographic representation. for it was most likely what led the youthful Kirby into comics instead of into serious illustration. The storytelling sense grew, as well, and it was to be important. He learned techniques, not styles, and then went on to make them his own. Some of them have adopted its techniques with little reservations and others, like Kirby, now boast very little of the then-important Raymond influence.
Splendidly illustrated, it has served as the model for a majority of today’s panel-artists. An early source of art-inspiration, for example, was Alex Raymond’s Flash Gordon newspaper strip. He learned from anyone who had something to offer, adopting the virtues and making them his own. Jack Kirby was, then, the student without an official teacher. Schooling was not the best and certainly inadequate in the field of creative writing and art. That, more than anything else, occupied young Jack’s time.
And, too, there was the foreshadowing of what was to come-the doodles cluttering every available scrap of paper, the “wasted” afternoons at the movies. And the growing up period is not entirely atypical, either: Street-fighting, the usual childhood activities, and the burgeoning instinct of self-preservation were all a part of it. The birth date was August 28, 1917, and the Kurtzberg family was one more strong. Like many of today’s success stories, it all begins with a birth date on the Lower East Side of New York City.
2 Jack Kirby's Family and Marvel Studios.1.3 DC Comics and the Fourth World saga.
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