Jack Kirby citations

Jack Kirby, né Jacob Kurtzberg le 28 août 1917 dans le Lower East Side à New York et mort le 6 février 1994 à Thousand Oaks en Californie, est un dessinateur de bande dessinée et l'un des artistes les plus influents, célèbres et prolifiques de la bande dessinée américaine. Surnommé « the King of Comics » , il est à l'origine de nombreuses séries de qui marquent l'histoire des comics américains.

En 1940, il crée avec le scénariste Joe Simon la série Captain America ; en 1947, toujours avec Simon, il invente le genre des comics de romance ; dans les années 1960 avec Stan Lee, il crée de nombreux super-héros qui font la renommée de l'éditeur Marvel Comics, notamment les Quatre Fantastiques, L'Incroyable Hulk, le puissant Thor, les Vengeurs ou les X-Men ; enfin, dans les années 1970 pour l'éditeur DC Comics, il entreprend son œuvre la plus ambitieuse constituée de quatre comics reliés pour former une seule saga, Le Quatrième Monde. Par la suite, il poursuit une carrière moins marquée par la nouveauté mais toujours fructueuse, pour Marvel ou pour des éditeurs indépendants.

Kirby marque ainsi le monde des comics en produisant des œuvres qui connaissent un succès populaire et toujours admirées par ses pairs. Son goût pour le grotesque a valu à quelques-unes de ses œuvres de se faire censurer en France, y compris par ses éditeurs.

Malgré cette reconnaissance, Jack Kirby connaîtra des déboires avec ses éditeurs, surtout Marvel, qui ne reconnaît pas de droits d'auteur ; ce conflit, qui s'était achevé du vivant de Kirby, a depuis été repris car ses enfants en 2009, réclament à Marvel le retour des copyrights des séries créées dans les années 1960 ; la justice a rejeté le bien-fondé de cette demande, même si l'avocat des Kirby a fait appel. Si le nom de Jack Kirby est toujours connu dans l'univers des comics, c'est essentiellement grâce à la force de son art qui s'est parfaitement adapté au style épique des histoires de super-héros. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. août 1917 – 6. février 1994
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Jack Kirby: Citations en anglais

“I never do fairy tale people, I do people just as they are.”

“1993: Jack Kirby: The Hardest Working Man in Comics by Steve Pastis” https://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/effect/category/interview/, Happening Magazine, (1993) by Steve Pastin; as quoted by Rand Hoppe, The Kirby Effect The Journal of the Jack Kirby Museum & Research Center, (28 April 2018).
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“I feel that story, first. I know those people, first. When I put them down they've already lived.”

an archival video clip included in With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story, a 2010 documentary, beginning at 17:50

“There was power in the work of Jack Kirby that changed the way I looked at things. There was no one else like him and there never will be.”

Source: Guillermo del Toro, Jack Kirby, the abandoned hero of Marvel’s grand Hollywood adventure, and his family’s quest http://herocomplex.latimes.com/uncategorized/jack-kirby-the-forgotten-hero-in-marvels-grand-hollywood-adventure/, The Los Angeles Times, (September 25, 2009).

“My favorite thing about Kirby’s artwork was his storytelling. He was really a film director doing comics.”

Source: Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, the abandoned hero of Marvel’s grand Hollywood adventure, and his family’s quest http://herocomplex.latimes.com/uncategorized/jack-kirby-the-forgotten-hero-in-marvels-grand-hollywood-adventure/, Los Angeles Times, (September 25, 2009).

“Jack didn’t have the resources or the stomach lining to fight Marvel over copyrights, character ownership or past contractual sleights that he believed he suffered.”

Mark Evanier, "Jack Kirby, the abandoned hero of Marvel's grand Hollywood adventure, and his family's quest" http://herocomplex.latimes.com/uncategorized/jack-kirby-the-forgotten-hero-in-marvels-grand-hollywood-adventure/, Los Angeles Times, (September 25, 2009).
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“His real dream was to make movies.”

Rosalind Kirby, "Jack Kirby Interview" http://www.tcj.com/jack-kirby-interview/5/, The Comics Journal, (May 23, 2011).
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“Superheroes may be superhuman in stature but inside they’re human beings and they act and react as human beings. It doesn’t matter whether you’re doing legendary characters like Hercules or modern characters, you’ll find that humans are humans and they’ll react the same way in certain situations.”

Source: “1993: Jack Kirby: The Hardest Working Man in Comics by Steve Pastis” https://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/effect/category/interview/, Happening Magazine, (1993) by Steve Pastin; as quoted by Rand Hoppe, The Kirby Effect The Journal of the Jack Kirby Museum & Research Center, (28 April 2018).

“I can’t get over this guy. He creates 100 villains at a sitting and then kills off half of them. Any one of these villains I can make a million off of.”

Source: Stan Lee, “1993: Jack Kirby: The Hardest Working Man in Comics by Steve Pastis” https://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/effect/category/interview/, Happening Magazine, (1993) by Steve Pastin; as quoted by Rand Hoppe, The Kirby Effect The Journal of the Jack Kirby Museum & Research Center, (28 April 2018).

“To make the [reader] happy was not my objective, but to make the [reader] say, Yeah, that’s what would happen.”

that was my objective. I knew the [reader] was never happy all the time. You take the Thing, he’d knock out 50 guys at a time and win — then maybe he’d sit down and kind of reflect on it: “Maybe I hurt somebody or maybe we could have done it some other way” like a human being would think, not like a monster. In other books the guy would knock out the gangs and that would be the end of it. You would see the guys in jail, and that’s it. Or it would say, “Wait until next week.”
Source: 1990, Gary Groth interview

“I enjoyed working on any story. I’m essentially a storyteller. You name the subject, and I’ll give a good story on it.”

Source: page 5 http://www.tcj.com/jack-kirby-interview/5/ 1990, Gary Groth interview

“No, we didn’t do horror in the sense of haunted houses or people with masks the way you might see them today; something lurking in an anteroom. Our stories were more like peasants sitting around a fire. We had the “Strange World of Your Dreams.””

Ours didn’t run to bloody horror. Ours ran to weirdness. We began to interpret dreams. Remember, Joe and I were wholesome characters. We weren’t guys that were bent on the weird and the bizarre. We were the kind of guys who wouldn’t offend our mother, who wouldn’t offend anyone in your family, and certainly not the reader. So we knew that we had to depart from adventure and that there were other ways to go and we came up with the “Strange World of Your Dreams”.
Contexte: page 4 http://www.tcj.com/jack-kirby-interview/4/ 1990, Gary Groth interview

“I wasn't the kind of student that Pratt was looking for. They wanted people who would work on something forever. I didn't want to work on any project forever. I intended to get things done.”

Source: "'I've Never Done Anything Halfheartedly'". The Comics Journal. Seattle, Washington: Fantagraphics Books (134). February 1990. Reprinted in George, Milo, ed. (2002). The Comics Journal Library, Volume One: Jack Kirby. Seattle, Washington: Fantagraphics Books. p. 22.

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