The Jack Kirby Method

[JackDaw]

That is pretty cool.


John Ostrander, Tom Mandrake
Parker and CC Beck
Wrightson and Wein
EC Segar
George Herriman - who o might have been the greatest comic creator of them all
George McManus
Gardner Fox and artist Bert Christman
Lou Fine

Parker and CC Beck. Fortified by some poach eggs on toast and some coffee...this is one I realised I should have guessed double pronto last night. Long ago two young guys worked on a character called "Johnny Thunder"...who became Captain Marvel. (Who some people try to tell us should be called Shazam!)

EC Segar. This is one that made me smile when I looked up what he did. Popeye...the number of times I sat watching that with cousins, aunts, uncles, mum and dad..everyone engrossed..and didn't know the name of the guy who started it all. (Possibly a reflection of how large majority start following characters rather than creators, and how writers/ artists tended not to get the high profile credit they deserved back in the Golden Age.)

George Herriman. This is one I could not even hazard a guess on without wonders of google. I realised why as soon as I saw what he did...American newspaper cartoons, a subject I know nothing about. As a side issue...I tend to forget now just how much pleasure British strip cartoons (such as Andy Capp, Garth, The Fosdyke Saga) gave me decades ago. But enough waffle...Krazy Kat.

Similar thoughts (to George Herriman) apply to George MacManus..."Bringing up Father" and Lou Fine..The Spirit.

Now Gardner Fox/ Bert Christman. If it was Gardner on his own, I'd have been really struggling. There's something about his style that I really like..so I'd have been pondering between his work on JLA, Hawkman, Flash, etc. There's at least some case to be made that "Flash of Two Worlds" was one of most influential DC comics ever. But given the full Fox/ Christman combo...I guess it has to be Sandman.

[mrbrklyn]

Parker and CC Beck. Fortified by some poach eggs on toast and some coffee...this is one I realised I should have guessed double pronto last night. Long ago two young guys worked on a character called "Johnny Thunder"...who became Captain Marvel. (Who some people try to tell us should be called Shazam!)

EC Segar. This is one that made me smile when I looked up what he did. Popeye...the number of times I sat watching that with cousins, aunts, uncles, mum and dad..everyone engrossed..and didn't know the name of the guy who started it all. (Possibly a reflection of how large majority start following characters rather than creators, and how writers/ artists tended not to get the high profile credit they deserved back in the Golden Age.)

George Herriman. This is one I could not even hazard a guess on without wonders of google. I realised why as soon as I saw what he did...American newspaper cartoons, a subject I know nothing about. As a side issue...I tend to forget now just how much pleasure British strip cartoons (such as Andy Capp, Garth, The Fosdyke Saga) gave me decades ago. But enough waffle...Krazy Kat.

Similar thoughts (to George Herriman) apply to George MacManus..."Bringing up Father" and Lou Fine..The Spirit.

Now Gardner Fox/ Bert Christman. If it was Gardner on his own, I'd have been really struggling. There's something about his style that I really like..so I'd have been pondering between his work on JLA, Hawkman, Flash, etc. There's at least some case to be made that "Flash of Two Worlds" was one of most influential DC comics ever. But given the full Fox/ Christman combo...I guess it has to be Sandman.

That is pretty good! The Lou Fine book I was thinking of was the Black Condor, although that is one of a few related creations he had at Quality Comics. He was largely the influence of Kirby.

Check this out:
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Nobody who is serious about Comics should go without an education in Krazy Kat and George Herriman. He is the top top that has ever been

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