Comic book artists and writers: Jack Kirby

This post will be on the "King of Comics", Jack Kirby. Kirby helped to create some of the greatest and most memorable characters in the Marvel pantheon. He started his work in the Golden Age of Comics, the 1940's, partnering with Joe Simon to create one of the countries most patriotic heroes, Captain America. In the 60's, when Marvel's sales were going down due to the rising popularity of DC Comics, revived superheroes, he created along with Stan Lee, the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, the original X-Men. Over the years until his death he continued to expand the mediums boundaries,devising photo-collage covers and interiors, developing new drawing techniques such as the method for depicting energy fields now known as "Kirby Dots", and other experiments. He also created the Fourth World, introducing characters like Darkseid, Orion and the other New Gods and residents of Apokolips. He continued to create amazing characters and drawings, his work being some of the most recognizable comic book art of the 20th century. Jack Kirby died on February 6, 1994.