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Jack Kirby Biography

Jack Kirby (/ˈkɜːrbi/; born Jacob Kurtzberg /ˈkɜːrtsbɜːrɡ/; August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994) was an American comic book artist, writer, and editor, widely regarded as one of the medium's major innovators and one of its most prolific and influential creators.

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Nobody ever wrote a story for me. I told in every story what was really inside my gut, and it came out that way. My stories began to get noticed because the average reader could associate with them.

Average, Noticed, Stories, Told, Way

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

Done, Forever, Looking, People, Pratt, Work

I didn't resolve the questions. . . and I find that entertaining. And if my life were to end tomorrow, it would be fulfilled in that manner. I would say, 'The questions have been terrific. '

Ends, Entertaining, Life, Say, Tomorrow, Would Be

I came out of school one day, and there was this pulp magazine. It was a rainy day, and it was floating toward the sewer in the gutter. So I pick up this pulp magazine, and it's Wonder Stories, and it's got a rocket-ship on the cover, and I'd never seen a rocket-ship.

Cover, Magazine, One Day, Rainy Day, School, Seen

I've never done anything bad. I can't do anything bad. It's got to be professional. It's got to look professional. It's got to read professional. In other words, it serves its purpose by entertaining a reader.

Bad, Done, Look, Looks, Purpose

I'm OMAC! Evacuate this section! I'm going to destroy it!

Destroy, Evacuate, Omac, Section, Sections

I draw people as I see them. I'm not involved in making artistic masterpieces. My, my object is to mirror people and I've always done that.

Done, Mirrors, People, See

All human beings have the capability of doing what they want, what they're attracted to.

Attracted, Beings, Capability, Humans, Want

The artist is the lowest form of life on the rung of the ladder. The publishers are usually businessmen who deal with businessmen. They deal with promotional people. They deal with financial people. They deal with accountants. They deal with people who work on higher levels. They deal with tax people, but have absolutely no interest in artists, in individual artists, especially very young artists.

Artist, Individual, Ladders, People, Young

My anatomy was self-taught. I feel everybody has that ability. I drew instinctively. Mine was an instinctive style.

Ability, Anatomy, Instinctive, Self, Style, Taught

I taught myself how to draw, and I soon found out it was what I really wanted to do. I didn't think I was going to create any great masterpieces like Rembrandt or Gauguin. I thought comics was a common form of art, and strictly American in my estimation, because America was the home of the common man - and show me the common man that can't do a comic. So comics is an American form of art that anyone can do with a pencil and paper.

America, Art, Estimation, Home, Man, Men

I had to make a living. I was a married man. I had a wife. I had a home. I had children. I had to make a living. That's the common pursuit of every man.

Children, Home, Make, Men, Wife

I've done things that I wouldn't ordinarily seem capable of doing. And I've proven myself in situations where there's life and death at stake. And so, I can live with myself knowing that it's not a matter of guts or anything like that. It's a matter of willingness to go the length, to transcend yourself.

Death, Done, Guts, Knowing, Life And Death, Live

A man is entitled to draw things in his own style. I didn't hurt Superman. I made him powerful. I admire Superman, but I've got to do my own style.

Entitled, Hurt, Men, Powerful, Things

I would've liked to have been a better businessman when I was younger. And of course, I couldn't, because it wasn't part of my atmosphere. I never lived with accountants, I never lived with lawyers.

Atmosphere, Businessman, Course, Lawyer, Lawyers

It's not in the draftsmanship, it's in the man. Like I say, a tool is dead. A brush is a dead object. It's in the man. If you want to do it, you do it.

Like, Man, Men, Say, Tools, Want

The average politician was crooked. That was my ambition, to be a crooked politician. I'd see them in these restaurants, and they'd all hold these conferences. I'd see politicians who were supposed to be on opposite sides of issues all together at one table.

Ambition, Average, Conferences, Opposite, Opposites, Restaurants

Every father was his own man. He did what he wanted. If your mother went shopping, your father never went with her.

Father, Man, Men, Mother, Shopping

Everybody was wary. This was a time when communists marched through the streets, waving flags and shouting. The unions did the same thing so you began to associate them.

Associate, Communist, Everybody, Flags, Time, Unions

A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth.

Character, Characters, Contrive, Contrived, Element, Elements

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