Eisner mentioned he was uncomfortable calling Kirby someone with heavy artistic intent. I paraphrase, but Eisner felt Jack was mostly concerned with hitting his page count, telling good stories, and keeping his family fed. Not pursuing some aesthetic ideal -… — Glen David Gold Copy Share Image
“We know how ninety-nine percent of the universe works," he told Carter shortly after they met, "and that's the clockworks, that's what we build… — Glen David Gold Copy Share Image
“He felt people were never intentionally beastly or malicious, but they were pompous and foolish; awful decisions were made by men divorced from their… — Glen David Gold Copy Share Image
“Each piece of the set was on a winch and pulley, bag-dropped, counterbalanced by nests of fifty-pound bags of sand. The setup was called… — Glen David Gold Copy Share Image
“Oh, dear God, you don't actually have a brain, do you, it's more a filigreed spiderweb, with little chambers in it where trained monkeys… — Glen David Gold Copy Share Image
There were never moments in your life when you actually saw something end, for whether you knew it or not something else was always… — Glen David Gold Copy Share Image
“He thought of the boys and girls who looked for sweethearts at Mountain View Cemetery, and chorus girls who met their beaux behind scrim,… — Glen David Gold Copy Share Image
“He had learned to play his instrument with the same joyless precision that barefoot waifs exercised in stoking the coal fires of a debtors’… — Glen David Gold Copy Share Image
Eisner mentioned he was uncomfortable calling Kirby someone with heavy artistic intent. I paraphrase, but Eisner felt Jack was mostly concerned with hitting his… — Glen David Gold Copy Share Image
“His curse in life was to be attracted to people who understood him.” — Glen David Gold Copy Share Image
