Jack Kirby
Kirby's drawings, and triode of other celebrated comic book artists like SpiderMan co-creator Steve Ditko, are displayed in museums as masterpieces of Pop art and are sought by collectors worldwide. Original artworks by these masters can sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars a pop. in 2011, a copy of Action Comics #1, which saw Superman appear on its cover for the first time ever in a drawing by Joe Shunter, sold for a record $2,161,000.
"Each issue of [Kirby's] Captain America," notes British comic book author Grant Morrison in his excellent of the genre Supergods. Our World in the Age history of of the Superbero,was kinetic, brutally overwrougrit and sensationalistic. Each cover featured a new tableau of imminent superatrooity [including one on wnioh] Captain America launones himself tnrougb a wall on a motoroyole, destroying a portrait of Hitler on the way and simultaneously repelling a bail of bullets with hie Stars and Stripes shield..." Kirbys drawings did not just invite the eye, they left off the page, grabbed you by the lapel, and engrossed you instantly in a kinetio adventure of flying oversize fists, entangled limbs, sinevvy muscles and a flurry of frenzied yet clearly delineated action. Bing! Bang! Pooow!
To the uninitiated, comic books may look dime a dozen. To the well-trained eye, however, no two artists of any talent ever appear the same. For instance, Carmine lnfantino, the artist behind the lightning-fast superhero The Flash and his equally nimble sidekick, Kid Flash, rendered the characters with inventive zest and inspired artistic flourish. He drew them with a jazzy, expressive brushstroke and a battery of new visual effects to suggest the strobing blur of a superfast man in motion," explains Morrison. "Taking tips from Marcel Duchamps Nude Descending a Staircase and the Futurist canvases of Umberto Boccioni, lnfantinos Flash could become a multilimbed composite image of a body in motion through time." The work of such masters has much to teach students and aspiring young artists: about perspective and depth, about Symbolism, about using gestures and facial expressions to convey subtle and not so subtle emotions, about building suspense in a single image or in a series of images. On art classes from primary school all the way up to college, teachers can draw on a wealth of comic book art to illustrate drawing techniques and to help their students hone their creative skills in illustration - skills that may serve them well one day by proving invaluable in several professions like graphic design and advertising. On Thailand, where many youngsters both adore comics and seem to have a natural knack for drawing and illustrating, comic books can become important tools of instruction.
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