Wise words from the King of comics.
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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During the war, Kirby would be sent on recon missions so that he could draw what he’d seen to help troop advancement.
Imagine that. Going alone into a dangerous, unknown place, memorizing everything you could, and then recreating it on paper correctly, or else soldiers die.
Truly, a king.
He was The King for a reason.
I’d call him Based, but that’s kind of redundant, considering it’s Jack freaking Kirby.
[A fun Kirby anecdote from Stan Sakai…]
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My favorite Kirby story is when some Nazi sympathizers called him, saying if he didn’t stop making Captain America comics, they were going to come up to his office and beat him up, Jack says “I’m on my way” and by the time he’s outdoors, they’ve already left.
Watched the documentary, “Kirby At War”. It’s on Prime. Recommend a watch. The war trauma he carried flowed to the page.
BASED
“Hail to The King, Baby” 🍻
Why is the NSFW? What the fuck?
This post shouldn’t be NSFW, fuck Nazis
Just as simple as that. He’s the goat for a reason
Did Reddit admins put a nsfw tag on this? It’s pretty benign as far as quotes go.
WhEn DiD cOmiCs GeT sO PoLiTiCaL???
It is clear how he felt. No arguments here.
During the war yes. But after the war Kirby had a lot of more interesting political takes on Facism. The new gods is the prefect example of the cost of fighting against facism but why we must continue to do it.
“When did Jack Kirby go Woke?” /s
Jack was a god…
Something that every last sane person agrees with
The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi, and isn’t it our duty to help people be their best selves?
That’s politics enough for me.
Increasingly relevant!
The United States has somehow forgotten that.
I would love to see the King use Musk and Trump as an ashtray.
Words to live by!
Always punch Nazis. Thanks, Jack!
This is a lesson that still applies to this day.
As it should be
Fuck yes.
>On occasion the Timely office would get phone calls and letters from Nazi sympathizers threatening the creators of Captain America. Once, while Jack was in the Timely office, a call came from someone in the lobby. When Kirby answered, the caller threatened Jack with bodily harm if he showed his face. Kirby told the caller he would be right down, but by the time Jack reached street level, there was no one to be found.
[https://www.tcj.com/dragged-in-the-dust/](https://www.tcj.com/dragged-in-the-dust/)
Love this so much, considering tomorrow I have to reply to an email describing what I did at my job last week in 5 bullet points and send to DOGE. I wish we had more people like Kirby around. The current state of affairs makes me so sad and depressed tbh
I read a lot of Kirby’s written/drawn work last year and the symbolism and his messaging was not lost on me
Normalize *this.*
The King.
And now if you punch a nazi you are charged with a crime *sigh*
hes got a point.
what a lad! knew how to make people smile and stand for what is right!
Fuckin’ A, Jack.
I would not want to fight real life Ben Grimm at any age
Oh boy, need that karma