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Jack Kirby drawn by Drew Friedman

David Pescovitz at 9:16 am Fri, Jan 11, 2013

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The world's finest portrait artist Drew Friedman's take on comics legend Jack Kirby.

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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  • UncaScrooge

    Evan Dorkin speaks on behalf of Jack Kirby.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/PipLagenta Pip_R_Lagenta

    O.K., Drew Friedman’s portrait of Jack Kirby is better than mine, http://www.flickr.com/photos/pip_r_lagenta/4212941666/
    but I created mine years ago.  If Drew Friedman is going to catch up to me, he still has a lot of work to do.  Where is Drew Friedman’s portrait of Octavia E. Butler?  I ask you!

    • David Pescovitz

      That’s a terrific painting!!

  • liquidself

    He’s a two-fisted thinker!

  • http://vinnietesla.com/ Vinnie Tesla

    I didn’t know Friedman was capable of non-venomous portraiture!

  • aperturehead

    Even back in his purely black and white days, Drew Friedman was heavy-handed to say the least. His more recent colorized illustrations completely lack subtlety and break through into the world of the ham-fisted. I really think he should have allowed his career to come to an end after his bombastic Tor Johnson portraits. And why has Friedman put Jack Kirby in a kind of “grand universe” setting? It makes Kirby look like Wernher Van Braun. Throwing around phrases such as “world’s finest portrait artist” doesn’t make it so.

    • Halloween_Jack

       Do you know anything about Jack Kirby or his career or his particular focus on “cosmic” heroes?

  • kiptw

    My opinion on Friedman has changed a couple of times. I now take his works on their individual merits. I’ll agree he’s generally a fine portrait artist, but this one doesn’t do it for me. It looks like Nixon, and I don’t think Mr. Kirby wanted to be Tricky Dick.

  • hyperfocal

    I didn’t know Jack had such a colossal head.

  • Halloween_Jack

    I like it. It’s pretty restrained for Friedman, and shows Kirby in a contemplative mood, which is pretty rare if not unheard of among artistic portrayals of him (including self-portraits).

    • Andrew Singleton

      Dunno who Friedman is so I’m just taking it as it’s own picture. I like it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/kai.cable Kai Cable

    looks like Stan Lee… just sayin’