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Fantastic Four #55 cover at whatifkirby.com!

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Ferran Delgado

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You can see this historical cover at whatifkirby.com.

http://www.whatifkirby.com/gallery/comic-art-listings/fantastic-four-issue-55-cover

 

Kirbyff55cover.jpg

 

If you register, you can zoom it and see all the details. This is a sample:

 

KIRBYFF55cvrDetail.jpg

 

Below of this image at the site, you can suscribe to general updates and to comments of this particular piece.

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Ferran Delgado

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@Clem,

I was wrong, what it was exhibited at Marster of American Comics exhibition was a copy of the comic, not the original art of the cover. I tried unsuccesfully to delete the post... :-(

 

@Comickings,

It could be that I saw it in Bill's gallery since he has one of the best collections in CAF:

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryDetail.asp?GCat=915

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Ferran Delgado

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Can someone explain what "what if Kirby" means?

 

From http://www.whatifkirby.com/about

First launched in 2001, WiK was created for fans, collectors and historians of comic book creator, Jack Kirby to see what if comic art, originally inked for publication, could be recreated and reinked by other inkers. These other inkers also inked Kirby's pencils during his long career.

 

WiK was relaunched on August 28, 2010 in celebration of the anniversary of Jack Kirby's birthday. WiK now has many new features and content to further the site's mission of increasing awareness of who Jack Kirby was and his significance in inventing the comic book genre. The site now contains a large collection of comic book art scans in the gallery section. Built on a database, comic art can be search by inker, date, period, character, story or almost any criteria to narrow search results. Detailed pages of each page of comic art display the front and backs. With membership, members can look at the pages up close with the "Zoom Art" link. Audio commentary of some pages is added to provide additional information by historians or collectors. This is an invaluable tool for historians researching the works of Jack Kirby.

 

In addition, the original creations section is remixed with better quality scans. There you can compare Kirby's original pencils to what was inked for producing the comic book to recreated pencils and finally to the recreated inks.

 

This is a sample of the contents of the first version of the site:

http://www.whatifkirby.com/creations/journey-into-mystery-121-tales-asgard-page-2

 

Tom Kraft asked Mike Royer to ink the page working from a recreation of the original pencils (Mike doesn't like to ink over a blueprint or lightboxing). This page was originally ruined >ehem< inked by Colleta, so the spirit of the original site was to imagine how it would looked if a professional inker would ink it.

 

Right now there are only three samples of this kind of recreations, but the old site had dozens. Tom asked inkers like Royer, Sinnott, Ayers, McLeod or Theakston to collaborate, who worked in the past with Kirby. And some of these pieces were published in the Jack Kirby Collector.

 

Since now Tom Kraft is another Kirby Museum trustee, he's displaying in the site part of the Original Art Digital Archive:

http://kirbymuseum.org/oada

Many collectors and art dealers contributed to the site by borrowing their originals at the main cons to be scanned right there. If you have pieces by Kirby you can also contribute the Archive with high res scans. In the link you'll find the technical specifications.

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