tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25254614.post8107968025394114405..comments2024-03-23T23:46:29.024-07:00Comments on The Fabuleous Fifties: To (Kir)by Or Not To (Kir)byGer Apeldoornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03633862833036214748noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25254614.post-87643894189432792692014-12-15T12:24:37.424-08:002014-12-15T12:24:37.424-08:00Let's start with saying that a lot of things a...Let's start with saying that a lot of things are possible. Not everything is probably, though. In the working style of Smon and Kirby free for all jam sessions were out. Everything was tightly controled (one would assume by Joe Simon). Even when diverse hands jumped in on a late minute job, functions or pages were assigned to certain people. In this case, Jack Kirby has said many times that he liked doing the first and alternate pages, putting in as much of his own influence on some pages and letting the rest go - so the reader wouldn't notice the odd page being 'off'. Going by the timing my guess is that this was a try-out job by Meskin, around the time he was losing his work at DC r knew he wold be losing it, but before he started working full time with Jerry Robinson (why do I keep saying James, when I know it's Jerry). There is enough of Mesin in some of the faces (especially later on in the story) for me to think he did the pencilling and I don't think Kirby wold have provided lay-outs for someone as capable as Meskin.<br />Ger Apeldoornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03633862833036214748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25254614.post-17369927230023018412014-12-15T10:14:44.371-08:002014-12-15T10:14:44.371-08:00Looks like Kirby layouts/roughs.
Many "camera...Looks like Kirby layouts/roughs.<br />Many "camera angles" (especially panels involving perspective) and faces look "Kirbyesque".<br />Could Meskin have been doing inks over someone else's full pencils on Kirby layouts?<br />The 1940s-50s NYC artist scene was famous for "jam sessions" and artists helping each other out to meet deadlines...back when deadlines actually meant something.Britt Reidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07245579677452948620noreply@blogger.com