Kirby in the LRB

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Did anyone else read the article in the London Review of Books in which Jonathon Lethem reminisces about his childhood and adolescent idolisation of Jack Kirby? It's very evocative, and makes me wonder whether something similar could be done (by me, for instance) about all the comics I read when I was a lad.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 19 April 2004 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Is it online anywhere? Any chance of a link?

Theres a great Geoff Dyer piece about his boyhood love of comics (especially Marvel) which ends in a rhapsodic passage where he compares Michaelangelo (I think) and his work on the ceiling of an Italian Church/cathedral - not the Sistine Chapel - with Kirby...its in his essay collection Anglo-English Attitudes.

― David Nolan (David N.), Monday, 19 April 2004 23:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Lethem link: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n08/leth01_.html

― David Nolan (David N.), Monday, 19 April 2004 23:52 (twenty-two years ago)

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