The Marvel Age of Comics Tumblrposted this varlet from hug drug - MEN # 9 by Jack Kirby and Chic Stone , and you could still see Kirby ’s moulding notes , where he spells out each panel ’s subtext beat by pulse .
Since the line at the top and bottom of the page are difficult to read , here ’s the copy :
HEY ! CUT IT OUT !
WHAT ’S WITH THIS HEAVY HAMMER ?
I’LL TOSS IT decent BACK
LOOK OUT !
THIS ISN’T YOURS
If you hunt around the cyberspace , you could observe tons of Kirby page with these perimeter notes . For example , Brian Bendis posted this pagefrom THOR # 175 by Jack Kirby and Bill Everett :
For common people conversant with the“Marvel Method”of strip scripting , these eminence should add up as no surprise . After all , it was common for artists to layout and draw a comic before the writer even began thinking about the dialogue — sometimes from an exceedingly approximate history thought ( and sometimes on their own ) . These government note would have told the writer what sort of dialogue to include in each panel . Looking at Kirby ’s border notes on the page , however , offer an especially clear signified of what a lancinate detergent builder of stories he was , crafting pieces that are compelling even before you take the negotiation .
Norris Burroughs at the Jack Kirby Museum wrote an particularly interesting post earlier this year aboutwhat the note on Kirby ’s pages recount us about his growth as an creative person and writer . Burroughs suppose that he ab initio believed that Kirby commence form consort to the Marvel Method with Stan Lee around 1965 , but a series of discarded pages from 1962 had him rethinking that theory .
Burroughs posts a handful of pages that Kirby displume up and shake off in the trash after a meeting with Lee . Unlike these pages , they contain no Kirby margin notes , but some of the pages do include notes from Lee . Burroughs posits that this mean that , as far back as 1962 , Kirby was plotting and lay out narrative , and then bring them into the office so he could maneuver Lee through the dialog process . By include margin bank note on his Page , however , he could simply send the pages to the writer , no office visit necessary .
A varlet from hug drug - MEN # 9 by Jack Kirby and Chic Stone[The Marvel Age of Comics viaJohn Hodgman ]
write Comic Books Marvel Style[John Rozum ]
Margin Notes part 2[The Jack Kirby Museum ]
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