Jack Kirby

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q311607: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by of 6 people by that name, the one in film or television.

Counted as other. The films the hosts said they were tied to, which the two lists below run through too: (comics); comics, not a film. Count them as writer (1 film) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968): 2 lines

  1. unmapped (led to Fourth World) · them, directly: 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ Jack Kirby (the host's read). Kirby's Fourth World is said to come out of his 2001 work.
    “Yeah, and I think like 4th world essentially comes out of it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 2:12:31 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (comic adaptation) · them, directly: 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ Jack Kirby (the host's read). Kirby's Marvel series began by adapting the movie in its first three issues, then went its own way.
    “Like, the 1st 3 issues are the movie... and he went bananas with it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 2:12:44 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Avengers: Infinity War (2018): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · them, directly: Jack Kirby ⇒ Avengers: Infinity War (the host's read). Kirby's cosmic creations at Marvel, Galactus and the Silver Surfer, are the ancestors of this material.
    “he creates galactus and silver surf and all these parrots”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:56:25 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Writing (1) everyone in writing

Other (2) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Avengers: Infinity War → Jack Kirby. The Vormir sequence is a perfect distillation of what the cosmic Marvel comic illustrations looked like.
    “the Vormir sequence is such a perfect distillation of what those cosmic Marvel illustrations looked like”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:53:08 · John Hodgman (0.50 sure it was them)

lineage (3)

  1. lineage (lineage): Jack Kirby → John Ford. Kirby was reticent about being an artist like the closed-off older directors; Lucas and Spielberg broke that mold.
    “Jack Kirby was the John Ford of comics.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 0:30:47 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (comic adaptation): 2001: A Space Odyssey → Jack Kirby. Kirby's Marvel series began by adapting the movie in its first three issues, then went its own way.
    “Like, the 1st 3 issues are the movie... and he went bananas with it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 2:12:44 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (lineage): Jack Kirby → Avengers: Infinity War. Kirby's cosmic creations at Marvel, Galactus and the Silver Surfer, are the ancestors of this material.
    “he creates galactus and silver surf and all these parrots”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:56:25 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (analogy): Jack Kirby → Roger Corman. Kirby, middle-aged, chasing youth culture with cosmic motorcycle gangs was like Roger Corman and the acid.
    “He was like Roger Corman being like, I don't know, the motorcycles and the acid.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:58:00 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (led to Fourth World): Jack Kirby → 2001: A Space Odyssey. Kirby's Fourth World is said to come out of his 2001 work.
    “Yeah, and I think like 4th world essentially comes out of it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 2:12:31 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Jack Kirby: Kirby's Fourth World: assigned to Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen as a punishment, he smuggled in the New Gods, and made the Black Racer, a man in medieval armor on space skis.
    “He was a he was a black man wearing medieval armor on space skis.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:55:23 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)