Despite the commercial success of Captain America, Kirby was not paid more than the average comic book artist of the time: 75 dollars per week. This helped establish co-creators Simon and Kirby among the most famous comic creators of the time. Despite its strong similarities to an earlier MLJ Comics character called The Shield, Captain America became the most successful of the two characters and the fist two issues of his title were major best sellers of the comic book medium. The new character was called Captain America and debuted in 1941. Once securing a publisher, Simon asked Kirby to join him in working on the character. This was at the time rare, since most comic book characters were featured in anthology titles. He had the idea for a new patriotic superhero and managed to convince Timely publisher Martin Goodman that the new hero would work as the star of a solo comic book. Simon was soon hired as an editor for Timely Comics (later renamed to Marvel Comics) and was also interested in contributing stories. Kirby accepted and the duo ended up working together for the following decades. He had seeking for a partner to work on the second issue of Blue Bolt and was impressed enough with Kirby's work to offer him the partnership. Simon was producing stories for various publishers and had recently created a superhero called Blue Bolt for Novelty Press. While working at Fox, Kirby was acquainted with Joe Simon. He was not credited as an artist, the credit going to the non-existent "Charles Nicholas". Kirby's first superhero stories were Blue Beetle stories. Kirby found work at one of the publishers of the time, Fox Features Syndicate. By that time comic book publishing companies were starting to hire writers and artists directly, instead of simply buying stories. The Eisner and Iger Studio dissolved for uncertain reasons by 1940.
#Jack kirby series
Under various pseudonyms, Kirby contributed artwork to series in various genres, including humor, science fiction, swashbucklers, and Westerns. The Studio was one of a number of pioneering companies selling completed comic book stories and artwork to the fledgling publishing companies of the time. Kirby soon joined the staff at the Eisner and Iger Studio, working under co-founders Will Eisner and Jerry Iger. In the late 1930s and early 1940s, the comic book medium was taking off and there were many available positions for writers and artists interested in working in the medium. He quit after a short period, feeling dissatisfied with the factory-like conditions at Fleischer. He worked as an in-betweener in animated shorts, drawing intermediate frames between two images to give the appearance that the first image evolves smoothly into the second image. He then briefly joined the field of animation and was hired by the Fleischer Studios. He was hired by the Lincoln Newspaper Syndicate to work on comic strips and advice cartoons.
#Jack kirby professional
After publishing a few works in outlets for amateur artists, Kirby entered the world of professional cartooning in 1936. He was interested in producing quantities of artwork at a rapid rate and "get things done", while the Institute taught students to devote large amounts of time to a single piece of artwork. According to Kirby, his personal philosophy did not agree with that of the school. At age 14, Kirby enrolled in Pratt Institute, a prestigious school for illustrators. His professional name "Jack Kirby" was possibly chosen in reference to Rollin Kirby (1875-1952), an influential political cartoonist, who had won three Pulitzer Prizes in the 1920s.
He cited among his main influences comic strip artists Milton Caniff (1907-1988), Hal Foster (1892-1982), and Alex Raymond (1909-1956), who were all pioneers of the adventure genre in comic strips. He was mostly self-taught as an artist, having started by studying newspaper artwork from comic strip artists and political cartoonists. He developed an interest in drawing at an early age. Both his parents were Austrian-Jewish immigrants. He was a son of garment factory worker Benjamin Kurtzberg and his wife Rose Bernstein. In 1917, Kirby was born under the name "Jacob Kurtzberg" on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. Jack "The King" Kirby was an influential comic book writer and artist, particularly famous for creating or co-creating some of the most famous characters for both DC Comics and Marvel Comics.
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