Friday, December 7, 2007


This is a great one. On the left, a panel from Jack Kirby's Marvel Comics adaptation of 2001: A SPACE ODDYSSEY. On the right, the poster artwork by Robert T. McCall it was based on. (There is no shot like this in the actual movie.) Note how close to the original Kirby's drawing is, and how much detail is retained.

Jack Kirby is one of the greatest comic artists of all time, and his 2001 is a really cool thing. He wrote and illustrated it himself, basing it on an early draft of the screenplay and the Clarke/Kubrick novel. So it's a valuable tool for those trying to figure the whole thing out.

I boosted this from Two Morrows, a publisher located here in Raleigh (and a design studio I did some freelance writing for years ago). John is a pretty major Kirby freak. Good for him.

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