Kirby Museum Receives Major Gift of Original Jack Kirby Art

The Jack Kirby Museum and Research Center (kirbymuseum.org) announced today that Richard Howell has donated a significant number of pages of original art by Jack Kirby from the legendary Howell/Kalish collection to the Museum’s permanent collection. Howell is a comic book writer, artist, and editor; co-founder of Claypool Comics; a Kirby scholar; and a longtime collector of comic art. “Jack Kirby has been an inspiration in my own comic art and storytelling for as long as I remember,” said Richard Howell. “I want these pages to be seen and studied, and giving them to the Jack Kirby Museum was the right way to do that.” “This gift represents a great selection of Kirby’s work from several major periods of his career. It is a significant addition to our permanent collection and will provide a strong foundation for our upcoming exhibitions and programs in the years ahead,” said Rand Hoppe, Director of the Jack Kirby Museum and Research Center. The gift comprises more than 50 pages and is the largest donation of original Kirby artwork the Museum has received. It spans his industry-defining work at Marvel in the 1960s, including Fantastic Four, X-Men, and Thor, through his mid-1970s work ...