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Robservations with Rob Liefeld

Jack Kirby! The King of Comics!

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

Comic Book Industry, Comic Books, Rob Liefeld, Visual Arts, Arts, Comics, Comic Artists, Books

4.8743 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

The single most dominant force in the history of comic books! No one has had greater impact than JACK “THE KING” KIRBY, the architect of the Marvel Universe, his influence continues to shape pop culture to this day. Wether introducing the world to CAPTAIN AMERICA in World War 2 or imagining the birth of the Marvel Universe, Jack never stopped amazing comic readers young and old! He roared back to prominence at Marvel in the late 1970’s with titles such as The Eternals, Devil Dinosaur & Machine Man. Rob takes you through his resurgence and shares his personal memories, experiences and adventures with the most important figure in the history of comic books!

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, welcome back to the land of Robeservations. I am Rob Leifeld. This is my joint that we share,

0:14.3

where we talk comics and pop culture, and mostly comics and pop culture and everything that I have

0:20.7

loved and consumed since my childhood

0:23.7

that saw me create a lifelong addiction to comic books. And we have shared many times. I'll remind you,

0:32.0

I started this journey in 1974, 75. That's when I started really getting into comic books buying them discovering that

0:41.2

every 30 days a comic book was going to arrive on my spinner rack at the liquor store the 7-11

0:47.0

the market it created my habit my lawn mowing money my allowances I would pinch the

0:53.8

food money that I was given for hot lunches.

0:57.3

There is no lengths. I would not go to make sure that I had money for my comic book addiction,

1:02.5

which was like as powerful as anything I have ever encountered. It took me all the way into a career

1:08.3

in comic books where I have made comics for the last 34 years. Cable, X-Force, Deadpool, Domino,

1:16.3

start-in-image comics with my brothers, you know, Youngblood Brigade, best-selling Captain

1:22.4

America run, Avengers, Rejects, Fighting American, so many.

1:30.2

It's just been just a fantastic journey

1:33.1

and we are still in a fan point of view,

1:36.7

a fan, fans eye view because that's how I recall so much of this

1:41.7

and what I still carry with me.

1:43.1

And today we are to tackle maybe the

1:45.8

greatest subject that we could ever tackle. I don't know what took me so long, but this is

1:50.5

going to be a great hour that we're going to spend together talking about none other than

1:56.1

the king of comics. The king of the comic books. the king of comic book world universe Jack Kirby

2:05.7

Jack the king Kirby Jack the damn king Kirby okay this man is a mountain all

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