Hey everybody, this is Rob Leifeld. Welcome to the show. Welcome to Rob's observations. We are going to have a blast today. This is one of my favorite topics. I can't believe we have taken so long to get here, but I am excited to dive in to the art of comic books. That's what we're going to be talking about today is the

art of comic books. I mean, come on. Without art, there are no comic books. This is, the art of

comic books is why I got into comic books. And without the pictures, you're reading novels,

something that some writers would be best to be reminded of when they give us

endless jabber fests of people talking, because the magic of comics is in the visuals. It always has

been, it always will be. The absolute magic of all things comic books is from the variety of amazing artists who have combined

to give us so many different worlds and characters and designs and pictures and i've i've said before

um when you are sitting in your chair watching the latest marvel movie the the MCU, especially the last, you know, five years

when they were wrapping up headed towards the endgame Infinity War saga. So when I go see

those Marvel movies, what stands out to me, what I see first, what I see foremost, is the

artwork of Jack Kirby. Jack Kirby's designs on Thor Ragnarok are everywhere.

They are in the people standing in the Grand Master's Palace.

They are people that are in the stadium.

When Hulk and Thor are fighting, it's Heela, it's Loki, it's everything you see on Asgard.

It's all of Asgard.

I mean, Jack Kirby, his designs, his art is so prevalent in all of these films. And then if you get to Thanos, now you're in a Jim Starlin drawing. Okay. Now you're looking at Jim Starlin visuals. But when you think of that Jack Kirby visualized all those costumes, Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, you know, I mean, every

character that you have reveled in was put to pencil by Jack Kirby. Now, how did he do it? He did

it on paper, on giant oversized Bristol board sheets, which is traditionally how we draw the comic books.

That is what I've been working on since I broke in.

11 by 17 has been the standard size since before I broke in, but there used to be oversized

pages.

I don't have the exact dimensions, but when you see them, you'll see it's almost two 11 by 17 pages

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