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Jack Kirby torpedo dogs picked from his trash by Jim Woodring, via Tom Moody.

Francis Bacon's trash, auctioned.

Allan Stone, in the movie Who The #?&% Is Jackson Pollock, shows his Jackson Pollock painting that was taken from the East Hampton, Long Island garbage dump - "Everybody knew that Pollock dumped a lot of his unsuccessful things in, in the dump in, in East Hampton. You know, in those days, they weren’t, they weren’t worth anything really, you know?"

Calvin Tomkins on Robert Rauschenberg, in Off the Wall (page 85) - "sneaking into de Koonings studio when no one was there, he took a lot of photographs and stole a discarded drawing from the trash basket. 'it was just total idolizing,' he says"

cosmic

backboard.


birdbath.

Kirby Krackle.

Jack Kirby

Very happy to see Jack Kirby in the NYTimes on Sunday, and that the Masters of American Comics show has come to NYC; at the Jewish Museum and the Newark Museum (that's a pain, two different places). The Jewish Museum has a concurrent exhibition called Superheroes: Good and Evil in American Comics... Yay!

No Hal Foster or RF Outcalt, included... oh well, can't have everything. Versions of Outcalt's The Yellow Kid have shown up in my stuff... here and more literally here, for example. Kirby inspiration many many times.

Here is an interview with exhibition co-curator Brian Walker.

RELATED: Jack Kirby on anaba - 10/14/2004, 4/5/2005 (Jack Kirby and Grandma Moses should be in the Whitney Biennial), 7/14/2005, 12/13/2005… PLUS – the Meatballs of Others exhibition!!!

a job

I need a job. Ideally, I would like to work at an ice skating rink, but I will consider anything.

Look at that happy baby in front of the mural I painted for him and his twin brother last month. They now sleep in a submarine and can look out five different "porthole" windows to see fish, an octopus, a manatee, a turtle, a seahorse, and plant life. My favorite part to paint might have been the rivets around the windows; I kept thinking of how Jack Kirby might have painted metal, space, and Iron Man.

This was fun. Let me know if you would like a mural, or have any other job leads. I am seriously BROKE.

Meatballs in Space

Here you can see some of the great Jack Kirby's meatballs (in space).
Jack Kirby should be in museums. I feel a big connection between the prints of Japanese ukiyo-e artists like Hiroshige and Hokusai and Kirby - I wonder if he looked at them? Hey! Ukiyo-e is usually translated as "pictures of the floating world" and Kirby did pictures of floating worlds! That nails it!! I really like Kirby Krackle. This meatball probably comes closest to having Kirby Krackle.

RELATED: Mountain Man, Fairy Butler, and Sloth have all curated mini-exhibitions so I thought I would do the same. Please enjoy this Meatball Slideshow of work by Tom Moody, Pat Adams, Kandinsky, and Jack Kirby.

Jack Kirby

Jack Kirby is one of my favorite artists and a big influence. Why isn't this stuff in art museums yet? It will be soon. If I had any money, I would buy a Kirby. Where can I see one for real? Probably at a comic book convention. Am I the only one that thinks Kirby may have been influenced by Japanese prints? Especially Hokusai and Hiroshige. Lot of parallels between American comics and ukiyoe.