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Essay: A Woman Of Valor.(Sheena the Queen of the Jungle)
A Woman Of Valor
Strong, vigilant, resourceful, and submissive to no one -- the author's ideal woman first appeared to him in a comic book.
Sheena the Queen of the Jungle popped up: tough and strong but, more importantly, beholden to no one. Sheena, the Valkyrie, and Red Sonja were unencumbered by any glasses-wearing, steno-pad-carrying secret identity. There was no unwitting, patronizing lunk of a boyfriend or superdate, no repressive cover story to get tangled in.2 They did not shy from a fight -- on the contrary, they relished conflict. And they demanded to be treated as equals, to whatever extent their mostly male writers and artists were willing to grant. As fond as I may be of this type of character, however, I'm obliged to concede that the Warrior Woman is, in its way, as sexist a cliche as Shrinking Violet (tininess), or Phantom Girl (insubstantiality), or Light Lass (rendering any substance to the condition of fluff). This is where Big Barda comes in. 8. Jack Kirby (born Jacob Kurtzberg in New York City in 1917) was a bit of a madman, a cultural magpie, self-taught, movie-crazy. He grew up scrapping on the Lower East Side. He had seen tough service under Patton. The harshness of the world and the wonder of the movies mingled freely in the comics that he drew. As he got older, his vision turned darker and darker; his sense of the indifference of a hostile universe to human fortune increased. More and more in his work at Marvel during the late '60s, vast primal forces of Good and Evil fought a perpetual war to whose combatants our earth was at best a bystander, ...
- Obituary: Jack Kirby
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London DENIS GIFFORD February 11, 1994 700+ words
Jacob Kurtzberg (Jack Kirby), cartoonist: born New York City 1917; married...make the reader duck. The artist who became Jack Kirby was born Jacob Kurtzberg in 1917 in a New York East Side tenement, son of a pieceworker in...
- Small talk with Tom Brevoort.(SATURDAY)(ZADZOOKS: COLLECTING COMICS)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times August 3, 2002 700+ words
...person's religious background is no longer something to hide. Stan Lee was originally Stanley Lieber, and Jack Kirby was Jacob Kurtzberg. During the 1940s, when they changed their names, all the way through the 1960s, there was a feeling that you had to...
- X-Men as J Men: the Jewish subtext of a comic book movie.(Critical Essay)
- Magazine article from: Shofar Baron, Lawrence September 22, 2003 700+ words
...experiences which shaped both their faith in American democracy and their fear of the demagogic appeal of antisemitism and racism Jacob Kurtzberg was born in 1917 to a family of Austrian Jews who had settled on the Lower East Side of New York. He recalled that he desperately...
- JACK KIRBY, 76; ARTIST FOR COMIC BOOKS.(CAPITAL REGION)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) February 8, 1994 700+ words
...and helped stretch the genre's traditionally short stories into the issue-length format of contemporary comics. Born Jacob Kurtzberg on Aug. 28, 1917, Mr. Kirby grew up in Manhattan and entered the comics industry in the 1930s.
- When nerdish boys dreamed up new comic-book heroes.(BOOKS)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times October 3, 2004 700+ words
...took the name Bob Kane, came from the Bronx, for example, and Captain America's artist, the great Jack Kirby (born Jacob Kurtzberg), was a kid from the Bowery. They also tended to be nerdish lads who found dates hard to come by and who spent a lot...
- Kryptic life of steel-drivin' man; John Henry tale inspired Superman, professor...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times July 26, 2006 700+ words
...Among these Jewish onlookers were Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, and Captain America co-creator Jacob Kurtzberg, also known as Jack "The King" Kirby. "Siegel and Shuster and Kirby were radicals of their time they saw themselves...
- Jack Kirby, comic books' superhero
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Michael Saunders, Globe Staff February 8, 1994 700+ words
...Calif., was 76. His characters had the larger-than-life boldness of his home city, New York, where he was born Jacob Kurtzberg in 1917. He began drawing in the 1930s, when most comics were quickly drawn trashy pulp serials. He was the bridge between...
- On the strange relationship between religion and comics.(CURRENT...
- Magazine article from: World and I Wecker, Menachem April 1, 2007 700+ words
...Eisner (The Spirit), Bob Kane (born Kahn) and Bill Finger (Batman), Martin Nodell (Green Lantern), Jack Kirby (Jacob Kurtzberg) and Joe Simon (Captain America), Stan Lee (Stanley Martin Lieber), who created Spiderman, and Jerome Siegel and...
