In 1990, Gary Groth ran an interview with Jack Kirby in The Comics Journal #134. We'll be taking a look at the interview, but not yet. It's pretty amazing, at over 40 pages(!) it's a lot to break down. But in that same issue, he also interviewed Jack's long-time partner, Joe Simon. Much of the interview is given to the business of comics and to Joe's new book, The Comic Book Makers. A fair chunk is, quite naturally, dedicated to his relationship and work with Jack. The rest is well worth reading for those interested in comics history, but this is King Kirby month, so let's just excerpt those bits of the conversation, eh?
(Yeah, i know the text images below are presented rather large, but if i scale them down the system here scales by height, not width, so they keep shifting sizes making reading even more awkward. I'll take that into account when prepping the next scanned text piece.)
Bonus Pic: Here's the 1941 photo of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby they used for the introductory image on the article:
Joe Simon interviewed by Gary Groth for The Comics Journal #134
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