Art by Michael Kaluta, 1974.
Scott Edelman has written a wonderful elegy for the future as it was imagined in the past, for his contribution to HiLobrow's 4CP Friday series.
A possibly outlandish assertion I made about Jack Kirby in my 4CP FAQ has filtered into discussions at HiLobrow and The Comics Journal, so I thought I'd better provide an image to support this claim:
[Kirby] embraced the underlying chaotic, radioactive dots and force fields of the printed page, and he enlarged them into entire galaxies and negative zones. When the Fantastic Four dove into another dimension, they were diving into comic books themselves, shooting past four-color planetoids and through the wavy energy of bleedy black ink. Kirby’s cosmic crackles are benday dots that have gone supernova and collapsed into black holes.
Over at HiLobrow, Matthew Battles has collected his favorite 4CP shadow images and explained what he likes about them. Thanks, HiLobrow!
