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Quote by Jack Kirby

“I was a good student in the subjects that I wanted to be good in. The curriculum in my section was excellent.”

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Jack Kirby was a renowned comic book artist, illustrator, and writer, best known for his work with Marvel and DC Comics. His creations include iconic characters and stories such as 'The Fantastic Four', 'The X-Men', 'Captain Marvel', and 'The New Avengers'. more

“I went to art school for about a year. I was born and raised in the Willamette Valley in Oregon into a middle-class family who didn't have the funds to say, "Here, kid. Here's your money for school." So I worked real hard during the summer and saved money and was able to go to school for a year and borrowed a little money which I paid back after that first year.”

“It was just too hard from my standpoint to apply myself properly for the lessons from art school and also work 6 hours a day at the Ben Paris restaurant in downtown Seattle. There was just no time to have a life.”

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Author:Mike Royer

“I sometimes look at the careers of other... I guess I could call them contemporaries or maybe close artists; you know, the 4 or 5 guys who go to New York City and get a loft and work together and use each other as models and that sort of thing and wait for years and years to get married. Maybe I just wasn't that definite.”

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Author:Mike Royer

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