Kirbrick

Not too long ago, I wrote a post mentioning a great pairing of a cartoonist and a filmmaker I both admire; today, on the culture site hilobrow.com ("Middlebrow is not the solution"), I have a short essay on another pairing of a great cartoonist and a great filmmaker, although the results from that one -- Jack Kirby's adaptation of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey -- are more decidedly mixed. Here's the link to the essay:

http://hilobrow.com/2011/03/11/kirby-vs-kubrick/

The essay is attached to a series hosted by hilobrow called Kirb Your Enthusiasm, in which several writers took on a panel from Jack Kirby's staggeringly prodigious oeuvre, meditating on his affects and effects. I highly recommend the series -- a great exegesis on a peculiar and influential artist, in bit-size increments. Each essay has a scan of the panel in question, which you can click on and blow up to pseudo-Lichtensteinian proportions:

Kirb Your Enthusiasm