Go Read It

Ben Schwartz, who has written some of the best mainstream press articles about comics, writes about the new biographies of comic book and strip artists, including my upcoming book on Jack Kirby. The piece contains some awkward phrasing that I assume occurred in the editing stages: One section makes it seem like The Complete Dick Tracy is a reprinting of Kirby's work. Also, I'm usually pretty diligent about referring to partners as co-creators so I can't believe I said that Jack created Captain America and didn't say he co-created it with Joe Simon. And lastly, I'm not supervising the reprinting of Jack's Fourth World material at DC…just contributing advice and afterwords. Other than those minor quibbles, it's a great piece.