KING KIRBY
Tue. March 9, 2004Categories: Abstract Dynamics
More Kirby, cos I love it.
Giganticism…
Enormous machinery….
Verging on the abstract…
Easy to forget the rough and ready way in which Kirby rendered characters whose image has been smoothed out and standardized over the years. Kirby was a PULP artist in every respect. Check the way his Thing looks as if it is only partly formed, as if it is composed of some amorphous pulpy matter.
I like how you use pulp in two consecutive sentences, but with completely different meanings.
Yeh, it’s what we call a pun — note the use of the term ‘in every respect’….
although you could make a tortured zeugma of it instead: ‘his characters seemed to be wrought from, and as an artist he himself was, pure pulp.’
re the child/toy interface – Dyou think Kirby’s style is sometimes a sort of magical reversion to childhood (the gigantism, perspectives from below, plasmatic forms)?