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Jack Kirby

Comic book artist Jack Kirby (Jacob Kurtzberg), co-creator (with Joe Simon) of Captain America in the 1940s and (with Stan Lee) of the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, and the Hulk in the 1960s, died on this date in 1994.

A self-taught artist from the Lower East Side (his parents were immigrants from Austria), Kirby worked for a while in the Fleischer studios on Popeye cartoons, as a salaried artist at Fox Feature Syndicates, and then at Timely Comics (the predecessor to Marvel Comics), where in 1940 he launched Captain America.

The patriotic hero was so popular in an America at the brink of war that the second issue sold close to a million copies. Kirby and Simon also created a romance series, Young Romance and Young Love, which combined to sell more than two million copies of each issue and launched several other spin-offs and imitators.

Kirby’s most enduring impact, however, was with Marvel during the “Silver Age of Comics,” 1958-70, where he also lent his creative and supervisory hand to Thor, Iron Man, the Silver Surfer, Galactus, Magneto, and numerous other muscular, fantastic, psychologically complex characters.

He was one of three inaugural inductees into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1987.

I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing.

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  • sailorfish [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    me, drunk, ranting to my mom about how we replace electronics way too quickly, how horrible it is that pieces of clothing are worn 7 times on average before being trashed, the vimes' boots theory of socioeconomics, how we should switch to a 4 day work week, and how much i hate consumerism in general

    my mom, drunk, also against consumerism and happy to rant about how in her day people sewed themselves one nice dress and kept it for over a year, but wine makes her sleepy: "yes but shhhh"

    • superdoctorman [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Who the hell is buying clothes, wearing them seven times and then just tossing them?

      • sailorfish [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        "Fast fashion": https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-high-price-of-fast-fashion-11567096637 It's nuts right? Some random ad on YT mentioned it to me again today, and I was left seething lol. I don't even remember what the ad was for. I think I might wear some formal clothing 7 times before giving it to a second hand shop (like, if I wear it once a year), but I can't imagine doing that with any normal clothes

          • sailorfish [she/her]
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            4 years ago

            I'm 100% sure that's a big part of it. I don't want to shame individuals for buying cheap clothing and getting rid of it quickly. I'm lucky that I can generally buy a few pieces of clothing per year that will last me several years. (This is where the Vimes socioeconomic theory of boots came in lol.) But I think it's nuts that industry and fashion are geared towards selling us cheap things which are absolutely not durable, so we have even more incentive to replace them after a few wears.

      • sailorfish [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        My parents are from the USSR. It was a traumatic moment for my mom when she realised they were never gonna build communism. The fact that she's an anti-consumerist socdem who has only half-jokingly told me that I should vote for the Austrian communist party "because the neighbour said they were nice" makes he alright in my books lmao

          • sailorfish [she/her]
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            4 years ago

            I think I'm gonna vote for them next time tbh. Last time, I voted Green. But I'm so fucking fed up with how they've been acting in the coalition, and them towing Kurz's line re the asylum case is the last straw for me. I'm over it. Also the KPÖ speaker is a Slavistic linguist or sth lmao, I love it. It irritates me that they don't have a twitter page tho lol, get with the times, linguist!!!!

            • DerEwigeAtheist [she/her, comrade/them]
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              4 years ago

              I could theretically vote but there are a bunch of bureocratic hurdles in the way. And i don't really know how to climb them at the moment.

      • sailorfish [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        I haven't checked the study myself, but I've seen it quoted several times, e.g.: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-high-price-of-fast-fashion-11567096637 or in some YT ad I saw today which set me off lol. It's nuts right?

        Every day, millions of people buy clothes with nary a thought about the consequences. American shoppers snap up about five times more clothing now than they did in 1980. In 2018, that averaged 68 garments a year, the online firm Rent the Runway told the New Yorker. As a whole, the world’s citizens acquire some 80 billion apparel items annually. And on average—average—each piece will be worn seven times before getting tossed, according to a 2015 study by the British charity Barnado’s. In China, it’s just three times, says the Chinese fashion-rental platform Y Closet.