These handmade traces are not visible when printed at reduced size, so it’s a very different and thrilling experience to look at Kirby’s comics art in its raw state. This process produces the sensation of looking at original drawings exactly as created by Kirby and his inkers with all the pencil marks, corrections, different pens and inks and other artefacts visible. All the pages produced for issues 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, and 8 have been photographically scanned in colour at very high resolution and reproduced actual size, on heavyweight paper. The Jack Kirby New Gods: Artist’s Edition is a large hardcover at the now familiar dimensions of 430 x 304 mm – the standard size of a page of original art produced for DC and Marvel comics – presenting six of the first eight issues of New Gods, written and drawn by Jack Kirby, inked by Vince Colletta and Mike Royer. They made up for the wait with 168 pages from the biggest and most crucial of Jack Kirby’s visionary projects after leaving Marvel comics: New Gods. IDW Publishing’s Artist’s Edition series of books had been around for awhile before they got around to a collection of original art from arguably the single most significant creator in American superhero comics.
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