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Kirby's Dreamland 'movie' trailer is the stuff of nightmares

Tue, Aug 25 | from Joystiq
The Kirby we know and love is "one tough cream puff," but in this short from the mind of one MB McClain, he's a serial killer who ingests his victims in order to absorb their souls. His lovable antagonist from the games, King Dedede? He's a grizzled detective who vows to capture Kirby ... dead or al...

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TripleSpeedRunners take on Nintendo trio for charity

The speed-runs kick off this Friday at 7PM ET sharp.TripleSpeedRunners take on Nintendo trio for charity originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. The speed-runs kick off this Friday at 7PM ET sharp.TripleSpeedRunners take on Nin...
Wed, Oct 14 | from Smash Gamers

TripleSpeedRunners take on Nintendo trio for charity

Harnessing the power of Nintendo franchises for charity, the folks at TripleSpeedRunners will be spending 48 hours this weekend speed-running through games from the Donkey Kong, Star Fox, and Kirby series. Live streaming of the event will be handled on the crew's website, with live com...
Wed, Oct 14 | from Joystiq

Some Lettering by Howard Ferguson

In this pursuit I like to assemble images of the letters from a single story. Of course there is always a certain amount of variation in the letters but I try to select somewhat typical examples. For these samples I only select letters from captions and balloons that are not bold or oversized.
Fri, Oct 9 | from Jack Kirby Museum & Research Center

Art of Romance, Chapter 20, Romance Still Matters

August 1952 – October 1952: Young Romance #48 – #50, Young Love #36 – #38, Young Brides #1) Number of Romance Titles 1947 – 1954 (the period covered in this chapter is shaded in blue) Simon and Kirby not only created the romance genre of comics, they also made quite a bit of money from it quite [......
Fri, Sep 11 | from Jack Kirby Museum & Research Center

Happy Jack Kirby Day

Long time Kirby associate and biographer Mark Evanier has a short note and an old photo. Check out Kirby-Vison for some Kirby inspired artwork and Kirby Kinetics for a look at his story-telling. Bully has hourly posts about Kirby in comics and on film.
Mon, Aug 31 | from Jack Kirby Museum & Research Center

Jack Kirby, Fanboy

Red Raven (August 1940), art by Jack Kirby Somewhere around February 1940 (calendar dates) Joe Simon left his position as editor for Fox Comics and became Timely’s first comic book editor. It would seem that the first thing Joe did on arriving at Timely was to produce a new title, Red Raven C...
Fri, Aug 28 | from Jack Kirby Museum & Research Center

Jack Kirby’s First Flight

Mystery Men #10 (May 1940) Wing Turner, art by Jack Kirby I recently posted on a couple of stories Simon and Kirby did for Prize Comics early in their collaboration (Ted O’Neil). Flying stories were not a big part of Simon and Kirby repertoire (but see The Milton Caniff Connection) and so I th...
Thu, Aug 6 | from Jack Kirby Museum & Research Center

Club Nintendo Japan updates with flying Kirby and more

Nintendo of Japan just updated its Club Nintendo rewards shop with a bunch of new exclusive items that will no doubt have you crying into your canvas Wiimote storage box. The most eye-catching new item is the 350-Coin Kirby flying disc, which looks just like a flat Kirby made out of nylon.
Thu, Jul 23 | from Joystiq

The Shorts DS game draws our attention

Kirby Canvas Curse started it, but in the last year there has been an explosion of games that mix traditional platforming with user-created platforms. The Chase: Felix Meets Felicity did it, and the upcoming Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter, MarkerMan Adventures (also published by Short...
Wed, Jul 15 | from Joystiq