Kid ... Comics will break your heart.
Interpretation
Comics evoke deep emotional connections, often leading to heartbreak through their powerful narratives.
Jack Kirby's quote highlights the profound impact that comics can have on their readers. Through storytelling and art, comics can express complex emotions and experiences, leading to a sense of heartbreak as readers become attached to characters and their journeys. This phrase signifies not just the entertainment value of comics, but also their ability to resonate at a deeply emotional level, mirroring real-life struggles and joys.
In practice
In a discussion about the emotional depth of comic book stories.
I taught myself how to draw, and I soon found out it was what I really wanted to do. I didn't think I was going to create any great masterpieces like Rembrandt or Gauguin. I thought comics was a common form of art, and strictly American in my estimation, because America was the home of the common man - and show me the common man that can't do a comic. So comics is an American form of art that anyone can do with a pencil and paper.
Superman is going to live forever. They'll be reading Superman in the next century when you and I are gone. I felt, in that respect, I was doing the same thing. I wanted to be known. I wasn't going to sell a comic that was going to die quickly.
It's not in the draftsmanship, it's in the man. Like I say, a tool is dead. A brush is a dead object. It's in the man. If you want to do it, you do it.
I've never done anything half-heartedly; it's a disservice to me and the audience if I do it half-heartedly.
If you think a man draws the type of hands that you want to draw, steal βem. Take those hands.
I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth.
I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale
While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate.
A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.
There is a lot of propaganda about opera singers not being able to act. That's not necessarily true and hasn't been true for a very long time. And certainly there were those instances when singers were told they need to fit into a certain size dress. Of course, women. Men? They just make the costume bigger.
When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked.
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