I feel like an independent man, and I am. This is the kind of feeling I always wanted. You can rarely get that... Well, I could rarely get that in the early part of my life.
Jack KirbyThe people who worked in comics were terrific guys. I had a good association with them, and I enjoyed comics for that very reason.
Jack KirbyI draw people as I see them. I'm not involved in making artistic masterpieces. My, my object is to mirror people and I've always done that.
Jack KirbyI hated to fight all the time just to enjoy my day. Fighting wasn't the kind of thing that I enjoyed, but I grew to enjoy it because I did it so long.
Jack KirbyI was being brought up on peasant stories; my mother came from Europe and she'd been a peasant and that was the area where the Frankensteins and the Draculas came from and it was entertainment for the people. Nobody had TV, and that was the way peasants would entertain themselves, by telling these stories.
Jack Kirby